Canon PowerShot S3 IS

This model the Canon PowerShot S3 IS improves upon its predecessor with a new CCD that is designed to suppress noise and offers ISO sensitivities up to 800 (a fair amount of noise in landscape photos taken just after sunset and in close-ups taken during daylight in macro mode). While shooting, you can use the zoom feature with no added noise to the movie; it's very quiet. Image stabilization is still active when shooting a movie. One interesting feature, called movie snap, allows you to trigger the shutter to capture stills while shooting a movie.

It's Fast and responsive, with a comfortable design. The 2-inch LCD screen flips outward and rotates.Very good colour accuracy and saturation, as Canon usually does, including My Color Modes as described in previous models. Autofocus occurs quickly for the most part, although a sometimes focus hadn't locked before capture. A cheap dSLR will provide better performance, and a moderately priced one will deliver better photo quality. But the Canon PowerShot S3 IS's combination of features, performance and relatively compact design certainly gives superzoom fans a compelling alternative.

The Canon PowerShot S3 IS's aesthetic seems to be a cross between those of a classic Volkswagen Beetle and a Busy Box. Granted, it's the same body as its predecessor's, but the silver bits stand out more against the current version's iridescent, dark grey plastic than they did against the previous model's silver colouring. As with the S2, there's certainly enough here to keep you busy for a long time, though, and loving every minute of it.

For the Canon PowerShot S3 IS, Canon upped the size of the flip-and-twist LCD to two inches from 1.8 . The company also added a16:9 aspect mode: not only does it simply crop and letterbox the standard 4:3 image. Highly useful is the new 320x240 60fps movie-capture mode, which produces slick little movies, as does the VGA, 30fps mode.

The Canon PowerShot S3 IS has some great features: a 12x optical zoom lens to go with its 6.1-megapixel, 1/2.5-inch CCD and Digic II image processor, also, image stabilization. Just like on the S2, the S3's lens cap seems to come off pretty easily.

Digital zoom can be used while shooting the movie and sound recorded. The maximum length of the movie is either 60 minutes or 1gb of footage. Digital Photography Interface rates S3 IS 7.2 out of 10 in overall ratings and concludes that all-in-all, the canon-powershot-s3-is is a great ultra-zoom with very good image quality and some unique features. Well, the Canon S-series ultra-zoom cameras are usually known as hybrid cameras because of their superior movie mode.

John Andersen reviews most of canons digital cameras. Take a look at Canon PowerShot S3 IS

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