B and I own one Canon sd960is. It’s a 12.1 megapixel digital camera that we use for candids and also to shoot 1280×720 HD video for her web site, bryci.com.  It’s easily the best compact digital camera I have ever owned/used. It shoots clean images and the video is unreal. Seriously, in the past the rule was… you want a camera? BUY A CAMERA. You want to record video? BUY A VIDEO CAMERA.

So we did. We went and bought a Canon HF10 HD video camera. Amazing little camera… but get this shit… the sd960is shoots BETTER VIDEO. No joke. Weirdest thing.

So Canon comes out with a new model called the Canon sd970is. We went and bought one tonight. We took it back inside an hour. It was that bad.

DO NOT BUY ONE.

Wow, what a piece if shit. Seriously. They made the screen bigger, they made the camera heavier, it makes all these weird little noises and chirps/gears noises etc.. very strange. I had shut the sounds off, this was the camera itself making these weird noises. The focus wasn’t crisp, the video was dull… it was not good.

So, my advice to you…

Best Buy in the States or Canada or Future Shop in Canada… and BUY A CANON sd960is. The 960is is still available and it’s $100-$150 cheaper than what we bought ours for last year. We just bought a second one tonight, we paid $279 Canadian for ours and yes, it is worth every fucking penny.

BUY THIS FUCKING CAMERA. seriously.

Canon did upgrade the 960is to the 980is, but they didn’t change anything really, the quality is the same, the camera looks the same, oh wait, it’s close to $100 more. Yeah, fack that. Buy the sd960is. You will thank me.

Easily the best video quality from a small camera I have ever used, and I have used a lot in my area of work.

Here’s a tiny video that Bryci did of her at the tanning place… this was shot with the canon sd960is. Simple camera, very, very kick ass camera. BUY ONE.

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