Update Price and Review Canon's PowerShot SD3500

The good: Nice design; ample touch-screen LCD; Eye-Fi anamnesis agenda support.
The bad: Apathetic cutting performance.
The basal line: The Canon PowerShot SD3500 IS offers up appropriate photos, touch-screen controls, and an ultrawide-angle lens, but that's appealing abundant area the action ends.
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Update Price and Review Canon's PowerShot SD3500

Canon's PowerShot SD3500 IS is array of a aftereffect to 2009's SD980 IS in that it has a touch-screen LCD and appearance the aforementioned ultrawide-angle 24mm-equivalent lens with a 5x zoom. This time around, though, the resolution's been bumped up to 14 megapixels and the awning is beyond with bigger resolution. But alfresco of those amount features, the camera is somewhat unremarkable.
Touch-screen models from the brand of Sony, Samsung, and Nikon accept about been added fun to use than some of their non-touch-screen aggregation acknowledgment to some absorbing blow features. The SD3500 IS aloof feels like ... Expand abounding review
Canon's PowerShot SD3500 IS is array of a aftereffect to 2009's SD980 IS in that it has a touch-screen LCD and appearance the aforementioned ultrawide-angle 24mm-equivalent lens with a 5x zoom. This time around, though, the resolution's been bumped up to 14 megapixels and the awning is beyond with bigger resolution. But alfresco of those amount features, the camera is somewhat unremarkable.
Touch-screen models from the brand of Sony, Samsung, and Nikon accept about been added fun to use than some of their non-touch-screen aggregation acknowledgment to some absorbing blow features. The SD3500 IS aloof feels like a archetypal PowerShot with a blow screen. That's apparently not abundant to stop me from advising it. However, there are some photo affection issues to accede as able-bodied as some apathetic cutting performance. But if you're accommodating and your capacity are still and you're not a acrimonious pixel peeper, this camera's not all that bad--just a little boring.
Key specs Canon Powershot SD3500 IS
Price (MSRP) $329.99
Dimensions (WHD) 3.9 x 2.2 x 0.9 inches
Weight (with array and media) 5.6 ounces
Megapixels, angel sensor size, blazon 14 megapixels, 1/2.3-inch CCD
LCD size, resolution/viewfinder 3.5-inch touch-screen LCD, 461K dots/None
Lens (zoom, aperture, focal length) 5x, f2.8-5.9, 24-120mm (35mm equivalent)
File architecture (still/video) JPEG/H.264 (.MOV)
Highest resolution admeasurement (still/video) 4,320x3,240 pixels/ 1,280x720 at 30fps
Image stabilization blazon Optical
Battery type, CIPA rated activity Lithium ion rechargeable, 220 shots
Battery answerable in camera No; alien charger supplied
Storage media SD/SDHC/SDXC cards, MultiMediaCard, MMCplus card, HC MMCplus card, Eye-Fi SD cards
Bundled software ZoomBrowser EX 6.5/PhotoStitch 3.1 (Windows); ImageBrowser 6.5/PhotoStitch 3.2 (Mac)
Typical of the Digital Elph series, the SD3500 IS is analytic small, good-looking, and accessible in altered colors: black, silver, and pink. It's beautiful after actuality blatant and can calmly blooper in a pants abridged or baby handbag. The LCD and ultrawide-angle lens accord it some weight, though, and the all-metal case makes it feel sturdy. The alone absolute affair with the all-embracing design, however, is the position of the beam aerial on the larboard side, which can be blocked by a feel if you're not careful. (To be fair, there's not abundant allowance for it to be elsewhere.)
The SD3500 IS is controlled abundant added by blow than the SD980 IS. That camera still had a cardinal of concrete controls, while the SD3500 drops to aloof power, play, and bang absolution buttons and a cutting approach about-face on the top of the body. There's a zoom arena about the bang release, but contrarily the controls are touch-based. The awning is alert the resolution and a 0.5-inch bigger than that model's, too.
The awning is adequately acknowledging and can be calibrated to your touch, but the interface itself can be a little aggravating at times to navigate. For example, aback abyssal the advantage lists in the capital agenda system, instead of application simple up and bottomward arrows, you annoyance the lists with your finger. This would be accomplished if it operated smoothly, but it doesn't, and if you use the appropriate ancillary of the awning you may accidently change settings to boot. In its favor, though, the cutting options specific to the approach you're in can bound be afflicted with a brace of curtains and Canon includes a brace options to adapt the layout.Update Price and Review Canon's PowerShot SD3500
The best use for a blow awning is for absorption on specific capacity by borer on them, which this Canon does. It will additionally clue the subject, authoritative the affection alike added valuable. However, clashing abounding newer touch-screen cameras, you cannot tap to focus and shoot. Canon alike alone the onscreen bang absolution that appeared whenever the SD980 was angry vertically.
In Playback mode, the blow awning can be acclimated for flipping through or scrolling amid images, selecting photos to annul or mark as favorites, starting a slideshow, and accumulative a area of a photo by borer on the allotment you appetite to see added closely. Canon additionally includes its Active Display technology absolution you move aback and alternating amid photos and blockage focus on still images by angry the camera larboard or right. You can additionally tap the larboard and appropriate abandon to move one anatomy at a time through your shots. Photos can be tagged as favorites or bound categorized by accountable for accessible clarification aback attractive through a lot of images.
Should you appetite to affix to a computer, monitor, or HDTV, there are Mini-USB and Mini-HDMI ports on the body's appropriate side. The array and anamnesis agenda alcove is on the basal beneath a nonlocking door. This Canon supports the new SDXC agenda architecture as able-bodied as Eye-Fi SD cards for wireless transfers of photos anon from the camera. The array does not allegation in camera, and that blow awning doesn't do its attempt activity any favors, so you'll apparently acquisition yourself aperture the alcove absolutely a bit.Update Price and Review Canon's PowerShot SD3500
General cutting options Canon Powershot SD3500 IS
ISO acuteness (full resolution) Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1,600
White antithesis Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Custom
Recording modes Auto, Program/Scene, Movie
Focus modes Face AF, Center AF, Blow AF, Macro, Normal, Infinity
Metering modes Evaluative, Center-weighted average, Spot
Color furnishings Vivid, Neutral, Sepia, Atramentous & White, Lighter Skin, Darker Skin, Vivid Blue, Vivid Green, Vivid Red, Custom
Burst approach attempt absolute (full resolution) Unlimited continuous
Other than Canon's actual reliable Smart Auto mode, there's annihilation awfully absorbing about the SD3500's cutting options. The cutting approach about-face on top of the camera has three options: one for Auto, one for Movie approach (capturing up to 720p HD resolution), and a camera approach (that's what I'm calling it back it's appointed by a account of a camera). The camera approach gives you admission to a Program Auto approach as able-bodied as all the arena modes including Portrait, Night Snapshot, Kids&Pets, Low Light, Indoor, Beach, Foliage, Snow, Fireworks, and Long Shutter. Canon added a Smart Bang option, too, which includes a smile-activated bang absolution as able-bodied as Wink and Face Detection self-timers. Wink allows you to set off the bang artlessly by winking at the camera and the Face Detection advantage will delay till the camera detects a new face in advanced of the camera afore it fires off a shot. Both assignment well.Update Price and Review Canon's PowerShot SD3500