Canon PowerShot SD450 Digital Camera

Digital Photography Review

Canon PowerShot SD450 Digital ELPH/Digital IXUS 55 Review

Now for the rating. In the year or so since the SD400 arrived the ultra-compact market has inevitably moved on, with features such as image stabilization and high ISO starting to appear (though it must be said the latter is rarely any good), pixel counts increasing and prices falling, so can the little Ixus/Elph still compete? It's a little cheaper than the SD400 was (averaging around $320), and it's a little better (though the changes are hardly ground breaking), but there are definitely better cameras out there. This is certainly true if you want more manual control or more pixels, and for a similar price the Fuji F10 offers usable high ISO performance. But at the end of the day everything that made the SD400 so attractive as a package is also true for the SD450 - and then some. It's a beautifully made and reliable point-and-shooter that is easy and fun to use, and one that produces surprisingly good results where it counts, and one that - even with the niggles mentioned above - i... Read more