Purchasing the disc is one simple thing, but it is another thing to convert videos to dvd. Even though it is quite common to convert videos that you take with your handy cam into some storage disc such as DVD, not every single person might be able to do this well. Transferring the videos into DVD by yourself might be a great idea. But if you do not have the skill, knowledge and software to transfer the video into the DVD, you might want to get some services to help you dealing with the issue.

If you are insisting on doing it by yourself, you might need to deal with some risks of losing the data, which is of course something that you do not want, considering that those are the precious memories that cannot be played back. For this, it will be better for you to use video transfer service. They will not only be able to help you well in transferring your videos into DVD, but also the service that can be obtained easily by the net.

The iPod Touch is already an awesome product, so how do you top? Apple has done with the release of several versions, and this time, the third generation models. As with other iPod models, this one lacks an integrated video camera. Instead, it centers firmly on the music and exploited in portable gaming. There are so many welcome additions to this version that competitors are just delayed.

The third-generation iPod Touch looks like all the other versions that are already in the market before it. Has the same size and as usual, his mouth watering 3.5 inch screen is one of its most attractive features. With a screen resolution of 480-by-320, has one of the best portable media player screens out there. Included in the package are a sync cable, dock adapter, and the not-so-famous Apple earphones.

This version of the iPod Touch still bears the old system of support for files which means you can only play a few standard sizes. The iPod Touch product range is known for its impressive user interface and a large number of applications that other media players could only hope. One of the main attractions of the third generation version is perhaps his speed. The manufacturer claims is 50% faster than its classical counterparts.

The storage capacity of 64GB iPod Touch that supports OpenGL ES 2.0. This means more games and applications with really cool graphics. No news could have been better for surfers and players alike. The touch screen allows for easier navigation and easier web experience. If the main reason for the purchase of a media player is the music, then you tickle Genius applications. This extra allows you to create play lists and applications based on what you’ve heard and used.

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BUILD & DESIGN

The Nexus S looks like most smartphones available today, with a black exterior and a minimum of buttons and controls so that the overall look is streamlined and modern. Then again, you might have trouble picking out your phone if you put it on a table next to a few other smartphones at dinner, because there is nothing that really stands out about the Nexus S in a stylistic sense.

At 4.8-inches by 2.48-inches and 0.43-inches thick. the Nexus S is comparable to other large-screen smartphones available today. It does seem to be somewhat lighter than many of the other phones I’ve recently reviewed–when I first took it out of the box I looked for a battery to install, but it was already in the device. It might create a bulge in your pocket, but it won’t weigh you down. My key ring, with its large assortment of office and home keys, weighs more than the Nexus S.

Display
The screen on the Nexus S is simply beautiful. It’s a 4-inch WVGA (480 x 800) Super AMOLED display, so it is extremely sharp and bright. Even when I’m outside in full sunlight I can see the display clearly, which is a nice change from squinting and trying to shade the screen with my hand. There isn’t any ghosting during video playback, and photos looks especially vibrant.

It’s also the first phone with a Contour display, which means exactly what it sounds like — the screen of the phone is slightly curved. The idea is to make it more comfortable in your hand and against your face, when you’re using the Nexus S as a phone. The curve is quite subtle, I didn’t notice too much of a difference except that the phone does seem to fit in my hand a little better than other devices I’ve reviewed recently.

There is an anti-fingerprint coating on the screen, and while I can’t say that it works perfectly — there are still plenty of fingerprints on the screen — it does seem to extend the time between my compulsive screen wiping and cleaning sessions. I simply can’t stand smudgy screens, so something that cuts down on the frustration is a step in the right direction, and the Nexus S delivers on that point.

Keyboard
The Nexus S doesn’t have a physical keyboard, so you’ll be doing your text entry on the virtual on-screen one. This has been improved in this new version of Google’s operating system, so you’ll see slightly larger keys thanks to an optimized, clutter-free layout. It has punctuation at the top for convenience, and works quite nicely.

