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Summary: Ditch the SLR?
Review: As a creative picture taker, I was not about to throw a couple hundred bucks toward a digicam that only took webshots or Point-and-shoot snapshots. I wanted a camera that would take great pictures today and tomorrow and protect my investment. The S30 takes great pix in the Auto and Program modes (just point and shoot!) But for my creative side, this camera includes most of the features and manual overrides of the higher priced Canon G2. This gives the camera the ability to capture difficult and amazing shots. Exposure Lock, Shutter- and Aperature-priority, ISO settings up to 800 ASA. 3 metering modes. Long shutter times (up to 15s) with noise reduction. Great colors! The stitch assist mode and software make for *seamless* panoramas. Movies are more fun than I expected! The camera is a joy to use, *very* snappy especially for action shots when pre-metered. Have had it for a couple weeks, long enough to get 4x6 and 8x10 prints back from an online developer. A few of my better informed friends were highly impressed - would have been hard pressed to identify these as digital pix. Downsides: limited flash range and no hotshoe. Manual focusing is virually useless (uses the lo-res LCD). Buy a bigger flash and second battery. Very impressed and well worth the wait. No what do I do with the old SLR?
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Summary: The best digital camera ever!
Review: I got this camera for my birthday, and it is the best camera I've ever used. The quality of the pictures is great, and with a 128 memory card you can take up to 140 pictures. It has a movie option too which is so much fun to use. My friends and family love seeing the videos of them, and I send out digital photo albums all the time to everyone. I would highly recommend this camera to beginners or experienced photographers. People that have tried my camera are now ditching their older models to upgrade to this one. It's light, compact, and incredibly easy to learn to use.
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Summary: First digital camera
Review: This is my very first digital camera and I just got it about a month ago. I'm not really an expert on cameras but here are my views when it comes to the camera so far:
The camera is nice and compact but it is quite heavy so it is not that easy to carry it aroundin your pocket.
I have heard people complaining about the battery capacity. So far it has not been a problem for me but why didn't canon include som battery indicator?
It is nice to have a lens cover but it seems a bit fragile at times.
The multicontrol button/joystick is not always easy to operate. Apart from this I'm having a great time with the camera and the quality of the pictures are great.
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Summary: Great Little Camera
Review: I've had this camera for less than a week and I couldn't be more pleased. I use big 5MP Sony cameras at school and the little SC30 runs circles around them as far as features and ease of use goes. Be sure to pick up another battery and at least a 128Mb Flash Card. My only compliant is that the camera's size and viewfinder is a little small for my big head!
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Summary: Great Camera!
Review: I've owned the Canon Powershot S30 for about two months now and am still amazed daily at how well this little camera can take pictures! Pictures come out so clear it is amazing! The prints I have made from my computer look EXACTLY like professionally developed prints. All of my friends have been amazed at the quality and clarity, "You did this from a computer and digital camera!" they have often responded. Not only is the picture quality superb, but the ease of use is wonderful. The LCD screen features handy little guides that help to frame and focus your pictures just right. Pre-focusing lets you know if all your elements are right for the perfect picture. I haven't yet ventured into all the more advanced features of the S30 yet, but I hope to soon. From reading the owner's manual, there appears to be an endless amount of experimentation yet to be had. Suggestions for use of this camera include purchasing a bigger Compact flash card. I use of 256mb card and haven't completely filled it yet. Also look into an extra set of batteries because this camera can drain some power! These can be quite difficult to find, unlike many other Canon accessories. You only the original CANON brand battery. I have only been able to find this battery on the Canon website, but I have yet to check with the more upscale camera stores in my area. I would definitely recommend this camera to anyone wanting to print there own pictures. This camera has completely replaced by other non-digital Canon camera! A good accessory for this camera is a good quality photo camera. Epson has a wonderful model for under cost.
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Summary: Can this be the best digital camera on the market
Review: Having purchased 3 different digital cameras that I would put in the everyday users class, this camera easily beats out anything I've seen in the market or used before. Phenomenally simple to use in auto mode, just point and click, although you may find that pictures at night are not the best in this mode, no problem though just move the dial over to night pictures and viola you're the next Ansel Adams. I would recommend getting a Sandisk USB digital card reader to hook into your computer. Then all you need to do is pop out the card from the camera, slide it into your reader and it acts as another hard drive on your machine. It's 10 times easier then hooking the camera up to the computer to download pics. I would recommend anyone to purchase this computer.
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Summary: comparison to olympus c3040
Review: I just had my Olympus c3040 stolen, so now I need a new camera. I
borrowed a Canon S30 from one friend and an S40 from the other. I
have decided to go with Canon, and I am chosing the S30 over the S40
because it's faster in a couple of ways than the S40 due to smaller
image sizes. I am not ready to deal with 4 megapixel images yet.
