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Ideal for photo enthusiasts with perfect taste for the latest features, the Canon SD870 has plenty of power to suit one’s needs. With its 3-inch silicon TFT 230,000 pixel screen, it becomes a convenient factor which consumers of this kind of product demand. SD870 is user-friendly with numerous auto-settings and convenient buttons for easy navigation. It is equipped with a wide-angle lens, an 8-megapixel sensor, and Optical Image Stabilization (OIS). This helps combat camera shake resulting to blurry images.

The DIGIC III processor is the brain of SD870, the gold standard on all new Canon digital cameras. It accounts for its faster start-up, faster auto-focus and quicker shutter response time. The chip design of Digic III improves the image quality of SD870, resulting in more battery life under typical shooting conditions.

Improved with a Genuine Face Detection technology, this Digital ELPH camera can properly detect around 8 faces in focus no matter where they are within the image. It ensures users the elimination of over-exposed faces. It also has a Red-Eye corrective feature that detects and subsequently corrects red-eye automatically during playback.

Since there is no internal memory, it has an added convenience. Canon SD870 can accommodate Multimedia MMC, MMC+, standard SD as well as the new SDHC memory cards. Users can stay mobile without the burden of carrying a handful of memory cards so as to capture high photo-taking adventures. Canon SD870 owners, therefore, can travel in sleek style.

The saddest change with this model is the omission of an optical viewfinder - done probably to give way to a larger screen. Another flaw is that there’s no convenient place to rest the user’s thumb. All the controls can be found on the right side of the camera, thereby, forcing the thumb to be on top of the right edge of the LCD screen. But if one is not annoyed with its camera settings, it is one of the best digital cameras in the market today.