Quoth Alan Brand:
>On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:14:44 -0400, Anen <amagee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Quoth Alan Brand:
>>
>>>I took advantage of a sale today and got my birthday present a few
>>>weeks early ... a bright ****ny Canon S3 IS ... at my advanced age you
>>>can't depend on being around for the next bidet.
>>
>>That's my camera!!! I've been lusting over them on ebay for months!!!
>
>I'm wary of buying a camera on eBay - I've heard horror stories about
>the fake US camera "specialists" on there. I went to my friendly,
>local camera shop and had a chat about prices ... according to the
>flyer in the newspaper, Sears have the camera for $449 this week, and
>took this and the print-outs of the buy-it-now Canadian eBay listings
>ranging from $375 ("Like New Condition") to $465 including ****pping
>with me ... and got the camera + 512MB SD card + batteries + a big box
>of photo paper for $449 - and we're both happy. Plus I have someone
>useful to take the camera to if I have any problems.
You have the advantage of living in (or near) a large city. I don't
know of any source of digital cameras here other than Futureshop. Or
maybe Black's.
>>Well, OK, I've actually been lusting over the S2 IS because I'm scared
>>to look at the S3 IS because I'll want it even more and there's no way
>>I can afford it whereas there is a slim possibility I can scrape up
>>the money for the S2 IS in a few months especially if the price keeps
>>coming down.
>
>I had a base requirement of 5MP and 10x optical zoom (and a
>viewfinder, regular batteries and storage) as a guideline, and spent a
>fair amount of time on researching the whole thing.
I know at least two people who recently bought cameras with lots of
Xes in the optical zoom department only to discover that they needed a
tripod if they wanted to zoom much beyond 4X. Which kind of defeated
their purpose for getting a powerful zoom -- nature photography while
wandering through the woods with their dog. The Canon has image
stabilization.
>The S2 is a nice
>camera, but showed me another base requirement - I much prefer dark
>gun-metal to ****ny silver!
I prefer the dark metal too. Feels more like a "real" camera.
>I also like the bigger screen, the ability
>to take widescreen piccies, and I *really* like the dedicated ISO
>button too - which leads me to why the Canon ... apart from producing
>nice pictures, it has a plethora of buttons which means I don't have
>to futz around with an on-screen menu designed by someone whose brain
>works in Japanese.
There's got to be a nice balance between number of buttons and
usefulness of menus. Too many buttons have you pressing the wrong one
all the time.
Does it let you make your own set of default settings? One thing that
annoys me in my current camera is the flash. It defaults to "auto". I
turn it off, but every time the camera is turned on, it's back to auto
again.
>>Anne, camera-wanting girl
AlanB, camera-wielding girl
I'm still wielding Michael's old Nikon 950, which, except for the
battery door problem, is solid and reliable. But it *is* old and
there's a noticeable lag between the time you push the button and the
time it starts to take the photo. Since my current interest is
photographing dogs and since dogs move very fast, I end up with a lot
of shots of empty space where a dog used to be.
Anne
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