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Money Incredibly well spent

Advantages: 10x Optical Zoom, Incredible Movie Caption, Excellent Image Stabiliser, Very easy to produce great photos, shoots very well in light and dark conditions
Disadvantages: Only 3.2 megapixels, no option for attachable flash

...at various products. The Canon Powershot S1 IS came out top every time for me. I looked at dpreview and read a lot about other contenders - but the Sony equivilents didn't have movie capabilty, or a decent enough zoom, so I went for the Canon. I'm so glad it's untrue. Firstly, if you're going to buy any digital camera make sure you don't let yourself down by having a poor memory card. I bought a 1Gb Ultra II Sandisk card in order to get very good ...
...quality - 640 x 480 30fps superfine quality), and also for the rapid successive shots I would probably take for sports. Now, the camera. Firstly, the zoom is phenomenal. It's a 10x optical zoom, with 3.2 digital zoom. However, it's no good having a brilliant zoom with little loss of quality (even at 32x with the digital zoom encompassed in) unless the camera can take a still picture. The Image stabiliser is the best I have ever come across - I've ...

Neil_C 25.06.2004 · Read full review
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A big zoom helps with the 3 r's

Advantages: Value for money and features
Disadvantages: Slow autofocus on max zoom in dim light

...I dusted off my old Canon A1 35mm film SLR with its 70-210 zoom to get me closer to the birds. But film is expensive, and difficult to file. Digital is now my preferred method. My 3 daughters all have Canon A40 or A60 digital cameras and they seem pretty durable, so I've kept an eye on other Canon digital cameras. I started to get itchy fingers and wondered whether a bigger optical zoom on a digital would help. Most were very pricy, and I didn't ...
...Well the Canon S1s gradually came down in price over the last 18 months and last month it briefly dropped below £200 and I bought one. I've only taken a couple of hundred pictures and a few videos so far, but I'm impressed. It's quiet and rapid to switch on and has an extremely fast x10 optical zoom with image stabiliser. It only has an electronic display in the viewfinder, so most of the time I use the rear LCD to view and frame photos. It's maximum ...

SimonM 07.07.2005 · Read full review
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The Canon Poweshot S1 IS

Advantages: Powerful Zoom, Electronic Viewfinder (EVF), standard batteries
Disadvantages: 3meag pixels, Electronic Viefinder!!

...camera. This was the Canon A70. I went for this as it had all the manual controls that I required, was small and it was relatively cheap. After playing with it for some time and appreciating the flexibility of digital I was very impressed with what you could do once you have taken the actual picture and also with Canon. After a while I found the zoom of the A70 to be limiting as I attend a number of sporting events and found the 3x optical zoom ...
...I then saw the Canon Powershot S1 IS in a magazine; it had 10x optical zoom, image stabilisation and 30fps video mode. It was all too tempting and soon got the better of my wallet!! I found it on the web for a reasonable price so it had to be done. When I received it I liked the look of it and although feeling awkward initially it began to fall into place soon enough. The zoom is fantastic as it can get you right into the action or the scene and ...

psims 04.08.2004 · Read full review
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7000 shots later, I'm still happy with it

Advantages: 10x Zoom, Image Stabiliser, Easy to use
Disadvantages: Only 3.2 Megapixels, No hot shoe

OK, this is my second Canon digital camera. I've now been shooting with it for 18 months, have taken over 7000 shots, and all in all the results have always been excellent. The 10x optical zoom has come in very handy. Autofocus at 10x zoom in low light is not always accurate, but I suspect this will be a similar problem in other cameras. In daylight the autofocus rarely gets it wrong. At shorter zoom levels the autofocus is excellent. Zoom is also ...
...of the range to the other in about a second. However, the selector can be moved a smaller amount, allowing for slower more accurate zooming. It's also worth noting that the lens is f2.8 - f3.5, hence you have a quite awesome lens range without sacrificing the aperture - I've looked at buying an SLR when I bought this camera, but found I'd need to spend thousands on lenses to get the same range with the same aperture range. The vivid mode in the ...

StuartMcBane 17.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review for those not totally up on technical blurb

Advantages: Great quality, 10x zoom (real zoom), image stabilising lens, will give you great photos
Disadvantages: 3.2 mpixles but this is easily outweighed by the other features

I bought this camera about a year and a half ago to take to Australia for a 5 week trip. I agonised about which camera to buy, did I want a small one, one with a big screen, one with as many megapixels as possible? In the end I plumped for quality over quantity (so to speak), that's a great quality lens and features over megapixels. The Powershot is 'only' 3.2 megapixels, but this would be adequate for most people, allowing you to print good A4 ...
...is the image stabilising lens. This is a clever bit of Canon's lens technology that you would normally find in the very expensive lenses used by professionals. It means that when zooming in on subjects, the sort of hand and body movements that would normally make your pictures all blurred are eliminated. I'm very shaky-handed and not one of my photos have come out blurred. Together with the 10x optical zoom it allows you to take photos simply not ...

MrsBee 09.07.2006 · Read full review
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I'll certainly stick with Canon in the future

Advantages: Exeptional picture quality, easy to use
Disadvantages: quite large camera, only 3.2 mega pixels

I have had this camera for just over a year now and I'm very happy with it. I bought it especialy for the coming of our first baby boy. As a woman and not realy one into technology, I found it very easy to use.I have taken thousands of photographs in a year, and loving it. It is a great camera and although slightly bigger than one would expect nowdays, the quality of the pictures is amazing.You can even take a black and white pictures, which is what ...

michaeladent 30.11.2005 · Read full review
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