Of course you can bypass the keyboard entirely using Google’s speech recognition, which works amazingly well on the Nexus S. No matter which way you choose, text entry is fast and easy.

Other Buttons & Controls
The Nexus S has very few buttons or other hardware features. The power button is on the upper right side of the device, and the volume rocker is on the left.

The only other controls are the standard Back, Menu, Search, and Home controls underneath the display, the camera lens on the back, and the headphone jack and charge/sync port on the bottom edge of the device.

There is no microSD card slot, which is unfortunate. I know that everything is “in the cloud” these days, but I like to keep a lot of music, photos, and ebooks on my device, and the 16 GB of internal memory can fill up all too fast since there’s no option to add more with an expansion card.

PERFORMANCE

Under the hood, the Samsung Nexus S is powered by a 1 GHz Samsung Cortex A8 Hummingbird processor. It is extremely fast, carrying out my every desire almost immediately. The only slowdowns I noticed were network related (more on this point later).

Android OS 2.3 — sometimes better known by its code-name: Gingerbread – includes a number of small improvements throughout that leads to a better overall experience. There are more options on calendar appointments, and the new copy and paste scheme is truly delightful.

A simple tap on a word brings up the text markers, and you can move them to the beginning and the end of what you want to copy by sliding them to the proper spot on the screen. The word or phrase is then automatically copied to the clipboard. I love the new method, because it is so much easier to use and so much more precise than what previous versions of Android could offer. No more worries about random spaces or punctuation marks getting in the way because it is now much easier to copy exactly what you want.

Some Nexus S users have complained about some troubling glitches — random reboots, text messages being sent to the wrong contact, and some graphical issues with icons on the homescreen. I haven’t encountered any of those problems on this test device, but enough users have complained that it seems likely these aren’t isolated issues.

Communication
Unfortunately, call quality on this device is very poor. One of my test subjects likened it to “a tin can connected to a tin can” and another said that I sounded very tinny and distant. In both cases I could hear them on the other end very well, they just had problems hearing me. It wasn’t due to background noise either, because none of my callers were able to identify exactly what was going on the background (construction, children at a playground, a nearby fountain, or a busy street).

I don’t have a great deal of experience with T-Mobile, so this could be a network issue, but I live in a major city and tried the phone inside and outside of my office, at home, and while I was out shopping, with notable voice quality issues each time.

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth work great, though I’m not too happy about the new Wi-Fi settings screen. When you join a new network you don’t get the quick and simple user name and password box anymore; that area is farther down and requires scrolling past security certificates, etc. to access. I’m not sure why Google decided to rearrange things to make it more difficult to join a new network, but at least it’s the sort of thing you usually do just once when you set up the phone.

The email and web browsing experience is also great, as I have come to expect on Android devices. Reading my Gmail or navigating from page to page on the Web is fast, with smooth scrolling and a rich experience.

There aren’t any social networking apps included, but you can get Facebook and Twitter clients on the Android Market, most of them for free.

Productivity
The Samsung Nexus S has all of the standard PIM apps that you would expect to find on any Android phone, including calendar, contacts, clock, calculator, and a News & Weather app that provides the local weather forecast and all of the top news and sports headlines.

Gingerbread brings some enhancements in this area, most notably with the addition of guests/invitations in the calendar app and time zone support for appointments. The new appointment interface is much cleaner than before, and more attractive.

The new features in Google Maps 5.0 with Navigation are quite impressive. Multi-touch allows you to use two fingers to explore 3D maps, dragging up and down to tilt and twisting to rotate the map. There’s a compass mode that reorients the map to the direction you’re facing, and improvements to map caching with offline rerouting means that you won’t lose your way even if you lose your data connection. I like being able to choose between driving, biking, walking, and public transit directions, and I was perfectly directed on each of my test trips.

