Superb

I have owned the SD500 (basically identical to the 550 except for the lcd screen) and after over 7000 pictures, I'd still buy this camera again. For an easy-to-use, point-and-shoot camera, I feel there is nothing lacking here. I can't say enough about it, it's captured massive amounts of crystal clear, bright photos of countless events, parties, occasions, even just tinkering will still life's. It has also relegated my handheld DVR to collecting dust, since this takes passable video as well.

The only thing that I could ever bring up that I'd want—(and again, this is a point-and-shoot so this feature isn't expected) would be a zoom in the 10x range or so, but still, with 7.1 Mp. resolution you can get similar resuts to 10x zoom cameras that have only 5mp resolution. I have cropped and blown up to 8x10 size vivid crisp shots of indy cars that fill the frame, taken from row DD (about 30 rows up) where you can clearly read the name on the helmet—they look as if I was standing trackside, like something out of Sports Illustrated.
—Jim