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Summary: Too Cool to Fool
Review: I still havent delved into the cameras compensation mode but this Camera could not be simpler to use. Its still a bit pricey but compared to all the other digital cameras of its kind (and ive seen many) its worth the price. I think the LCD display takes too much battery power and the flash is too close to the lens but it is a very handy and smart camera. If you like small and well constructed things the likes of how Macintosh makes, (IPOD)you will like this camera. Its ability to take a good picture is 90% and to take the picture you want is 80%. Meaning youve got to put some work into changing the presets to get what you were hoping for but the beauty of digital is that its so manipulable.
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Summary: Beautiful small package
Review: Canon is coming close to perfection here. Any smaller and it would be difficult to operate with adult hands.Skip the Canon software and use a compact flash card reader for getting originals into your computer. If you're a Mac user, Cameraid and GraphicConverter will handle most beginner needs. Buy a larger CF card and at least one spare battery. If you don't have a computer or don't know how to use the one you own, don't bother with any digital camera. And No, Email and web browsing don't count as knowing how to use a computer.
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Summary: Not compatible with Mac OS 9.0,9.1 or 9.2
Review: I had to return my camera after spending time with Canon support because their software would not work with any Mac 9. OS. They acknowleged on the third call that they were trying to write a fix so it would work but several days later they still had no patch. Apparently, the software works with the MAC 10.OS. It seemed like a nifty little camera but I wanted to be able to edit pictures on my computer.
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Summary: Canon S230
Review: My experience is that 2.1 mepixel digital camera can produce equal to or better 8"x10" picture than 35mm camera(I used to do wedding photo's). Thus I didn't need a digital camera above 3.2 mp. I wanted a good balance of weight/size, and cost, and features. S230 weight/size is unmatched with beautiful stainless steel brushed face. The camera is full of great features: new image processing system, good lense, new focusing system, strong Li-I battery, and digital camera with adequate camcorder features. Camcorder feature is very high quality though bit choppy. The Flash, the weakest side of any point-and-shoot camera, is much better than my previous digital camera (Canon S10). Only feature I wished it has is external flash hotsynch wire connection. New Zoombrowser software is much better in handling database then previous versions, but lacks grace. Mouse Scroll does not work. Awkward way of deleting shots from the camera after downloading. Should have given Adobe Photo Element instead of Archsoft stuff.
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Summary: powerful tiny point and shoot
Review: You cannot beat this camera for size/performance ratio. It's tiny, the spapshots are generally good, the controls are easy to use and powerful, and it's got great start up and shot to shot times. I'm not totally convinced by the AiAF (autofocus) yet. Some shots I have taken seem a bit blurry, when I know the subject was focused properly. Mostly low light shots it seems. The size is perfect. Stealthy. Keep it in your pocket and only those with a keen eye notice when you pull it out. You'll be taking more shots than you ever thought possible. Manual control of the camera is also powerful for a small point and shoot. There is a long shutter setting up to 15 seconds. There are manual exposure, white balance and ISO settings. Macros are good. The panorama setting is awesome, string together many picts for a great 360 shot. Movies are good too. Long! Best of all I love how the camera remembers its last setting so that when you power it off and back on it's right where you left it. Some issues however: 1. The flash is weak. It's good if your just feet away from the subject, but that's about it. If you want to catch something in the distance at night your going to have to turn the flash off and pump up the exposure. Get a tripod for this. 2. Red eye galore. The red eye prevention doesn't appear to work very well.
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Summary: Excellent piece of hardware -- WELL worth the wait!