Here's some more information on why I am not going back to Olympus. 1: The Olympus is slower in displaying pictures, focusing, getting
ready for the next shot, accessing menus, etc. The canon is just much
faster. 2: The LCD on the Canon shows you what you're going to see in the
final shot. E.g., if the shot is over-exposed, you can tell before
you take it, and you can see what will happen if you adjust the
exposure as you adjust the exposure. The Olympus LCD always looked
dark and off color to me and didn't seem to reflect reality, and
consequently I never used it except for macro mode. The Canon's LCD
seems very fast as you move the camera around for your next shot. I
will use the LCD for most shots on the Canon. 3: The LCD is still quite visible in outdoor lighting conditions. 4: The menus on the Canon are easily invoked and accessed, and sit on
top of the image you're composing instead of covering the image until
you've made your choice. Olympus menus are a pain to navigate, and
they are not very visible in the sun light, whereas Canon menus seem
to be right there where you need them. 5: Canon uses compact flash, olympus uses smart media. I had more
smart media cards go bad than you can believe, and smart media is more
espensive than compact flash. 6: The Canon's image histogram is a useful and helpful feature for
helping you take better shots. It's also very cool. 7: The Olympus is better in one crucial situation: low light pictures
are only possible if you are within flash range. I have pictures of
my daughter's indoor dance perforamnce that I took with my Olympus
last year, and now have similar pictures I took with the S30. The S30
ones need to be deleted - they are blurred because there wasn't enough
light. The Olympus took amazingly clear and crisp pictures in that
low light situation, even when fully zoomed. That's because its lens is
f/1.8 and the S30 is the more standard f/2.8. The Canon G2 has an
F/2.0 which is closer, but some of the other functions on that camera
are very slow, and that camera is too big and heavy. In summary, once I used the Canon for a while I couldn't bear the
thought of going back to the Olympus and smartmedia. The one thing
that worried me was the low light photos, but I think I can live
without that. I still have a good SLR camera that I can whip out on
those rare occasions ...
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Summary: No more film
Review: This is a great camera. It has an array of easy to use features that make set up for various situations very easy.
It has a tremendous light range, from bright daylight to dark interiors using default settings.
With 3MP images, I'd recommend at least 256MB of flash memory.
If you take a lot of pictures a second battery would be worthwhile. Taking 100 shots in a day was well beyond the limits of a single battery.
The biggest problem is the delay between pushing the button and the actual shutter snap. On moving objects you have to go to the sports mode(with lesser quality) or it will get away.
That said, I see no need to ever use a film camera again.
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Summary: Oversea Travel Friendly
Review: First of all, this camera really works great, as repeated stated by other reviewers. Just want to point out a few extra good things: 1. This camera's menu is highly customizable. You can embed your own picture and voice into the menu system. Most important to me, I can choose from most of the major languages in the world. If you are sending this to friends overseas, this would really help! 2. This camera can take video in both PAL and NTSC format, and the battery charger is both 110V and 220V compatible. These are also extremely important if you want to give it to friends in other contries, or simply bring it with you on your trip around the world. 3. The 'Macro' function of the S30 works perfect! I took many close-up pictures of flowers, and was really surprised by the professional quality of the photos! Overall, a great, 'oversea travel' friendly camera, and no, you don't need to spend extra money for the S40 simply to increase your downloading time.
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Summary: Everything you could want -- and more
Review: I've owned this camera for about 6 weeks and have taken more than 300 pictures. So far, it has performed admirably under a wide variety of situations. It has all of the options (shutter speed and aperture control, white balance, etc.) that my high end Canon SLR camera has -- and more. I doubt if I've scratched the surface yet. The quality is excellent (although keeping still the fraction of a second after you hit the shutter release takes some getting used to -- a few blurry pics at first). Macro option is incredible. Image compression can be set for very high resolution (good enough for reproduction in quality magazines) or lower resolution (for web images). ... The only minor complaint I have is that it is a very SMALL camera, especially when compared to my big hefty one, which takes some getting use to. People don't take you seriously as a photographer when you tote around this thing. Also, you cannot attach filters or auxiliary lenses (although a session in Photoshop will usually do the same thing). All in all, I am very pleased. In fact, I'm buying a second camera (exact same) for my partner who keeps "borrowing" the camera to take shots while I twiddle my thumbs. By the way --- you might be able to get this camera cheaper through other places on the internet, but be careful. There are a lot of rip off companies out there. With Amazon, you know you'll get the product in a timely fashion and they have excellent customer service if anything goes wrong. I have bought repeatedly through Amazon and have NEVER been dissatisfied.
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