l Excellent

l 8.0 out of 10

The good: Great performance and image quality; solid image stabilization; face detection.

The bad: No manual exposure controls; on/off button a bit awkward; noisy images at ISO 1,600.

The bottom line: The Canon PowerShot SD 850 IS has just about everything you'd want in a point-and-shoot.

Specs: Compact, 8 megapixels, 4 x, 2.5 in LCD display, 32 MB - SD Memory Card