Review: I recieved an Olympus C-3000 last year for Christmas. I had already been shopping around, and knew what I really wanted was the Canon S30 based on image quality. I didn't want a camera (like the C3000Z) that required me to "fix" the color on every picture I took. (The C3000Z images really weren't that good.) I quickly sold the C3000Z and held off buying a digital camera for another year until the S30 price came down a bit. Enter the S230, which I ended up buying instead. I took the S230 with me on vacation to Disney/MGM/Epcot/Islands of Adventure/etc. last week, and I LOVE THIS CAMERA. The pictures it took make me look like a pro. Even the night shots of the Epcot laser/light/fireworks show came out spectacular. What impressed me the most was how quickly the camera was able to take pictures and write them to memory. The fireworks pictures frame together perfectly, showing a launch, rise, and glorious explosion of each rocket. Other well-done feature include the stitching of pictures into panoramic photos, cropping of videos on-camera, and the overall intuitive design of the buttons and menus. You can just about use every feature of the camera without ever reading the manual. Very easy to use. The LCD display is crisp and relatively easy to view in daylight. I'd love a slightly larger LCD, but it would make the camera larger and heavier. The battery life (I bought a second one for travel) is excellent, and the charge time is pretty quick, too. A single charge pretty much lasted me an entire day (14 hrs), which included lots and lots of power cycles (on/off). I will say that turning the camera on and off eats battery quickly (probably because of the mechanics and such to open the lens), but if you just let the auto-power off do its thing, you'll be happy. In my case, it rained a fair bit, so I turned it on and off more often. I would like to see some better software included, and I did run into a problem with some corrupted images on one of my CF cards that caused the software to BSOD my system, but I'm sure it's a defective CF card (my other 4 cards work fine). Still, some error handling would have been nice in the software as opposed to blue-screening my system. (Try it sometime -- pull the USB cable out while it's transferring pics... boom!) More so, the movies look better than many of the dedicated digital video cameras I've seen in years past. For the money, this camera is a _pure_gem_.
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Summary: A skier's digital camera
Review: My Cannon S230 arrived last week... I took it skiing today and it is perfect for the outdoors... The size is the most incredible and useful thing about it... it's a camera that you don't have to debate whether it's worth lugging around... you'll forget that you are carrying it... Even though it's tiny, it was pretty easy to use with gloves on... the auto-closing lens "cap" is key, and it's difficult to turn the camera on by mistake. The battery lasted all day in the cold...
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Summary: Best 3.2 Mega Pixel Camera for it's size.
Review: I replaced an old Olympus D340 with the S230. The pictures are fantastic and the video is also very good. It is easy to use and is smaller than the S330 and the S200. You won't be disappointed. I recommend that you buy a 256mb card since each 30 seconds of video at 640x480 is about 11.5mb. My 128mb cards get filled up fast when taking video.
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Summary: Excellent compact camera
Review: I got this IXUS V3(powershot s230 ELPH)just 2 nights ago and has taken close to 150 shots. This is my first digital camera which i got after months of research. I was skeptical about the small size as it makes the handling of the camera a lot harder but it turned out otherwise. The photo quality was astonishing for both indoor and out door shots.Pictures taken in perfect darkness turned out as if i had taken them during the day while day-shots turned out vividly. I was disappointed by the flash when taking macro objects as the falsh did not trottle down, so, i ended up taking it in manual mode without flash. Having used a manual SLR camera before, I chose to ues the manual mode when taking indoor shots, giving me the freedom of deciding how i would like the photo to turn out( if you find that indoor shots turn out blur, do increase the ISO speed in manual). One thing i felt was missing was the apature mode. Red eye was not really a problem for me(it has yet to turn up in any of my shots). Playing the pictures back on the television is not a problem as long as you have a cd-rw drive. You can burn it as a VCD using the provided video editing software. It performs very well as a point and shoot camera but, I would recommend at least a 128 mb card.
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Summary: For portability/picture quality this is the best on the mkt
Review: OK, there are some cameras with higher megapixels, some that are cheaper, some with better lenses and all that, but if you are looking for a camera that you'll actually take with you anywhere and gives high quality digital images, there is no substitute for this. If you just want to take some special pics anywhere, this is it. Ease of use (but also some very advanced features for a more advanced photographer) and highly compact make this the camera that anyone can use and the photo quality is better than anything in this price range. At 3.2 MP, you don't need a huge zoom as you just crop what you want later. Just get it, you won't be disappointed...
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