Good – For those wanting a great quality compact camera with both fully automatic and program, aperture, shutter speed and manual controls, to me it is a camera that is hard to go past.

I have left out a lot of the camera's features here only because there are just so many crammed into this very robust little camera. For those who want sometning more technical, there a a number of reviews coming through now on this new Canon model. I've kept this review to my likes (and one little irk ) here. This is a great choice for those wanting high quality and very versitile compact camera. Having the capabilities of high definition video as well as top quality stillphotography, it is an ideal camera for everyday use, where your SLR Digital camera may be just too cumbersome.

There are many features including HDR, panorama, tracking, fish-eye and other shooting modes which give one a wide scope of alternative picture making tools.

The build quality is excellent and as well as in-built flash it comes with a hot shoe for mounting of an external flash...anything from the Canon 270Ex through to the 580EX Mark ll. The flip out viewfinder ia also excellent and there is the option of an optical viewfinder as well.

By shopping around one can pick up one of these great units for well (and I mean very well ) under the recommended retail, including postage and or delivery to your door. This is not a real lightweight, compact camera but that is of no concern to me. However maybe one should have a hands on feel of it if you are looking for something tht can easily fit into a pocket or such. To me personlly, it is of no concern, as I've been used to carrying round a Canon 5D for the past few years !

Just one little thing that irks me is the spring loaded door covering the connections for external video and downloading etc. It becomes a two handed operation as one must hold the door open while connecting the remote switch or video / download cables.