There is no Microsoft Office compatible software included with the phone, such as QuickOffice, but if you receive a Microsoft Word or Excel document as an email attachment you will be able to view it with the built-in ThinkFree Write Mobile or ThinkFree Calc Mobile. There are also more productivity apps available on the Android Market.

Entertainment
The Android OS music player will keep you entertained listening to your favorite tunes. The external speaker will is capable of extremely loud volumes if you desire, with a minimum of distortion. Plus, there’s a video player if you want to transfer TV shows or movies you get off the Web. Just keep in mind that 16 GB storage limit I mentioned earlier.

The included YouTube client showcases web videos quite nicely, with full screen viewing and good sound quality.

Since the Nexus S is sold as an unlocked phone, you won’t find all of the games and demos you typically see on phones that have been more heavily customized by mobile carriers. I downloaded a few games from the Android Market and found that my usual favorites like Jewels and Sudoku played well, with no stuttering or lag and with bright vivid colors.

If you have some time to kill and want to play games or watch videos, the Nexus S can definitely handle your mobile entertainment needs.

Camera
The Nexus S has two cameras, one on the back that takes five megapixel still photos and can capture video as well, plus a VGA camera on the front for video calling.

The five megapixel camera takes excellent photos, even under difficult lighting conditions, and I’m impressed with the level of quality and detail I was able to capture.

White balance, flash, scene mode, focus mode (including macro), and exposure are all easily adjusted by tapping on the screen, though I was disappointed by the lack of any sort of zoom capability.

The only other issue is with action shots, as demonstrated by my photo of cars speeding by on a busy street. You might be able to capture some sports shots if you’re lucky, but you may end up with some blurring or may miss the shot if the camera isn’t able to work fast enough to keep up with you. It works best for portrait and landscape shots, so if you’re planning to take lots of kid or pet shots this might not be the best cameraphone for you.

Battery Life
You won’t have to worry about running out of juice with the Nexus S, because it seems to go on and on forever. I can get three days of relatively heavy use out of it, with Wi-Fi on, taking shots with the camera, constantly checking my email, and watching two or three YouTube videos each day.

You should certainly be able to make it through the day without having your phone go dead during your evening commute, and you might even be able to get away without packing the charger on a weekend trip.

CONCLUSION

I like the Samsung Nexus S, mostly because of Android OS 2.3/Gingerbread, the responsive nature of the device — I hate waiting for apps to open — and the nice camera.

It’s not perfect, though. While this smartphone generally performed well and I didn’t see any of the glitches that have plagued other users, I’m extremely disappointed with the voice quality of the device when I’m on phone calls.

Of course it’s important to have a great email and web browsing experience, and there are times when you have a few spare minutes to play games or watch a video on YouTube, and it’s great that our phone can do all of those things. But they should first of all be really good phones, and the Nexus S doesn’t live up to my standards in that regard. It is possible that the issues I experienced are all due to the T-Mobile network in my area, but that is impossible to know for sure.

If you have strong T-Mobile coverage in your area, or are planning to use the Nexus S with another GSM carrier such as AT&T, it deserves a closer look because it performed well in all other respects.

Pros

• Latest version of the Android OS
• Excellent screen
• Responsive device
• Good photo quality, with accessible controls for white balance, exposure, scene mode, etc.
• Light weight
• Good volume and sound quality on external speaker
• Long battery life

Cons

• Extremely low voice quality
• No memory card slot
• No zoom on the camera

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BUILD & DESIGN

The Optimus T is a well constructed, comfortable phone. I say that because it just feels good in the hand. It is plastic throughout, and feels light, but not cheap. The plastic has a texture to it that adds to the quality feel.

Dimensions are 4.5 x 2.3 x 0.5, and it weighs in at around 4.5 ounces.

Screen
The display is a 3.2-inch HVGA (480 x 320) TFT LCD touchscreen. It is bright, and has great colors.

