Customer Reviews
Great Quality
I got this camera as Christmas gift this year. I am completely satisfied. For the price, this camera is the ultimate package. Although it's such a good camera, there are a few things that I don't like. First off, Canon's lens is completely unique to Canon. The lens cap is shabby at best. It only slips over the lens, which scares me because it leaves the lens vulnerable to scratching. The other thing that I did not like about the camera is that it does not have a specific sports setting in the dial. On the other hand, this camera can become completely manual, including a manual focus. I feel that it's a fair trade-off. I read in another review that this camera eats batteries. The remedy for this is to turn the power saving feature on, and to buy some rechargable batteries. Turn the camera off inbetween pictures, and your batteries should last you alot longer.
The best you can have!!!
There are so many things to tell for PowerShot S2 IS, and fortunately all are good! This is the best digital camera I have ever used and Hallelujah I bought it!!! It has lots of preferences, many useful speacial features. I'm not a professional photographer, but I have examined some Kodak and Sony models before but I can say that this Canon is much more better than them all! First of all the photos are very clear and sharp, especially if you use a tripod you cannot believe the result! And super-macro mode is perfect, it is very impotant for me, think for a moment from 0 to 10 cm, wonderful!!! Also the video quality is perfect, even indoor recordings are very good... and you can zoom while recording, a very important feature for a digital camera. The most important part is that energy consumption: I could use the camera for two days shutting without recharging the batteries.
Briefly, why are you still here and reading the reviews? Buy it, now! If you will not happy with it, please send me an e mail: anatolian_cat@yahoo.com
Excellent camera even better given the price
I bought this camera for the zoom (old 3x zoom 4MP Olympus) and have not been disapointed. This camera takes incredible pictures, see the samples on this page. Most of my pictures at 12x zoom have been perfect due to the IS function. The menus are much easier to use than the Olympus.
I do have 1 complaint as I tend to hit the mode button sometimes when using the camera and have on a couple occasions accidentally lowered the resolution of the pictures until I noticed it.
The videos are good enough to play on a big screen TV although the wind noise sometimes makes it through the filter. Also with my hand, the video image still moves around alot at 12x zoom. Another nice feature of the video is you can zoom while you shoot and I haven't noticed any noise from the zoom motor in the video.The stereo mics also work amazingly well considering they are so close together. The videos do chew up memory quickly but as has been stated, a 1 G card will hold 8 minutes and that is alot of video. I have never had the buffer run out even on normal (not high speed) cards although I haven't tried an 8 minute video either.
