Customer Reviews

Canon Sure Shot Z180u Date Kit

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This is one of the best point&shoot camera, Auto focus works perfectly fine, it just requires little practice.

Night shot picture quality is unbelievable. Very Sharp and natural colors and big zoom.

I would highly recommend this camera, just spend little time to learn how to get steady green light(focus) and you are good to go.

I'm pleased with the purchase. I bought this camera just under two years ago when I was getting ready for a trip abroad.

I spent six months in England, with five weeks travelling around Europe with this camera in its case on my belt. It's very sturdy if nothing else, between the trains, planes, hostels, and general bustle I'm very pleased with how well it held up. Nothing on it broke.

I probably took at least 400 pictures during my trip, if not more. Sure I've had to swap out batteries on one or two occasions in the two years I've had it, but my general feeling is that the batteries are holding up quite well.

The zoom on this camera is very nice. It's one of the better zooms I've seen on a simple camera of this type, or at least it was back when I bought it.

It also has several features that older film cameras do not, such as a timer that you can set before running to get in your own picture, or settings to take "Portraits" or "Night shots."

I know that this camera cannot compare to professional cameras, I know that it doesn't have all the frills of the new digital cameras, and I am not trying to compare it to those. I'm not a professional photographer, so I don't know how to use a camera with exchangable lenses and whatnot. I don't want a digital for personal and professional reasons. For a traditional film camera, this one is the best I've ever used.

BOTTOM LINE: Good quality photos, a sturdy build, excellent zoom lens, useful and easy to use features, and long battery life make this camera an excellent choice if you want a traditional film camera with a few perks.

Very good camera. This was a present for my wife as she needed a new camera. She picked it out and liked that it came as a complete kit. Directions can be hard to follow at times and could be printed larger. Takes some getting used to. Zoom lense works great and takes good pictures. Where the on-off button is so close to the shutter, you have to be careful that you don't accidentally shut the camera off. She is very satisfied with it.

This is an excellent film camera with a long zoom that comes in handy. I have had pictures developed in digital format (on CD) that rival a good digital camera. Having the date imprinted on your photos is a nice feature to help you remember when they were taken, years later. The only difficulty I have had is that the camera does not seem to accept 800 speed film. However, it works just fine with 200 or 400 speed.

Bought this camera to have better print pictures than what I get with the digital. I've tried using it in every mode AUTO, close-up, etc. but the autofocus never works so most of the pictures come out blurry!

My older simpler camera took better pictures.

I was looking for the longest 35mm film zoom camera that was available for sale to the average person. I own a Konica 35mm film SLR camera with removable lenses, but, I wanted a long range zoom camera for the convience factor. The Canon Z180u zoom camera has the longest zoom lenses available for sale; 38mm to 180mm. It has many options--flash or no flash; manual or automatic; "redeye" reduction; date imprint to include year, month, day, hour and minute. Compact,sturdy, well made, durable, with a nice camera case, multi-language instructions, and an automatic lenses cover when the camera is turned off. The camera is easy to use and after a few minutes of reading the instructions, almost anyone should have no trouble taking pictures like a professional. The eyepiece to look at the subject being photographed is excellent. Canon is trusted name in cameras and the Z180u lives up to the reputation. Due to the fact that digital is rapidly replacing film, this camera is becoming very hard to find. I got mine at Cameforless in New York City, NY USA through Amazon. Com. I recommend highly the Canon Sure Shot Z180u Date Camera, Cameforless, and Amazon. This is a great camera for those film pictures that range from close-up to long-range. Get it while you can, because when they are gone, that's it.

I just bought this camera before making a trip to Disney and I absolutely love it. My pictures were just beautiful. They were very clear and very sharp. This is a really nice camera for anyone.

I was very happy to find this camera because it is no longer made by Canon. Several years ago I purchased one brand new for my wife, but the receding lens shield and the zoom button became inoperable. She wanted something very simple to operate and did not want to go digital. She is not a "techie" and did not want to go through a steep learning curve. In short, for a replacement, she wanted THE SAME CAMERA! One source had a new camera, but it was more expensive than the one I had purchased brand new several years ago. This was one of the few used cameras of this model that I found, and it sounded like the best one - plus the price was right. It arrived promptly, and it looks and works like new! My wife is delighted with it. For those who still like to shoot film and are basically "point-and-shoot" photographers, this is a great camera - and the 180 zoom gives you greater range than most such cameras. I and my wife highly recommend it - if you can get it! We were lucky, and we will certainly revisit Amazon.com when we are in the market for a hard-to-find product.

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The Canon Sure Shot 35mm is the best of all compact film cameras. For two years, this camera was my mainstay. Simple in design and function, the Sureshot provides dependable sure shots. The self-timer comes in handy.

My last Canon 35 mm point-and-shoot was the 115U, which took great photos but couldn't take a joke, as it quit working after falling onto an asphalt parking lot in Ireland this past summer. So far, I have only put one roll of film through the 180U, but the picture quality is at least as good as the 115U. Two concerns: The camera is quite bulky (thickness); and Canon recommends 400-speed film which is grainier than the 200-speed that I prefer. Having owned a Nikon F4 SLR and complete complement of Nikon lenses for years, I find that the 115U/180U and a Canon 370Z APS are ideal travel cameras and take great pictures under pretty much all conditions. Some of the photos that I have taken with these cameras will be used as illustrations in college textbooks. I really wanted to rate the 180U at 4-1/2 stars, but could only choose between 4 and 5 stars.