Although the screen is a bit on the small side compared to other devices, I think it is just right for an entry-level phone. My wife uses this device, and she is quite happy with the screen. She says ”I like that I can keep all of my apps/icons in the home listing page, but really like that I can bring them onto my opening pages (background pages?) so I can get the frequently used ones quickly. I like the ability to have different screensaver pages where I can either just look at my background picture or to place apps that I use a lot and quickly swipe between the pages. Also, the ability to turn the sounds on and off with just a quick swipe and not to actually unlock the phone is really nice!”

The touchscreen seems a little less sensitive compared to my G2, but it has not been a problem.

There is no light sensor like some high end-phones have now, so you’ll need to manually adjust the screen brightness, particularly if you use the Optimus T in the dark or in bright sunlight.

Other Buttons & Controls
There are four physical buttons for Menu, Home, Return, and Search below the screen. These are easy to use, as they are slightly raised.  The two center buttons (Home and Return) are actually a rocker surrounded by a chrome accent. This layout makes it easy to use them in the dark.

The volume rocker on the right is pretty straightforward and easy to use.

Interestingly there is no dedicated camera button like its Sprint counterpart has. Still, the Camera app came as a preloaded icon on one of the home screen pages, so it has been easy to find and use.

The microSD card is stored under the battery door above the battery itself, and a 2 GB card is included.

PERFORMANCE

The LG Optimus T runs the standard version of Android OS 2.2 (Froyo), the latest version of Google’s operating system.

It is powered by a 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM7627 with Adreno 200 graphics. It also has 512 MB of RAM.

That 600 MHz processor should tell you this will not keep up with the big boys using 1 GHz Snapdragon processors, but it does perform surprisingly well. Normal tasks are smooth and it has no trouble with the built in live wallpapers. There are occasional slowdowns during normal operation, but they are barely noticeable.

Quadrant benchmarks put the Optimus T ahead of the Motorola Droid and Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, not bad for an entry-level phone.

The stock browser handles large websites with ease. There is no Adobe Flash support, but this does not run very well on other devices with processors slower than 1 GHz.

Wireless/Call Quality
The call quality is quite good. I have not had any dropped calls, or data connectivity issues. Calls are loud and clear on both ends.

The Optimus T uses T-Mobile’s HSPA 3G network, and always seems to have a solid connection. Using the Speedtest app, I usually get between 1 and 2 Mbps down, and 0.5 to 1.5 Mbps up, which is much slower than my G2 on 4G obviously, but is more than adequate for normal use.

The Wi-Fi connection is typical of other Android OS handsets. It is easy to set up and connect to public hotspots as well as my home network. A nice touch on this phone is the inclusion of Wi-Fi calling and hotspot. Just like the recently reviewed T-Mobile G2, Wi-Fi calling was easy to setup and use, but does count against your mobile minutes.

This smartphone also has Bluetooth 2.1, A-GPS, a compass, and an accelerometer.

I paired my wife’s Bluetooth headset and tested it briefly, and I had no trouble with the process or sound quality. The speaker phone is clear and loud, and uses the same speaker as the ear speaker on the front of the phone. This is nice when it is sitting on a table when using the speakerphone.

Productivity
Many standard Android OS apps are included such as Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, Calculator, Voice Search, Google Voice, and email. Together, these make an ordinary phone into a smartphone. They help you keep up with your schedule and your friends.

The Swype keyboard is pre-installed, and works great. For those that haven’t used it, Swype is a way of typing without actually pulling your finger away from the screen to complete words. What you do is draw a line to all of the letters of a word, and it will recognize the word. If there is more than one word recognized it pops up with a box and you select the correct one. Since there is no physical keyboard, the touch screen keyboard must be easy to use and accurate, and this one is.

