Great beginner's camera

First First, I have to admit that I am not a camera expert, but would call me rather than technical layman who likes to (and many) snapshots of his family and on vacation, but in terms of quality of the images on the "intelligence" and simple handling its camera is instructed.

And this is absolutely the case with the Canon PowerShot.
It combines the following absolutely essential for me advantages:

-You Is very small, extremely light and handy
-By Quick trigger speed toll suitable for snapshots
-Quick Change between photo and video function with extra button on the camera (this is spontaneous video recordings possible)
-She Has a 5x zoom, even with video works
-In addition, you can fold by the special 10 Zoom plus (this is better than a conventional digital zoom) without appreciable loss of quality a motive pick up even closer
-In The "Live Mode" are changes that occur while the numerous adjustment possibilities, immediately visible on the screen, this is just for a photo layman like me great (almost like a small school of photography)
-She Has an absolutely self-explanatory intuitive operation and menu navigation
-An extra help button on the back of the camera provides the "Operation Quick Start Guide" to always have (which I find really great !!)
-You Provides much automatically and can also adapt to poor lighting conditions
-She Has an extra anti-shake
-The Picture quality surpasses my expectations

In short, this is for me the absolutely perfect camera, great to take away on vacation, extremely light in the luggage, even video-capable and able to automatically make the most of my snapshots.

The following nice special effects invite, in addition to "normal" photography also to be creative:

-Farbverstärkung (The colors are strong)
-Postereffekt (Recording looks like an old poster or illustration from)
-Fischaugeneffekt (Distorted recording)
-Miniatureffekt (Only a selected image area is in focus, the rest is blurred)
-Spielzeugkameraeffekt (The corners are darker and fuzzier)
-Monochrome Effects (pictures in black and white, sepia or blue and white)

What I personally find great, is the Red-eye Correction, where you can edit photos with red eyes later on the camera and correct.

The only minor drawback I find that the manual is only available in digital form, I'd rather have a printed version.

Otherwise this camera is in my opinion the perfect camera for snapshots and "always with you" have to, for beginners and photographic amateur like me, it provides great assistance, brings out my pictures automatically out the best possible result, is an absolute value for Pops and I can from this point fully recommend

PS: A memory card must be purchased separately to the camera is suitable for SD, SDHC or SDXC cards