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Summary: Touring Afghanistan
Review: I bought the camera due to its perfect balance between size and picture quality. I've been deployed in Afghanistan since September 02 and this camera has been with me every step of the way. I have been totally satisfied and like some of the other raters, I also recommend a larger memory stick and spare battery.
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Summary: Great camera, needs better batteries
Review: Great size -- I make photographs more often because this is easy to carry. Great pictures -- for the sake of file size, I don't need more than 2 Mbyte. Good ruggedness -- the metal case protects the camera well and looks good. Bad battery life -- I have two rechargeable batteries and usually need both to fill up a 32 MByte compact-flash card with about 50 photos using the LCD display. I recognize that the small size of the camera is made possible by smaller batteries, and smaller batteries mean shorter battery life, but the battery life limits the usefulness of the camera.
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Summary: Awesome. Portable. Love It!
Review: This camera is a dream. It does everything you want it to and more.. It even auto-flips your photos so everything is right-sideup! The camera works flawlessly with windows XP and Macs and it is so easy to create photos or even MOVIES. Plus it's so small that you can easily carry it around without having to string it around your neck, looking like a tourist.
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Summary: Best small camera in it's class and price range.
Review: I didn't give this camera 5 stars but it deserves 4 1/2 which means I really like it and recommend it over the Casio Exilim EX-S2 which is half as thick. Both cameras were candidates for purchase until I discovered the Canon Powershot S200 produced better pictures for enlargement.I went ahead and purchased it for snapping pictures of machine parts which can be zoomed in on for greater detail through the viewer on the back.
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Summary: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Review: You want the truth, can you handle the truth? Let's begin with my title, "The good, the bad, and the ugly"...THE UGLY-well, there is no ugly. The camera looks that good. Just taking the camera with you will make you cool (I mean, not that I needed any help or anything, but if you do, that's ok and this is the camera for you). The GOOD-for a camera the size of a, actually its the only little rectangular shaped thing I own that small. It is small, period. I carry it in my front jeans pocket when I go out and pretty much don't know its there. I bought this camera knowing that it will be going with me on trips to Asia, and Europe and around town. I don't like being a "tourist" (ie camera on shoulder, carry bags), so this camera is a dream. I will add, it is surprisingly durable as well, you can tell as soon as you hold it. OK, the Pictures. LCD screen, awesome. Bright, crisp, wish my TV was that good, hmmmm...wish my monitor was that good. The photos, here is the deal. You need to learn how to take pictures with the camera. Outdoors, no biggie. Takes great great pictures. I have even entered some in contests. Indoors-a little bit of a bummer. My only real gripe with the camera. Indoor pictures with any camera are not the easiest, but with digital, even harder. I don't know about other digitals, but with the elph, lots of red eye and dark background. A little trick-indoors in sufficient lighting situations, shut the flash OFF, and what you see in the LCD is what you get, usually a better picture than with flash. With practice indoor shots will be sufficient. Batteries, Cannon NB-1LH. Right. Because you don't know what that means, let me tell you. You are not going to find them at Target, or 7-11. They work pretty well though and the camera comes with a charger and one battery. You probably won't buy an extra battery now, but later you will want an extra battery...trust me, I'm telling you. Oh by the way...I am not a Cannon rep or anything, but ONLY buy the Cannon NB-1LH battery-again just trust me and listen. 8MB memory card-The camera comes with it, and it is enough memory for you to realize the camera is the greatest thing since sliced bread- you will want a bigger memory card. Well, in conclusion: Would I buy this camera again? 100% Yes. The camera is just awesome. You will have so so so much fun with it. That I can guarantee. Great pictures, video mode (with GOOD sound quality (only 12 seconds though)), comes with cables to hook up to the TV, probably one of the greatest things I have ever bought. It is one of those deals where after buying it, you won't know how you lived without it before. I don't know if a camera can add to the quality of a persons life, but you will definitely have more fun. By the way, be prepared for every person you take a picture of to want to see your camera. Prepare yourself now for the fact you are going to have other peoples fingerprints all over it. :) Peace out, and enjoy life!~
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Summary: An awesome product, really.