The notification area has a row of toggles for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, data, and mute when pulled down. The app tray also has a couple of slight modifications which is app grouping. The top section has pre-installed apps, and downloaded apps are below. You also have the ability to add categories in the app tray and move apps around in them. My wife’s thoughts, “I was able to easily understand the touch screen keys and quickly learn to toggle between symbols, numbers letters etc… which I still really hadn’t figured out on my old button phone. This phone was also easy to get used to where to touch, slide through lists etc for me to get around. It was much easier to adapt to/learn than I thought it would be.”

Entertainment
The built-in Music and Movie players are not exceptional, but work well. If you want to use the Optimus T as a music player, though, you’re probably going to want to get a larger memory card. The 2 GB one this device comes with won’t hold a big music or video collection, but you can go up to 32 GB.

There is also an FM radio built in, and the radio app is easy to use. You can scan, save favorites, and search.

There are several game demos pre-installed (My wife likes Doodle Jump).

According to her, “I have found it easy to locate new games and download them”. That’s because this model includes the Android Market, an on-device store for finding, buying, and installing apps.

If you’re into social networking, Facebook and Twitter, apps are readily available.

Camera
The 3.2 megapixel camera in the LG Optimus T does not include a flash, but pictures are still very good, much better than I expected.

LG does a god job with its camera here. The camera app has a nice interface compared to the stock Android one, and gives you more control over your pictures. It is also easy to zoom using the volume key on the side of the phone.

Navigation
Bundled software includes TeleNav. There is a monthly charge for using this navigation app, but it is one of the best available, with lots of bells and whistles.

But if you don’t want to pay extra, you can use the standard Google Maps, which offers basic navigation.

Also bundled is DriveSmart. This is an app that, when enabled, minimizes driving distractions by silencing notifications, routing calls to voicemail or a Bluetooth headset, and optionally auto-responding to calls and texts. DriveSmart Plus, a downloadable upgrade (available soon), automatically detects vehicle motion, and adds parental controls.

Battery Life
The battery life is excellent on the Optimus T. A 1500 mAh battery is included, and with normal usage this can last days.

After the initial geek out period of playing around with it, my wife only charges it once every few days, and even then it isn’t especially needed.

CONCLUSION

Overall the LG Optimus T is a very nice phone. You get a lot of bang for your buck on this one.

It performs well, has good battery life, and is a good size for daily use. I think LG hit the sweet spot of functionality and price with this device.

Pros:

• Good design, feels light without feeling cheap
• Capable processor
• Android OS 2.2 (Froyo) with Swype pre-installed

Cons:

• No Adobe Flash Support
• Small screen for games and movies
• No Camera flash

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BUILD AND DESIGN

The SD4500 IS is large for an Elph camera at 6.7 ounces (190g), including battery and memory card, but its dimensions of 3.99×2.3×0.88 inches definitely put it into the small camera class. Canon claims it is the thinnest camera with a 10x optical zoom lens and I have no reason to doubt it. The SD4500 IS is shipped with an NP-9L lithium ion battery, battery charger, USB cable, AV cable, wrist strap, a CD containing a new version of Canon’s photo organizing software, ZoomBrowser EX, and a brief paper manual. A comprehensive 180 page User Guide is contained on the CD. You can buy the camera direct from Canon for $349.99 but I’ve seen it online from reputable retailers for under $300.

Ergonomics and Controls
Apart from its cut-off corners, the SD4500 IS has a very traditional appearance with a large, centrally-located lens at its front and a 3.0-inch TFT LCD monitor dominating the rear. Other than the lens, the front of the camera contains only a thin flash in the upper right-hand corner, two microphone openings for its stereo sound capability, and an AF assist/self timer lamp. The corner location of the flash means the owner will have to be careful of blocking it when using the left hand to support the camera.

One side of the SD4500 IS contains the mount for the wrist strap. The other contains a port for connecting the AV and USB cables as well as a separate connection for an HDMI cable. The plastic port cover is attached to the camera body by a thin piece of rubbery material, so care must be taken when handling it.

