Amazon Customer.'s Review of Canon PowerShot S30
27th Mar 2002
Overall Rating
- Value for money
- Ease of Use
- Image Quality
- Features
Great ergonomics, wonderful image quality and lots of control.
Bad Points
Problems encountered:
1. noise in very long exposure shots (night photos) 2. my camera has a dead pixel in the LCD screen 3. the visual viewfinder only gives you 85% of the shot 4. the viewfinder is not electronic 5. rocker menu selector fiddly to use
General Comments
After lusting after a digital Ixus at a party I upgraded from the Fuji Finepix 2800 I bought recently to the Canon Powershot S30 digital camera, which at the moment is well-priced compared with the S40 (the 4 mpixel model) and the other 4 MP models. Reviews suggest image quality of the S40 is a fair bit better than the comparable compacts around like the Olympus C-40Z and the Pentax Optio 430 models.
I am delighted with the camera. The images are clear and sharp and colours are deep and beautifully natural. The number of modes give you almost full control over things like aperture priority, time priority, and ISO from 50 to 800, which gives you fantastic flexibility, as well as Canon's photostitch mode which lets you make panoramas easily with the supplied software. All this is readily accessible with all buttons easy to use (except the rocker selector which can be fiddly). It is comfortable and can fit into a coat pocket reasonably comfortably, unlike the bulky and unergonomic Fuji, while being strong (metal body). Despite a couple of weak points this is a great camera that I've basically fallen in love with already.
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Megapixel.net Digital Camera News and Reviews
Canon's PowerShot S30 is one of 2 almost identical cameras introduced in the latter part of 2001. The S30 is equipped with a 3.2 megapixel CCD, and the S40 with a 4.0 megapixel CCD.
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