Why I buy this one ?
- 6.0-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 14 x 19-inch prints
- 3x optical zoom; 2.5-inch LCD display
- ISO 800 shooting; widescreen (16:9) stills recording
- Fast Frame Rate Movie Mode for shooting high-quality movies at up to 60 frames per second QVGA (320 x 240)
- Powered by a lithium-ion battery (battery and charger included); stores images on SD cards (16 MB memory card included)

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What our customer's say!

"Great pictures and easy to use.", This cannon camera and all of the digital elphs that I have used are of excellent quality. I bought mine to take with me on snowmobiling trips as it fits into a shirt pocket and is readily available whenever I need it. It has many settings for all light conditions and can even be used underwater with the right underwater case. It also has automatic mode that is just point and shoot, no thought at all.

"Canon SD600 takes terrible indoor photos", My Canon SD600 is about 2 years old. It is compact and easy to use. Using Auto-mode, it takes great outdoor photos and high-quality video. However, its indoor photo quality is aweful - the pictures turn out very yellow. Even using the "vivid-color" setting, the highest ISO setting, and manually setting the "sunlight, cloudy, incadescent, or floursent" option, its indoor picture quality is still very poor. The pictures turn out yellowish and it is a real pain having to set the light setting manually.

"Best purchase", I love this camera so much that I have read the entire manual (it wasnt the intention but couldnt find anything to read in my long air travel). It provides tons of features and options. Works fine in low light, etc.

Recommend buying a memory card which had minimum lag in writing to memory however it is not a must. I get frustrated with low writing speeds. I bought a "SanDisk SDSDH-1024-901 1 GB Ultra II Secure Digital Memory Card" with it. Its pretty fast in memory writing. My purchase was in December 2006 so check whats the latest and fastest available now

"A TOTALLY AWESOME CAMERA!!!!", This camera is fantastic and simply does it all. Quit thinking about it and buy it. Nuff said.

"Please Read.", I previously own an earlier Elph and loved it. When I purchased the Elph SD 600 I was so excited..and like many other reviewers ..loved it. I read all these excellent reviews and would have written one too. BUT, about a year and a half later with only infrequent use...the lens would not retract. After googling this issue to my horror this is a widespread problem which has even prompted a class action suit...The dreaded E-18 error..or in my case LENS ERROR. Past warranty Canon charges $259 to fix plus shipping..
in my case I saw battery was low and shut camera down..I guess that triggers a problem because when I put a fresh battery in the lens came out but would not retract. Yikes. Now I find that this is a known design flaw..often once it is fixed it reoccurs. I have always had nothing but Canon, but now I have to look elsewhere once I am in a position to buy another camera. I loved my little Elph and took perfect care of it, but the lens mechanism is so fragile that it breaks in about 10 different circumstances and is very costly to repair.

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"Great camera", Purchased this camera when our grand-daughter was born. Previously owned
a one megapixel elph. This light-weight compact camera takes excellent photos, is durable, and fits easily in my very small purse. Occasionally I've had the red-eye syndrome with the baby's photos, but it is easily fixed with my photo shop program. I highly recommend Canon cameras.

"Good Camera", I think this camera is very fast at shooting, good battery, so so picture quality, good video quality, so overall its a very good camera. The price of $[...] is the worst deal i have ever heard;i bought the camera brand new in radio shack when it first came out for Two hundred dollars ($[...]!)!! The only thing is you might want to buy a higher zoom camera, like the Samsung NV7, which on Amazon is about $[...]. Overall, the price of $[...] was just ok, but the zoom is mediocre, pictures are so so when enlarged, otherwise its a very tough, metal bodied camera with one of the beat batteries on a camera i have ever seen in a point and shoot when fully charged. For more camera reviews, go to: www.cnet.com/reviews. I currently have owned this camera for almost a year. The main reason i have it is for videos, which are 30 fps. I am now going to buy the Samsung NV7, which has 7x Opt. zoom, 2x digital, 7.2 Mega pixels, and is very sleek and stylish. Overall, i would suggest this camera if zoom is not a large concern, and you are looking for strength and sturdiness.

"Grainy photos, lens jam after one year", I absolutely adored my SD600 Elph. The video quality was amazing. Yet I had troubles as well taking photos indoors and in low light, and when I could, they often came out grainy. This is completely contrary to all of the reviews I read. I did hours and hours of research before buying this camera (Thanks a lot, C-Net).

Now, 13 months after I bought it, I find myself just arrived in Peru, and here for the next three months, with no camera, because the lens is jammed and the camera won't even turn on now. So, I either have to buy some weird brand of camera here in Peru for three times the price, or not have any photos of Peru at all. Actually, I can't even buy a camera, since I don't have the money for it, so I guess the photos will only be those in my memory.

My advice... buy something more durable.

"for the fashionable, if the quality was as good as sony's", This is one of the last good cameras that Canon made before it decided to move onto plastic bodies and a more rounded shape such as their SD750, SD630. The SD1000 is the SD600 successor but is boxier with respect to the 600. I like the 600 because it has a sturdy body and is compact. I bought the leather case that goes with the camera and the case fits like a glove on the camera protecting it in case I drop it. The screen is a decent size and this camera is one of the few I liked which still had an optical viewfinder instead of just the LCD showing what I was going to take a picture of.

Picture quality is 4/5. I had a Sony 5MP camera before I bought this Canon one and the Sony one just had a crisp clearer picture. Canon has decent image quality nonetheless and accepts SD which is less proprietary than Sony's Memory Stick and less expensive of course. Canon also is known for the different modes in which pictures can be shot, with color especially. It's nifty if you want to play with the functions (because it has so many) and if you're hanging out with your friends and want fun pictures. Indoor shots are decent and the pictures don't tend to be blurry even when taken with an unsteady hand.

With a 2GB memory card, you can snap around 1100 pictures in 6MP format. Also the multiple snapshot function works well when you're taking candid pictures of people and at parties. You can always delete the ones you don't like later when you transfer them to the computer via a card reader or USB. Video recording is a bit on the rough side when it comes to recording a show because the image will blur in and out.

One of the bad things about the camera/video/play switch is that sometimes you mean to take a picture and you end up recording a movie which is kind of cumbersome because you miss a really great picture moment.

It's not the slimmest camera out there like the Sony T7 but it can definitely compete in the other departments like different modes and a more widely accepted memory format. If you're looking for a fashionable camera and it has to be compact as well, I would definitely recommend this camera among the others.

Battery life is 5/5. (Lithium ion battery is much better than the rechargeable AAA batteries.)
Image quality 4/5
Functionality 4/5 (buttons are a bit squished)
Cost-Benefit 5/5




"Excellent", This Canon takes great pictures. It's quick to turn on and quick to take pictures. The IS helps to reduce blurry pictures and the size is small enough to fit in my pocket. I also like the patch feature. It allows you to take a few pictures and patch them into one. The software is good and has a feature that will allow you to rename all your pictures. I had a Sony before and can definitely tell the difference.