The bottom of the camera contains a plastic tripod socket located toward the side of the camera. A metal tripod socket is preferable to one made of plastic as the metal socket is less likely to wear out. The camera’s bottom also contains a compartment for the battery and a second compartment for the memory card. The compartment covers are plastic but fairly sturdy. The SD4500 IS can use several different memory cards – SD, SDHC, SDXC, MultiMediaCard, MMCplus, HC MMCplus and Eye-Fi.

The camera’s top portion contains the shutter button encircled by a zoom control ring, a power button, a mode switch with settings for movies, program and auto, and a speaker hole. The controls worked well overall, but I noticed a slight hesitation every time I used the zoom control.

The rear of the camera contains the aforementioned 3.0-inch TFT LCD monitor. To the right of the LCD are two grooves which aid the thumb in gripping the camera. Next to the thumb grip is a dedicated movie button, which starts recording a movie when pressed and ends the movie when pressed again. This has become increasingly common in newer digital cameras and for a good reason. Taking movies is usually something that users will do on the spur of the moment, and it is much quicker to simply press a movie button than wading through the camera’s menu trying to find the movie mode.

Below this is a circular controller, which can be turned to change settings and pressed to bring up certain options – left for macro, up for self-timer, right for flash and down for display. A func/set button in the center of the controller allows you to select a menu option or bring up the shortcut menu. Below the controller is a menu button, to call up the camera’s menu system, and below that a playback button, to review photos that have already been taken.

These buttons are nice and large and would seem to be easy to manipulate but, for some reason, I often had a tough time pressing the menu button strongly enough to have it take effect. With the exception of the difficult menu button, the system is one that is tried and true works well.

Menus and Modes
The SD4500 IS uses Canon’s dual menu system – a comprehensive menu activated by the menu button and a shortcut menu called up by pressing the func/set button. The menu options differ based on the shooting mode, and menus are logically set forth and easy to understand.

Here are the various shooting modes:

• Smart Auto: The camera automatically selects what it considers to the most appropriate settings based on the prevailing shooting conditions. This includes selecting one of the camera’s scene modes (such as kids and pets, handheld night, low light, beach, foliage, snow, fireworks and more).
• Program AE: The camera will allow users access to all menu options, including ISO, white balance and a particular scene mode, but the camera will select the aperture and shutter speed on its own. One option that can be selected with the quick menu is “Color Accent,” which colorizes a small part of a picture that is otherwise in black and white. Another option is “My Colors,” which has settings for various color modes as well as custom color, which allows the user to adjust contrast, sharpness and color saturation.
• Movie: The camera can capture movies in full HD at 1920×1080 at 24 fps, 1280×720 at 30 fps, 640×480 at 30 fps, 320×240 at 30 fps. The camera can also shoot in super slow motion, at 320×240 at 240 fps and in a “miniature” mode which makes objects look like toys. The camera audio is recorded in stereo. Optical zoom is available during recording.

Display/Viewfinder
The SD4500 IS has a 3.0-inch LCD in a 16×9 configuration with approximately 230,000 dots. The monitor can be adjusted to one of five different levels of brightness. The monitor displays bright colors but it can be hard to see in sunny conditions. As is the case with virtually all small digital cameras, the SD4500 IS lacks a viewfinder.

PERFORMANCE
While not a speed demon, the SD4500 is a solid performer. It takes about three seconds to both start up and shut down. Its shot-to-shot time for successive pictures also averages about three seconds. Menu operations are quick and the optical zoom operates smoothly, albeit with the initial hesitation I referred to earlier.

Shooting Performance
The performance tables show that the SD4500 is a fairly quick operator. Its shutter lag, when pre-focused (when the shutter is pressed halfway down), was negligible at 0.02 seconds. Its auto focus acquisition, the time it takes between pressing the shutter and taking the shot, was 0.49 seconds, a solid middle of the road figure. The SD4500 IS has faster continuous shooting ability than most small Canon cameras, at 3.3 frames per second (8.8 frames per second is possible using high speed burst mode). This is reasonably quick performance.

