kurttarvis

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Value Rating
 3 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Price Paid:  $275.00 from ebay

Summary:
The Canon PowerShot S3 IS has 6 megapixels and the 12x optical ulta zoom plus additional digital zoom. It's an alright camera for the not so serious photographer. Does good for scenery but not so much for portraits.

Strengths:
Strong body, good resolution, good color, great optical zoom, cool body design, awesome moving LCD screen

Weaknesses:
not great manual features, takes 4-AA batteries, poor low light image quality, poor viewfinder.

Similar Products Used:
Sony H7, Sony F717

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Price Paid:  $300.00 from ebay

Summary:
i have had this camera for quite a while, it came with the converter a telephoto,wide angle, and few filter... i have to say i love this camera!!! hands down this is probably the best camera for $$ and features in its class! if you are looking for a camera with allot of features but don't want to buy an SLR or want to get into photography this is definitely a good start!

Strengths:
very good 12x zoom lens,image stabilization,nice features like color assent,swap,manual,nice color choices,good contrast...a very powerful flash, good battery life. swivel screen is very handy especially when taking very low to the ground shots. has manual focus, super macro (best macro i have seen) button layout is simple and easy to use. the converter and lens work fairly well, plus you can take infrared shots!

Weaknesses:
Anything over iso 200 is too noisy to use, no hot shoe, wish there was a bulb feature, longest exposure is 15 sec, the auto focus is not always spot on(thank god for manual focus)

Similar Products Used:
multiple kodak and sony and nikon cameras.

Customer Service:
never had to deal with customer care.

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Price Paid:  $399.00 from Office Depot

Summary:
I have had this camera for a very long time. It did not support raw format, but now there is a firmware update for experienced users that supports capturing to this raw format.

Strengths:
12X optical zoom
great quality lens
adapter and lenses available
long battery life on 4AA's
supports sandisk 4gb sandisk sd card that I have
many many shoot modes
great video quality capturing

Weaknesses:
due to high quality video recording, file size is huge, which is time consuming when transfering video and have to convert video to diff. format for smaller file size.

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
Hace poco adquirí esta cámara, por ahora ha demostrado ser excelente. Zoom rápido, silencioso y ejecutable en el modo de filmación. Excelente definición, rapidez y facilmente manejable.
En fin, una excelente cámara por donde se la mire.
Recomiendo tarjeta de alta velocidad y mas de 2 gb de capacidad, así como también un juego de baterias extra en el bolso.

Strengths:
Zoom, calidad de imagen, facilidad de manejo, rendimiento de bateria y encendido super rápido.

Weaknesses:
La tapa del teleobjetivo no es muy segura.

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
4.00 of 5,
6 votes

Price Paid:  $359.00 from CompUSA

Summary:
The best point and shoot camera and the best value. The autofocus is amazing even at 12x zoom and image quality is the best in its class.

Strengths:
Excellent image quality and performance, fast autofocus, mega zoom w/ image stabilizer, light and compact form factor, compelling design.

Weaknesses:
Small LCD and strap is a little too short.

Similar Products Used:
HP Photosmart 850xi