*Very small *quite fast autofocus compared to my EOS cameras *metal body *accurate flash with combination with white balance *menus are so simple that they seem to designed to a child *did I mention small size? *Full manual control - basic thing for me, I hate everything AUTO

*As for me very usefull on/off lens cover, but I don't think it will last long *Too slow AF in lo light situations (assist light helps a bit, but sometimes night flash shots simplly come out unsharp) *too shiny (but black G2 or G3 are too big) *too light! (I can make sharp photos with my EOS 30 with 50 lens at 1/10 sek. and with this digital 1/30 is a limit) *too small optical viewfinder, although it is sharp *too small batteries

About a month ago I decided that I need a small camera to take it everywhere with me. I found Leica M6 for quite resonable price but I already awn a great Fuji 645 rangefinder which simplly gives better quality pictures (medium format). Leica's owners claim to own best viewfinders - look through Fujis, it's much better. A friend adviced me to try out a digital camera. After long research I bought Canon S40. Wow! At first glance I was amazed by the size of the camera - it's in size of my Nokia mobile phone! I took some photos. Connection to computer is so simple that you can't make a mistake. A printed photo in size of 15*21 cm is naturally not the quality of a good 36mm, but for all those purposses where I want to use it, it's enough. I needed a small camera - this is very small, if it only had about 10MP it would replace my Fuji I concidered digital IXUS but 2MP is not enough.

Customer Service

None so far, and hope not to have to use it

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Grabbed G2 - it's nice but not much better than this camera - the same ccd

Image quality --- Good quality 8 X 11 (A4) and with a bit of Photoshop processing you can even get passable A3''s. RAW image facility so same workflow as with pro D30/1D Microdrive compatable so plenty of pix per card good quality Canon Lens

Front cover switch likely to go first Viewfinder only shows about 80% of pic (although explained in the manual) Such nice looking wow factor means you have to keep hold of it or it will disappear could do with slightly faster lens -- note a real gripe however

Although mainly a D30/D60 user (Canon digital SLR) I always love to have a P&S pocket digicam with me for weekends, etc where I can''t always take the D30''s. I had to replace my old OLY 2000Z and was a tossup between OLY 4040, G2 and S40. Discarded OLY 4040 in spite of faster Lens as CF rather than Smart Media means microdrive compatable and more pics. Decided on S40 as it is much more of an unobtrusive camera than the G2 and it really is a genuine P&S pocket camera -- at the cost of a few features which I don''t mind. And it looks "really kewl" -- move over Fuji!! Very simple to use, adequate controls -- I only bothered with P, Av, or TV -- all the other stuff I never use. Almost impossible to take a bad picture.

Customer Service

Not needed (so far)

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Oly 2000Z

- Well build (all metal) - Additionnal personnal settings (sounds) - Color rendition - Images quality - Lithium Ion battery

- Bad hand handling - Bad flash coverage - Smaller body means also smaller buttons

The S40 is a clone of is big brother, the G2 It is a smaller (slim) version for those who are looking for a smaller camera with 4.0 megapixels

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PowerShot A20 PowerShot G1 PowerShot S30 PowerShot G2 Coolpix 950 Coolpix 990 Coolpix 995

Price Image Quality Endless shooting modes

NONE AT ALL TO THIS POINT

This is a great little Camera. When I saw it from the ast Canon Rep''s visit back in Nov I had to have it. Its nice and small fits in my pants pocket. Has all the normal Canon shooting modes ( IE P, TV, AV, M )

Customer Service

not needed yet and doubt I will

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Nikon 990 (look for that bear on E-Bay) Canon Digi Elph Some Olympus Digi Point & Shoot(if it were good I would remember)