As important as quickness is accuracy. The SD4500 is very good in that respect as it rarely failed to find focus, even when shooting in low light or at the long end of the zoom lens.

One area where the SD4500 disappoints, however, is its poor battery life. Canon claims its NP-9L lithium ion battery delivers only 150 shots, which is very short, as most small cameras can shoot at least 200 images. Navigate the menus for a little while and record a movie and you will find your battery charge reduced to 50%. A back-up battery or two is essential if you plan to spend the day taking pictures and movies with the PowerShot SD4500.

Lens Performance
This is an area of strength for the Canon SD4500, as I felt the images had a very pleasing combination of sharpness and low distortion, both at the medium zoom and even at the long end of the zoom. I found minimal chromatic aberration, no vignetting and only minor corner blur.

In addition there was virtually no barrel distortion at wide angle or pin cushion distortion at maximum telephoto.

Overall, I was impressed with the lens performance of the SD4500.

Video Quality
The SD4500 takes excellent quality HD videos at 1920×1080 resolution at 24 frames per second. Optical zoom can be used. The stereo audio is also top notch. In the following recording, the movement of the train is very smooth and the sound comes through loud and clear.

Recording will automatically stop when either the file size reaches 4GB or the recording time reaches approximately 10 minutes (in HD mode) or 1 hour (in standard definition mode).

Image Quality
The SD4500 IS produced very pleasing images in good light, with strong colors. Its low light images were good as well. As is always the case with Canon point-and-shoot cameras, the Canon SD4500 IS produced very attractive macro shots (it can focus as close as 3mm)

If for some reason you don’t care for the standard colors, you can select among vivid, neutral, sepia, black and white and positive film.

The SD4500 has a function called i-contrast, which will even out areas that have too much contrast. It works reasonably well.

The SD4500 has white balance settings for auto, daylight, cloudy, tungsten, two types of fluorescent and custom. I used auto white balance with almost all of my pictures and found it to be very accurate overall, as demonstrated by the image below using the fluorescent setting.

The flash of the SD4500 IS has ten settings, Auto, On, Slow Synchro, Off, FE Lock, Auto Red-Eye Correction, Red-Eye Reduction, Shutter Sync, Safety FE, Smart Flash Exposure. The figures for flash range given by Canon are 12 inches to 12 feet at wide angle and 3.3 feet to 6.6 feet at telephoto. The flash worked well and produced output that was appropriate for the lighting conditions. However flash recycling times were slow – it took at least five seconds for the camera to be ready for use after a flash had been fired.

Canon’s back-illuminated sensor seems to have improved the quality of the low light pictures compared to Canon’s other point-and-shoot cameras. As the ISO table shows, image quality with good color was excellent through 200 ISO.

It declined slightly at 400 ISO and again at 800 and 1600 ISO. Image quality deteriorated drastically at 3200 ISO, but that setting will probably never be used.

CONCLUSIONS
The Canon PowerShot SD4500 is a small, solid camera that does some important things very well, but falls down in several areas. When it comes to image quality and video quality, the SD4500 is one of the best point-and-shoot cameras available, even in low light. It is also a reasonably quick camera and has a high quality lens.

However, while the camera has a very long telephoto length of 360mm, its wide angle view is only 36mm, which is narrower than most small cameras on the market today. It has a poor battery life of only 150 shots. There are also a few ergonomic issues that concern me – I do not care for the camera’s plastic tripod socket, its hesitating zoom lever, and its hard-to-operate menu button.

If image quality and video quality are of supreme importance to you, the SD4500 is a camera to seriously consider, as long as you don’t have a major problem with the camera’s limitations.

Pros:

• Excellent image quality
• Very good video
• High quality stereo sound

Cons:

• Short battery life
• Ergonomic issues
• Narrow wide angle

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