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Summary: Small and Light and Powerful too.
Review: I must admit that I am biased towards Canon. I have never had a Canon product I did not like. That feeling continues with my Power Shot S30. The one feature which delights me most is the view-finder. Now, that does not sound like much, but for me it is great. My last $800.00 digital marvel did not have a view-finder and the LCD screen was worthless as soon as twilight approached. Even the fact the the Canon's other features are better and easier to use, the view-finder means that I can use all of those features without banging my head against the nearest hard object in frustration. And better and easier those features are, from the 3x optical zoom to the ability to change to shutter priority.If the S30 has the same quality as my four previous Canon printers and my Canon SLR, and I have no doubt that it does, I'll be very, very happy.
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Summary: great camera
Review: I had an s10 for 6 months but it didn't do too well indoors with colors and blurred if the subject was moving. The s30 can handle so many more situations and does it all so much better. I've used the movie feature way more then I thought I would. I've been real happy with it so far.
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Summary: Canon Powershot S30 is for beginners, too!
Review: I was worried about buying a higher mega-pixel camera than the 1.3 mpixel owned previously; fearing the technology would overwhelm me! Not so with this model. The auto photo features are perfect for when I don't have time to figure out the manual dials. Although I would prefer a less cumbersome way of plugging in to an alternative power source, the basic features of this camera are great. I just printed a 4x6 photo on photo paper with amazing results! Well worth the money. This is a sturdy little camera for beginners and photobugs alike. I will enjoy figuring this one out. My family is already sick of me snapping shot after shot. Nicely done, Canon!
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Summary: Wonderful.
Review: This is a very sturdy little camera, the mid-level entry in Canon's "S" line. It features great optics and a decent optical & digital zoom combination, as well as awesome 3 megapixel resolution (enlargements of 11" x 14" are no problem). If you had to buy one digital camera for all your needs, chances are you'd find the S30 a satisfying choice. It does require a 2nd battery and a larger memory card to be ready to go, but aside from that, it's nearly perfect.
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Summary: Fantastic camera!
Review: This is one spectacular camera for the novice photographer! When I was looking at digital cameras online, I was stuck between choosing from the S30 or the S330, both from Canon. When I went to a store and physically saw the 2 models, I immediately knew I liked the S30 better. The solid silver color was much shiner than the S330's duller and darker silver color. The S30 also felt much more like a camera when holding it. Overall, I am happy that I chose the S30.
It is so easy to use and the zoom can take very detailed pictures. The night time scene is one particular option I would like to point out. I just discovered this, so I'm not sure if this works with other cameras as well. If you switch to the night scene option and you photograph a pitch dark area, the camera is able to make out all the actual colors of the thing you're photographing instead of producing a dark picture. This is great for concerts (of course, there's a very big noticable bright flash), but it might be a drawback if you were really aiming to take pictures of the night time. I give it a 4 stars instead of a 5 because of it's problem with battery and my trouble installing the software. If you plan to use this camera for one whole day, you will most certainly need extra batteries. I used the camera for maybe about 2 hours straight before the battery totally went dead (and I fully charged the batteries before initial use too). I also experienced a little trouble installing the TWAIN drivers that are needed if you want to download the pictures from your camera to your computer. I use Windows 98 and for some odd reason, my the manual's instruction didn't work for me. I had to figure this out some other way to install the drivers. Other those 2 minor points, this camera is spectacular!
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: My wife and I got this as a Christmas present from relatives so we could email lots of pictures of our newborn baby to family. I was planning on buying a digital camera for that reason (and others), but I planned to search for a rock bottom price on a entry level camera, being fairly new to digital photography. Once I saw this one though, I was absolutely blown away. It's very small, like a small 35mm camera, and it's light as a feather, yet it's constructed very solid with a very cool metal exterior. The resolution is so good that we are not only emailing the pics and saving them on our computer (which pretty much any digital camera can do), but we're ordering high resolution prints of the JPG's that are better than any pics I took with my 35mm camera. It's nothing but digital for me from now on! This way I take as many pics as I possibly can and don't worry about wasting film or running out. I'm having a blast editing the pics too, it makes me feel like a real photography expert. I know I've barely scratched the surface of what this camera can do-- I haven't taken movies but I have a digital camcorder so I don't need that feature (although it's nice to have and I'm sure to experiment someday). Although I couldn't afford to shell out the big bucks to buy a camera this nice for myself, we're so happy to have it.
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Summary: Great little workhorse camera
Review: Well, i just picked this camera up yesterday after returning a Olympus c-3020 that I had bought 2 days prior.
The reason I got the Olympus first was I thought I wanted to be able to use AA batteries because of availability and I thought that the rechargable one that came with the Canon would not alow me to take that many pictures before having to recharge the battery. Boy was I mistaken!!!
The Olympus only gave me about 30 pictures before i had to replace the batteries. Well after tallying up what batteries were going to set me back ( YIKES ) and visiting Canon's web site to look at the PDF manual to see how long the Lithium-Ion battery lasted (about 150 pics acording to the manual) I imeditately packed up the Olympus at took it back to the store and exchanged it for the Canon S-30.
I also picked up a 128 mb CF card at the same time so I can be assured of enough storage to capture everything I might want to take a picture of on vactions, special events etc...
I am very happy with the way the camera feels ie. the brushed aluminum case (all metal...no plastic)
The picture quality is phenomenal after only a few hours of goofing around with it here at home. I can only imagine what the results will be after i really learn all the little cool things this baby can do.
I highly recomend this camera to anyone looking for a mid priced, med-high megapixel camera.
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Summary: Great Camera!!!
Review: We've had this camera for about a month and a half...I've taken approximately 200 pics with it. Awesome is all I can say...I've been into photography for about 15 years. My film camera I spent $[money] on between body, lenses, and flash (a Nikon N70, 2 zoom lenses and a zoom flash). The Canon S30 takes just as good pictures and its easy enough to use that my wife can also use it. Downloading pics to the computer takes 1 or 2 seconds. I can take a picture, download and post it to the internet in less than 4 minutes. Quality is outstanding. I love this camera. I still have film in my Nikon from my sons birth that I haven't taken out to get developed yet. And unlike my anal photo way that I am, it doesn't bother me because we have the Canon S30. One other great feature I was able to use while taking pics at the hospital, was the black and white feature. Just turn the dial and take black and white pictures of a mother with her new baby. One last thing: upgrade to a bigger flash card, I found a 128MG card for $[money] and I also purchased a 2nd battery for $[money]. Both at other online stores...The battery doesn't take long to charge, but if your in the middle of photo taking it is nice to have an extra...
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Summary: Time to let go my film camera!
Review: Bought this camera a month ago along with a 128MB sandisk. Really enjoyed it. Both my wife and I are taking many more pictures and in more occasions than before.
The focus is very sharp and len is pretty fast. The picture resolution is just blowing you up.
I found Costco has a print service for digital pictures, 20c for each print. So we tends to take 50 or 100 pictures at once and then select a few for print. You can not tell this is a print from digital camera, except the resolution is astonishing. It takes 30 seconds video clips as well, though somehow the focus is not that great and with low resolution, the video looks
pretty fuzzy. Will stay with static picture taking.
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Summary: Excellent choice!
Review: "Excellent choice!"
After lots of shopping around, we finally decided on the S30.. boy! was it a good decision! This camera's got it all.. we bought ours at eCost.com (good online experience at a great price!).. it comes with a 16Mb CF card which is nice, but if you can afford it, get an additional 32 or 64Mb CF card. The 30-sec (max) video clips are also sweet! The resolution is really decent and images quality is fantastic. For the money, this is a great deal!
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