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Digital Photography Blog Reviews Canon PowerShot S1 IS

Mark Goldstein | Digital Compact Cameras | July 4, 2004 | 5 Comments

Canon PowerShot S1Digital Photography Blog have just reviewed the Canon Powershot S1 IS digital camera, which offers 10x image stablised zoom, 3 megapixels and high-quality 640 x 480 video at 30 frames/second with sound.

“I found the image quality of the many shots I took on the Canon Powershot S1 IS to be very good using a variety of settings. Images were generally sharply focused and well exposed in a variety of lighting condidtions.

I did notice a small amount of barrel distortion at the widest angle zoom settings and at the other end of the zoom there was some chromatic aberration (purple fringing) which is often a problem for cameras with large zooms like this. Colors were well represented and noise levels were reasonable for a camera in its class - although things get a little noisy at 200 ISO or over.”

Website: Digital Photography Blog - Canon PowerShot S1 IS Review



 

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#1 blackcat

I just bought a Powershot A75 and now want to get a card reader and charger/rechargeable batteries. Obviously Canon recommends using only their products, but has anyone found there to be problems if you don’t??? Thanks.

3:30 am - Tuesday, August 3, 2004

#2 Mark Goldstein

I use a cheap CF card reader and generic batteries from 7dayshop.com with both my Canon EOS 10D and G3, without any problems whatsoever.

10:58 am - Wednesday, August 4, 2004

#3 blackcat

Great! Thanks for the info, Mark.

11:02 am - Wednesday, August 4, 2004

#4 Jose

PowerShot S1 IS will not turn on at all and just the day before I took pictures and downloaded onto pc the put camera away and when I took it out to use it did not turn on at all even though I put new batteies in.

Please help if you can.

8:39 am - Thursday, October 7, 2004

#5 Mark Goldstein

Sounds like you to need to send it back to where you bought it or contact Canon...

1:41 pm - Thursday, October 7, 2004

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