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Review summary: Can a digital camera be too ultra-compact?

Review summary: The sleek, solid-colored PowerShot SD780 IS performs very well, with great image quality, a powerful flash, nice high-ISO shots in low light, and more.

Pros: Great features, flash, and low-light performance ; stylish

Cons: Small controls, LCD, and zoom range ; no wide-angle lens or manual controls

Verdict: This is a very slim-and-stowable camera, measuring just 0.7 inches thick and 3.4 inches wide; it's about the size and thickness of a half-deck of playing cards. A durable plastic body surrounds the metal lens casing, and the contoured edges of the ...

Review summary: The Canon PowerShot SD780 IS is a sliver of a camera that's light on manual controls, but small enough to be taken just about anywhere. It's a camera that anyone can pick up and use, and comes in a variety of bright colors. It has a 3x zoom lens, ...

Verdict: The SD780 is less than 3/4 of an inch thick, and is slim enough to fit into even the tightest of pockets. Interestingly, Canon added an optical viewfinder to the camera. It's so tiny as to be almost useless, but at the same time, it's better than ...

Review summary: The Canon PowerShot SD780 IS is a tiny, pocket-sized camera that has a 3x zoom, shoots 12-megapixel images and 720p HD video. This svelte little unit performed well in most of our tests, and can be had for $280.

Verdict: The Canon PowerShot SD780 IS a decent camera poured into a very small package. It may not have the world's most impressive range of manual controls, nor the biggest zoom we've ever seen, but it shoots well, with excellent image sharpness (though with ...