Canon PowerShot SD550 Digital Elph Camera continues the tradition of its predecessor, the PowerShot SD500. It’s versatile, accurate, fun, and compact. This 7 megapixel digital camera offers a unique “My Color” feature and excellent photo result quality. With its 32MB internal memory, the SD550 also provides Secure Digital (SD) card slot for your extra storage. Video recording capability is available, but the movie will be saved as a motion JPEG files with VGA (640×480 pixels) quality at 30 fps. Other features include a large 2.5-inch LCD, 3x optical zoom, 7.7mm to 23.1mm zoom (a 35mm equivalent of 37-111mm zoom range) and corresponding maximum f-stops of f/2.8 to f/4.9.

Canon Powershot SD550 Digital Elph Camera is available at Amazon for $449.95.

The Canon PowerShot SD550 Digital Elph ($449.95 list) is the refreshed version of the very popular PowerShot SD500 Digital Elph—and in this case, new really does mean improved. Not only does it take great shots in a variety of situations, but its performance on our tests was better than that of the SD500. That makes the SD550 our Editor’s Choice for ultracompacts.

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