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In that time, this camera survived several trips all around Europe, Multiple family camping trips and vacations, and pictures being taken every day. It also survived several 3 foot falls.
Overall, I definitely got my money's worth from the camera. Canon is the brand I will continue to stick with until they are surpassed.




However, recently it has been losing the date and time every time I turn it off. When I turn it on, it asks me to set date and time again, but they are only retained until I turn the camera off.
This is not related to battery problems. The battery indicator shows lots of life. I took a two minute video last week, along with other photos, and the battery still had lots of life. I do recharge it when the indicator shows it is low. BTW, the videos are great, we have a new puppy and it is fun to see her tearing around and playing with her older companion.



However, if you're an SLR user like me, you miss all the professional functionality, versatility and most of all, zoom range when you settle for most point-and-shoot (PAS) cameras.
The SX110 IS was my dream come true. The 10x optical zoom makes all the difference... in 35mm terms you have a max focal length of 360mm -- like carrying a massive zoom lens on an SLR. Can't count how many beautiful shots would have been impossible if I had been using an 5x zoom or less.
Pros:
- full creative modes (Av, TV, Manual, exposure adjustments) that are actually faster to adjust than my SLR, no fake "Manual" modes that lots of PAS's have, which are anything but Manual
- (it's still got all the scene modes, e.g. Landscape, Action, Portrait, etc. and most of the common ones are on the main dial so you don't have to cycle through them onscreen to get them quickly if you're not comfortable with the creative modes)
- lots of white balance options
- you manually flip-up the flash, only when you want to use it... I hate it when cameras automatically decide for me when to pop-up and use the flash (or you have to cycle through the flash buttons to get control of them) ... I know whether I want flash or not dammit... also you can adjust the flash intensity (great for using light flash on daytime shots in the shade)
- massive and beautiful 3-inch LCD
- form factor... compared to others in its class, i.e. PAS's that have great zoom and full creative modes, this was the smallest -- it actually fits in your pocket (bizarrely I've seen a bunch of reviews that say it's too big for your pocket -- not true at all as long as you're not wearing ridiculously tight pants), unlike those PAS's (including a lot of Canons) that are, to me, in no-man's-land because they're too big for a PAS and too small, not enough lens quality and w/o lens interchangeability to be a SLR
- has a jog dial! (like SLRs have)... so great, and not that many PAS's have it. Let's you very quickly review/search through tons of photos, and quickly change shooting parameters like ISO, aperture, shutter speed, instead of pushing pushing pushing buttons to get what you want
- the awesome Canon user interface -- I have tried all different brands and Canon is the best hands down
- image stabilization seemed to work pretty well
Cons:
Big Cons
- I do not like the AA battery as power source. This camera chews up AA batteries like no other... on one day when I took about 250+ pictures I went through 8 AA batteries. Granted: I probably should have bought a rechargeable AA system before I left, never tried that and also, the batteries for sale in Asia are cheap but they are absolute crap (even Western brands, although they were probably knockoffs). The high-quality $12 lithium AA's I bought in the US before I left lasted much longer, but still not that long.
- the flash has to sit there and get recharged by the batteries before you can shoot again. My guess is it takes about 3-5 seconds, which is an eternity when you're asking people to hold a pose or you've got a fleeting chance at a great photo opp... this actually caused me to miss a few good shots
- video -- you cannot zoom in or out once you start filming! I have no idea why not. Also, the video quality options are that of cameras from a few years ago.. can't shoot in HD, and can't shoot at a super-high rate of frames per second like some tiny Elphs from years ago can
Small cons
- can't shoot in RAW -- won't bother most people since most people just shoot JPGs but I will be moving to RAW soon
- a bit slow to focus, I have definitely seen better in lots of PAS cameras
- face detection was not as good as some other PAS's I've seen -- slow to recognize faces if it even recognized them at all -- although not a huge deal for me as I never rely on face detection to focus
- in the display review, there are four displays to cycle through -- the 4th is a "focus check" which zooms on the center of the photo (or face if detected). It's pointless -- it does nothing more than what you do anyway to check focus when you do a standard review, you zoom in using the zoom buttons and move around the picture to see what you want to check -- except it adds extra cumbersome steps. Canon should get rid of this -- all I want when I cycle through review display modes is the 3rd display -- to check the histogram and see what the camera chose if I'm not in full Manual (i.e. what ISO if I'm using auto-ISO, what shutter speed if I'm using aperture-priority, etc.)
- would be nice to have an exposure bracketing feature, but this is something you almost never see on PAS's anyway
Anyway, I gave thi






