Canon PowerShot® S5 IS Digital Camera

Pros: Fast, hot shoe, 2.5 inch vari-angle LCD, 12X USM IS zoom, full manual controls.
Cons: No RAW/TIFF mode

Photography has been my obsession for more than thirty years, so I'm a very lucky guy - I get to test lots of nifty new digital cameras. The only problem is that I have to send the cameras back when my tests are finished. Usually that's not too ...

Pros: Build quality, resolution, picture quality, fast 12x zoom with optical stabilization, large LCD
Cons: Expensive, no RAW, uses 4 AA batteries

Mega-zoom cameras are fun. Before digital mega-zoom cameras were available, you would have to carry around a bunch of lenses and a camera body to be able to get to 10x magnification, but now you can get a digital camera with 10x optical zoom and over for ...

Pros: Easy to use, very good photos, solid construction, good software
Cons: Battery, lens cap will get lost

After numerous attempts to bring my parents into the digital world, I think I have finally succeeded. I failed a few years ago with a Sony digital camera that they could not quite figure out how to use and have succeeded only modestly with regards to ...

Pros: A great and affordable combination of the best features in smaller digital cameras!
Cons: Too bad Canon did not do this two years ago!

2nd Revision - July 20, 2005 CANON PowerShot S1 IS Apologies to readers everywhere - Due to ignorance, I did not discuss the "IS" part of the model number. Further research revealed that, with a 10x Telephoto setting, the slightest ...

Pros: Good zoom, and image stabilization works. Overall good image quality.
Cons: Battery life not great even when using Ni-MH. Pricey for resolution.

A ZOOM FOR ALL PEOPLE? The Canon S1 IS (IS standing for "image stabilization"), hits the market perhaps a little late in the game considering it's resolution of only 3 megapixels. Panasonic offers a 12X IS zoom camera at 4 megapixels, and for only a ...

Pros: AA batteries, IS, quality, speed, features
Cons: A little pricey, bulky, not quite an SLR

This camera has so many different things to talk about, I don’t know where to begin! I’m 21 years old, and in the seven years of my life so far that I have been a digital user, I have owned several cameras. My first was a $400 Sony Mavica FD-75 and it ...

Pros: Image quality! Ability to capture digital video, and easy upload of photos.
Cons: Autofocus settings are slow. Ships with 32MB CF card; need more memory to capture video.

"Read the book!" has never been my favorite thing to hear, but in the case of the Canon PowerShot S1 IS, it's certainly worth consideration if you want to enjoy your camera and get shots worth keeping. I am a novice to intermediate digital camera user ...

Pros: 12x zoom, good image quality, stabilization, good battery life, focuses quickly.
Cons: Lens cap falls off. SD card shares battery compartment. Set button in non-intuitive location.

I bought this as a replacement for another camera with which I was unhappy with the image quality. I was also looking at the S3 IS in addition to this one. The S3 was only $50 more than the one I was returning, at $300, while the S5 was $400. I went ...

Pros: Image Stabilized 10x zoom Incredible movie mode Can use standard AA batteries.
Cons: Shutter Lag takes getting used to. Low-light focusing could be better. Doesn't fit in pocket

I bought the Canon S1 IS right when the model was first released as a digital camera for my wife and as a take along camera when I didn't want to bring my Digital SLR (Canon 10D). I've now been using the camera for almost a year and can offer this ...

Pros: image quality, dedicated movie button, hot shoe, great zoom, image stabilization
Cons: Uses 4 AA batteries, SD slot is in battery compartment, lens cap comes off easily

Overview The Canon S5 IS digital camera is an 8-megapixel 12X “super zoom” camera with an SLR-like body, and is the successor to the S3 IS, sharing the same lens and many similar functions. The S5 IS uses Canon’s new DIGIC III ...

Pros: image stabilization, zoom, manual settings, image quality, swivel lcd
Cons: buttons all over the place, lens cap, autofocus in low light, beep

I started traveling a lot for work and I decided that I would use these opportunities to do some hard core tourism on the side. I already have the Canon A60, but I was looking for more megapixels and a bigger zoom. I decided to go with the S1 IS since I ...

Pros: Great looking pictures, even at 8x10. Low price for all the features. Canon quality.
Cons: Viewfinder autofocus freeze. Lens cap won't stay on. Small LCD.

I have owned 4 digital cameras, from the point and shoot to the Canon D60 DSLR. I am looking for that perfect camera - light weight and near pocket size, long zoom, preferably stabilized, automatic as well as a full range of manual features, focuses in ...

Pros: 10X optical zoom, image stabilizer, swivel LCD
Cons: no macro

I've had the PowerShot S1-IS for about 6 weeks, and found that my photos have improved greatly since my initial purchase. I suspect that some difficulties reported may be due less to the camera than the user. Lens cap loss: Just attach it to the neck ...

Pros: Ease of use. Image quality. Outstanding underwater housing. Uses AA batteries.
Cons: Shutter lag, especially in IS mode. 1.5 inch screen. Plastic lens extension unit.

I bought this camera when my wife and I were on our way to Alaska (summer '05) and I didn't want to carry all the film that my Canon EOS film camera would have demanded. I was concerned that the "low" resolution would be a problem when I wanted to ...

Pros: - Great quality photos - Ultra-zoom - Excellent video mode - Intervalometer
Cons: Only 3MP Some purple fringing No flash hot shoe No AF illuminator

I purchased this camera about a week ago. I previously owned the Minolta DiMAGE Z1, but was unhappy with that camera's flaws (such as very bad chromatic aberration, and audio/video out of sync). On paper, the Z1 was great, but my experience was less ...