Purchase Canon PowerShot SD780IS12.1 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.5-inch LCD (Black)

I'm a member of Canon Professional Services and make my living using Canon cameras.
I have owned a number of point & shoot digital cameras, all Canon.

First the good. The 780IS is sleek and tiny. For a $200 camera, it creates pretty darn good HD video. Much better than expected. Nice still images on bright sunny days with non-moving subjects.

Unfortunately, we (bought for my wife) didn't buy for its video capabilities, but to mainly capture images of our young kids. The Canon 780IS is a train wreck in the photographing moving kids department.

The shutter lag problem is the big deal breaker here. Push the shutter and wait wait wait. Holy cow, is anything happening? finally a photograph is made, literally 1 second, sometimes 2 seconds later. The 780IS is the absolute worst digital camera i have ever owned. AVOID it at all costs if you're taking photographs of anything that moves (kids, pets, smiles, emotion). In low-light or a with a moving subject this thing performs worse than my very first powershot (circa 2000). Amazing that Canon would put out such a POS.

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