The picture quality of this camera seems good. The macro mode is nice on these newer cameras. I (and my wife) are disapointed with the video quality of the canon sd780 in mid to low lighting. Outdoors during the daytime - video looks great. In dim lighting the video is extreemly grainy! Indoors with the lights on at night time in our house video looks grainy, in the kitchen with brighter lighting the video looked ok, maybe slightly grainy. If you are in a room with less than ideal lighting video looks very grainy/fuzzy. That was the case last night when we tested it in our greatroom that has average to slightly below average indoor lighting. We tested it via hdmi to our HDTV and also on my computer. I had a Canon sx200is (12X optical zoom, 720p video w/ hdmi output). The video was also grainy indoors at night time with the lights on but I don't think it was as bad as the sd780 (it's hard to say). I returned the sx200is because if I was going to have a camera with 12Xs zoom I wanted it to zoom during video and I liked the size of the sd780. The sd780 is a very nice sized little camera. The 2.5" screen looks great and has the same resolution as the 3" screen on the sx200is, in my opinion the 2.5" looks sharper. I am happy overall but I don't think it will replace my old HI-8 camcorder in low light situations unfortunately. And because there is no optical zoom I still will use the camcorder now and then. But for most situations it is nice to only take this small camera around for pictures and 720p video.
If you are looking for a camera that zooms during video (12X optical zoom)and has 720p video w/ hdmi and has great reviews look up the panasonic zs3 (the lcd screen is also sharper vs. the canon - twice as many pixels). I was debating between that one and the canon sd780. I chose the canon for the size and the price. The panisonic is about $399.
I almost gave the review 3 stars due to the dim video quality. But overall this seems to be a nice camera with great features that is a nice size and looks great.Get more detail about Canon PowerShot SD780IS12.1 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.5-inch LCD (Black).
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