reviewer 2008 Contributor
rin
Ontario, CA
Good camera with great zoom and image stabilization
4 star rating

loving my digital camera, computer literate
Pros

    Lots of storage using SD/MMC cards, The zoom is powerful!, Wonderful pictures, Logical buttons and menus

Cons
    goes through batteries quickly

FEB
16
2008

Canon - PowerShot S3 IS Digital Camera — 

I bought this camera for almost a year. It's pretty good. I've compared it with a few other cameras (panasonic 32x zoom and sony 25x zoom) and the zoom on Canon seems to be the best although it takes awhile for the zoom to focus. It requires a steady hand, but image stabilization is a plus. The Panasonic zoom turns blurry after around 10-20x and no matter how long you hold, the image won't become clear. Sony is clear up to around 12x or so

I've owned an old Canon SD300 from years back, however I seldom use it because the images are usually blurry when I take photos and the lighting is bad. S3 made most of my photos clear, but it takes a few seconds/minutes to focus at times depending how much zoom is used. And even night photos don't come out too bad. I highly recommend it for those who are looking for a camera with a large zoom size and clear photos (image stabilization). However night photos are a bit grainy.

I think maybe a Nikon would be my next purchase because it's hard to take motion photos with S3. The photos come out blurry.

Last edited on Feb 16, 2008



I_thumb_up Canon - PowerShot S3 IS Digital Camera is recommended by rin

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