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In the review of Canon Powershot SD800 , DCResource writes “The SD800 is the first camera that I’ve tested with “face detection”. The point of FD is to get the camera to focus on your subject’s face, instead of on something else in the foreground or background. Since I don’t exactly have a group of people in my home office to use for testing, I displayed pictures on my 23″ LCD display to see how well it worked. Much to my surprise, the face detection system worked very, very well. It worked on adults and toddlers, even if they weren’t looking right at the camera. The metering system is also involved, ensuring that your subject is properly exposed. I guess this feature isn’t as gimmicky as I thought! The SD800’s digital zoom option adds the “Safety Zoom feature” that I first saw on the A710 IS. This warns you when you pass the point where image quality is degraded. When you’re shooting at the highest resolution that starts as soon as digital zoom kicks in, but if you’re using a lower resolution you can use it for a little while before that happens (e.g. you can go up to 7.3X total zoom at the M3/postcard resolution)”.

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