Canon PowerShot SX170 Voucher

John Sturgeon (Monterey, California) : As some of you know, the Canon SX100 series are my favorite cameras. I always carry the latest model with me in a video-camera-shoulder-bag (i.e. - "purse" for dudes,) everyday, wherever I go. I have owned and used all of them from the SX100 to the SX160. I have long-considered the Canon SX100 line of cameras to be "The Best 2-AA-Battery All-Purpose Travel and Field Cameras Ever Made." I have posted 5-star reviews of both the SX150 and SX160 here on Amazon during the last two years, and I have made it abundantly clear why I feel so strongly favorable of them.

tcaseyrochester "tcaseyrochester" (Upstate NY) : Some have criticized the change from AA sized batteries to a Canon propriety battery pack. Hogwash. Technology is going to move forward and the use of a battery pack simply does not mean this camera is any less useful. When you travel into the great whatever with an older camera you thought ahead and took extra batteries with you. Now you think ahead and make sure your battery is charged and yes if you will be away from an outlet you take as many extra battery packs as you need. I am guilty of not thinking ahead plenty of times with the AA technology with no means of stopping into a store to buy more, this camera is no different.

Stanley Torow "st" (Milford CT) : Some reviewers lament the change from AA batteries to proprietary lithium-ion compared with the previous model, SX160. Too bad! End-of-the-world hyperbole is so boring. Canon evidently decided the market for AA-dependent cameras is virtually dead outside the Third World. Canon can now design their electronics without the vagaries of various AA battery brands and types, eg, alkaline vs. NiMH. Yes, the NB-6L battery costs more--so what else is new? If you don't like it, buy something else and leave me out of your crusade.