Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Mar 24 '02
Pros: Compact size, low price, image quality, excellent metering.
Cons: Battery life, under-powered flash, no provision for add-on lenses or external flash
Summary: The popularity of the Canon Powershot G2 has had tongues wagging for many months. If only Canon would offer the advanced features and pro level performance of the G2 in a package that was like the super compact S110 and S300 (oh, and at a bargain price ... read more
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Jun 20 '04
Pros: Quality, reliability
Cons: Expensive
Summary: The powershot S40 is still a fantastic camera, I am very impressed. I brought this camera some time ago when it first came out, and unlike many electronic products it has not dated... it is still an excellent camera. The picture quality is superb, and ... read more
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Mar 12 '04
Pros: Can take movies with sound; bright LCD
Cons: Bulky and heavy
Summary: It doesn't hurt to trust brand name products these days. My friends own either a Canon or Sony digital camera, and are generally happy, if not overtly pleased, with them. So when it came time to trade in my "ancient" 3MP camera, I looked into buying a ... read more
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Jan 11 '04
Pros: Feature rich, easy to operate, very good picture quality, excellent zoom
Cons: Battery life a bit short, flash often ineffective, old-fashioned viewfinder is inaccurate
Summary: I have been extremely happy with my Canon PowerShot S40. When I purchased the camera in 2002, I was deciding between that and the PowerShot G2, which was also one of the top rated cameras at the time. In the end, I decided on the S40 because I felt ... read more
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Jul 28 '03
Pros: Relatively small, lens cover, low lag time between photos
Cons: Short battery life, toggle button hard to use and unreliable
Summary: I bought this camera after reading many reviews of comparably prices 4 Megapixel cameras back in Jul ... read more
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Jun 01 '03
Pros: Picture Quality
Continuous Shooting
Customizability
Pretty Good Video with Good Sound
Cons: A Little Heavy
Price
Summary: A very powerful camera with lots of features. I don't own the camera, it's my friend's mom's :P But, we've used it long enough to know the pros and cons of it.
We used it for taking pics of us on the trampoline pulling big spins and inverts ... read more
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Feb 17 '03
Pros: Sleek design, great features, compact
Cons: a little heavy, not necessarily user-friendly, bad software
Summary: The Canon Powershot has just about everything you can expect when paying about $500 for a digital camera in its range. I got the camera about two months ago, and I must admit I am having fun with it. I've always been a picture oriented person, and I have ... read more
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Jan 09 '03
Pros: Small. Great pictures. Proud owner
Cons: Optional Case is junk. Lens cover sometimes pops out of alignment.
Summary: This is a great camera, after I bought it two more of my friends bought one. Ive taken this everywhere, its attached to me. The only thing I dont like is the lens cover when you slide it back over the lens sometimes it will go off alignment, Its scary ... read more
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Jan 01 '03
Pros: Very small for its performance, and durability. Very accurate and sharp pictures.
Cons: Some controls may be tricky for some people to use. Battery indicator is poor.
Summary: This camera is a very much like a professional digital camera in its performance. The pictures are very clean, and sharp. The lens for its size performs extremely close to the larger format lenses. In the automatic or program mode, it very much like the ... read more
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Nov 25 '02
Pros: very nice image, attractive, good ergonomics,
Cons: battery life when using flash, supplied media card stores 7 images at max image quality
Summary: It always comes down to benifits vs. cost. Do the benefits justify the price tag? Yes. The image quality this 4 megapixel camera delivers is wonderful. I went into this buy very skeptical. The only digital photographs I had seen prior were taken with a ... read more
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Nov 20 '02
Pros: Bright screen, light weight, intuitive to use
Cons: none
Summary: I have been using my Canon Powershot S 40 for about six weeks. Its operation is easy and intuitive. The software that comes with the camera is simple to use. This camera is everything that I hoped it would be.
People have been raving about ... read more
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Aug 25 '02
Pros: Small size, great resolution, great color, very portable. Both manual and auto modes.
Cons: Optical view-finder sot perfectly aligned with actual photo. Proprietary batteries.
Summary: Finally a high-quality camera you can take anywhere! The Canon S40 is amazingly small for all the features crammed into it. This is not a toy. It's a computer sized down to true pocket size.
The multitude of features will not ... read more
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Jun 25 '02
Pros: Amazing images, easy to use, compact size, mini-movie capability.
Cons: Lens cover durability, LCD scratch resistance.
Summary: REVISED 7/03: Now fully compatible with Mac OS X, including Apple iPhoto and Image Capture. Canon has also provided a Mac version of the RAW Image Management software. This model has largely been replaced by the essentially similar S45, with better ... read more
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Jun 20 '02
Pros: Overall styling of camera, quality of images, convenience
Cons: Battery life, lens door flimsy, multi-control, Auto setting
Summary: I must say that I'm still in awe of digital technology. Maybe is an age thing, but to see the amount of photo detail that can be crammed into a tiny chip is astonishing. So perhaps I'm reviewing digital technology and not just the S40. But I must say it ... read more
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Jun 08 '02
Pros: Very good quality of the images, Many features. Very rigid.
Cons: To small battery, weak flash,long time delay. Manual focus problem in Macro.
Summary: I was using for long time the Nikon Cameras like N 301, N801, and N90X with apropiate Nikon lenses. As I was looking for a top end digital camera, I had choice between Canon S40, Nikon 5 000 and some Pentax Camera with 4 mln pixels.
I choose ... read more
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Jun 07 '02
Pros: Compact size, Excellent Picture Quality, Great Features
Cons: Very little wrong with this little gem!
Summary: I got this camera for my wife who prefers to carry it in her purse - so a compact camera is a must. There is very little lost in the compact size, however. It has all the features of much larger cameras, has numerous shooting modes which makes getting ... read more
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