tammy_black

<p>I need to know a good digital camera with digital macro. I can save up if need be, but I would prefer to get something now, so I don't want to spend more than $200, preferably a little less. Thanks.</p>

<p>Tammy</p>

<p>I've had lots of problems with my new camera and wonder if this model is known for having problems with focusing, digital macro, and IS in macro. Also, does anyone know of a good not-to-expensive model that works well and is reliable? I may sell mine and get a different one.</p>

<p>Tammy</p>

<p>The IS makes pictures of moving things look still, whether the camera or the thing is moving. That is how it works in other modes, and it used to do that in digital macro. This has nothing to do with the settings. The first thing Canon told me when I called them was reset it, and it still did the same things! I attached a picture to the original post. The lcd digitizes, not the pictures. The pictures look like the thing was moving when as far as I knew the thing was perfectly still. Hold your camera like you're going to take a shot and watch the screen digitize things like a cartoon with pages being flipped too slowly. It never did that at first then suddenly started occasionally doing it. One moment it will be fine and the next it will malfunction in one of the ways I mentioned. This has nothing to do with settings.</p>

<p>I bought a supposedly new Canon powershot SD1100 IS, and 2 months later it has gone to crap. It

sometimes digitizes images. As you look at something on the screen while you are in digital macro and

possibly other modes and not yet taking a shot, the movements of people and objects you see on the screen are not

smoothe. It's like if you had drawings of cartoon frames on paper and flipped through them a little too

slowly. It only does this sometimes. Also, sometimes, but so far ONLY in digital macro, if you

are moving either the camera or the object being photographed even slightly, the IS doesn't work and the picture

looks like the thing was moving instead of being crystal clear like it was when I first got the camera. The IS

works just fine in other modes (portrait, etc.). I deliberately moved my camera case rapidly back and forth

while photographing it, and the picture looks like the thing was as still as a statue. I wonder if there could be

one cause for both of these problems. I already had to send it in for repairs a couple of weeks ago, and they

replaced the optical assembly or something like that, so it does stay in proper focus in macro now, but I don't know

what is causing the other 2 things. Are these things common to this model, and should I dump it on ebay as

a refurbished one and get something else new, or get another of these, or what? It was fine for a couple of

months before all this happened, and a friend of mine has no problems with hers and loves it, but she may not even

use the digital macro function at all.<br>

Tammy</p><div></div>