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Canon PowerShot SD 1000 7.1 Megapixel Digital Camera - Electronics Gear Review

Let me tell you about a very neglected piece of gear that never gets a gear review because sometimes folks think that electronics gear isn’t really outdoor gear. Let me tell you, they are wrong. The gear I’m talking about is your trusty digital camera — and I consider gear like this to be critical gear because when you have an adventure outdoors, nothing helps you reminisce like browsing the pics you took while you were out there in it. So just FYI — you’ll be seeing more of this kind of gear on GEAR.com for this reason: Just because you can’t mount your ski bindings on something, doesn’t mean it isn’t gear. And I write about the gear I rely on every day, and that includes a killer digital camera. And that’s what the Canon PowerShot SD1000 is — a killer digital camera. Reason #1 It is tiny. And when you are skinning up Patsey Marley ridge in Little Cottonwood Canyon, you definitely don’t want to be hefting heavy, bulky camera gear on your person or in your pack. We fuss so much over the weight of our skis, bindings, boots, packs, gore-tex jackets, ski helmets, poles. Heck, I even knew guys that tore the tongues out of their boots and drilled holes in the plastic shells just to reduce weight! But then we grab any old camera and stuff it in our pack. Well, the Canon PowerShot SD1000 is only 4.4 ounces so I definitely think it fits into the “lightweight” category. It is less than an inch thick (0.8 inc...Read more...

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