Review: The best digitals still can't quite match the best film cameras for those most challenging of shots. But unless you're a professional photographer, you won't even notice the subtle differences, much less appreciate them. For the shots taken by the rest of us, a camera like the Canon S200 is all we'll ever need.The little Canon S200 Elph is remarkable. When you first take it out of the box and hold it, you'll know you haven't made a mistake. It's like a little jewel, artfully designed, solidly constructed. The metallic body is all shimmery and shiny and, well ... Dare I say "precious"? (If Gollum had one of these, he'd forget all about that stupid ring.) Stop reading the reviews and order one now. If you're disappointed, don't take it back, go see a shrink. You have issues. Seriously.
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Summary: More features and fun than expected
Review: I read every review I could get my hands on about this camera and am glad I did, because everyone is right about the S200, it is great. Some reviewers said you couldn't turn off the flash, well you can. The camera comes with a good user guide and also good software. I was shooting pictures in about 15 min. and downloading to my computer in about a hour. This is my 2nd digital camera and it is far superior to my 1mp HP 100 which 2 years ago cost me about the same. The s200 elph has a nice solid feeling. I feel that I have made an excellent choice in digital photograpy.
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Summary: Excellent Camera
Review: I love how compact it is as I always missed out on taking pictures of places I`ve been because I didn`t want to LUG THE OLE CAMERA . 2 Mega Pixels are fine for "average joe" picture taking , I actually use less resolution (a feature the camera has) because most of my pics are for the computer or my website ... and don`t need such large files.
Excellent camera for the price as of jan 3rd 2003 (I wrote date coz things change quick in this New Age world of ours
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Summary: What a Sweetie-Pie!
Review: It took me a long time to decide to "go digital" and even longer to figure out which specific camera to buy. I'm fairly techno-crippled (faxes and microwaves still seem like magic to me and I still have to rely on my children to program my VCR). Because of my limitations I felt positively overwhelmed by the information to consider when I tried to pick which digital camera to buy. I read as much technical information as I could stand (not very much) and listened to the advice of family and friends until my eyes glazed over. Finally I decided to purchase this particular camera for several reasons. First, Canon was a brand of camera I'd owned and liked in the past; second, this model seemed to deliver the most features at the lowest price; and finally it looks good and has a cute name (pause while eyes of the tecno-literate roll). The day after I got the camera I took it with me on a family vacation. I started taking pictures almost right away -- although figuring out how to download the software onto my laptop took a bit of time and exploring all the things I can do with the pictures (like printing and emailing) is still in the works. But I don't think any of this is a problem of the product -- everything in the documentation seems clear enough that even a moron like me ought to be able to put this together (eventually). Here are some of the things even I can do already -- 1) I take pictures, choose which shots I don't like, delete them right away and take a new picture. This is great if you have a nine-year old who loves to ham it up for photos (i.e., now mommy is going to take this picture again. This time without the silly faces). This is great for posed shots -- now you can be sure you got that great picture of your family in front of Cinderella's castle BEFORE you walk away. 2) I can hook up the camera to my computer, download pictures and enlarge them to see if I still like them (you can't see on the itty bitty screen on the camera if someone has thier eyes closed for example). I delete pictures I don't like. I may not be able to take a picture over at this point but I used to pay to have the shot developed only to throw the picture away later. What a waste. Plus now I only print the best of the best and only what I need. 3) I can (and do) carry the camera everywhere. This camera is about the size of a double deck of cards. It tucks in a pocket or purse (it even fit in my tiny evening bag along with my lipstick and credit card). I found I was much more likely to take this little camera with me and got some great picures I might have missed otherwise. 4) I had no problems figuring out how to charge the battery, put the battery in the camera and load the flashcard (I did get the 128MB flashcard and never ran out of room). It was a bit more difficult figuring out how to hook the camera to the computer and download the pictures but again, I think these are mostly my limitations not the product's or the documentation. Some disapointments, though not unexpected, were that it is hard to take "action" shots as there is a delay between pushing the button and taking the picture that is hard to get used to. Also, sometimes I accidentally flipped the switch and was taking motion pictures instead of still pictures. It was hard to figure out how to delete the motion pictures I did not want and I did miss the still photos I had wanted to take. It will probably be a few years before digital photography catches up to film photography in quality and at a price the average user can afford, but in the meantime this is a great camera to learn with while still capturing your memorable moments in photos. I highly recommend this camera for people like me who are not particularly good with new technologies.
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Summary: As easy as it gets
Review: Charge the battery and you are ready to go. This is as easy a digital camera as you will find. The 2.1 Mega-Pixel is not the greatest, however, for the average user that wants a fairly inexpensive camera, this is a good choice.
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