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THE GOOD
Impressive performance and image quality; optical image stabilization; face detection.

THE BAD
No manual exposure controls; no optical viewfinder.

THE BOTTOM LINE
While the Canon PowerShot SD870 IS doesn't have an optical viewfinder or manual exposure controls, it captures beautiful images with its wide, 3.8x optical zoom lens and ranks among the top compact cameras we've seen.

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Average CNET Reader Rating: 7.5 out of 10

CNET Reader Reviews

  1. September 7, 2007 08:26

    4.0/5
    I been looking for a camera for a month now, I bought the Sony T100, Panasonic TZ3 and Canon TX1 and returned them all, you can read why on their own reviews in Cnet.com.

    I recently bought this camera and I guess I had to make some sacrifice...  read more »

    - fet123456

  2. September 6, 2007 02:11

    4.0/5
    Why do you guys keep saying sd cameras don't have exposure controls? WIth this camera (as with any other canon elph or sd) if you shoot in manual mode you can compensate exposure, with the -/+ slider under the ironically named "Exposure Compensation...  read more »

    - sergloewe

  3. October 6, 2007 06:59

    4.5/5
    This camera replaces my Canon SD20 (I've owned two of those). Cnet gave the Sony DSC-100 a slightly higher rating, so I bought one of those for $100 less. Without going into details redundant to other reviews, in my opinion this camera simply outper...  read more »

    - bramz


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