Canon PowerShot S30 Digital Camera

Pros: Compact size, low price, image quality, excellent metering.
Cons: Battery life, slow startup cycle times, under-powered flash

The digital camera wars have been heating up since before the holidays as the major players fight it out for a dwindling pool of scarce recession dollars. Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Olympus, and Sony have all introduced exciting new models that offer consumers...

Pros: 3 MegaPixels, Small Size, Solid Construction, Excellent Photo Taking, Price
Cons: Urmmmmm... I'll think about it... The flash.

Maybe I should call this the PowerShot S40 Jr. How about the PowerShot S40 Lite? Either way, the PowerShot S30 has all the great features of its more powerful sibling the S40... as well as its weaknesses. Along with their other digital camera...

Pros: Quality photos, great feature set, great P&S results, solid feel.
Cons: Mediocre flash, no flash shoe, no battery meter, proprietary batteries.

I love this camera for travel and for snapshots. It's small enough to carry around, with excellent picture quality, nothing protruding to break off. I've been very happy so far (3 months).

This is a very solid feeling camera, not as light as...

Pros: Excellent_picture_quality, Functionally diverse, Compact metal case, Retracting_lens with_built-in lens-cover, light_weight and_very_small, photo-stitch, Lithium_Ion battery, Uncompressed_format
Cons: Lens cover is plastic, Software is confusing

The S30's shots are astoundingly clear and vibrant with color. It is such a wonderful camera that I couldn't stop taking pictures the week that I got it. I never knew how to use aperture and shutter priority but now that I have a digital camera that...

Pros: workmanship, picture quality, ease of use, solid feel
Cons: battery life, shutter speed, 3MP is in the low end in 2004

I originally wrote a review on this camera in June of 2002 when I was new to Epinions. 37 reviews later, I reread it now and saw why it only got a rating of "somewhat helpful" so I thought I would improve it why my mind is on the subject of digital ...

Pros: Great camera. Compact.Compatible with high standard flash cards. Great Shooting modes and zoom.
Cons: costly battery runs out fast. Especially in cold weather.

This is my first digital camera. And I take pride in it. It has sleek body like the point and shoot camera. And versatile in options. Great body and color. Using this for the last eight months. Firstly, I bought this camera for its looks and size. ...

Pros: Size, Quality, Looks, Price, Battery.
Cons: Flash, No battery indicator, No Case.

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Intro... Nice looks.

In the store the first thing that I saw was how...

Pros: Rugged, compact case. Great optics, manual controls
Cons: Unflattering strobe pictures, color casts with indoor lighting due to poor auto white balance function

Review of Canon Powershot S30

Pros:
Compact, rugged brushed aluminum case
Elegant design
Good Optics
Manual Control Options
Built-in microphone for MPEG movies and voice comments
Display mode with very detailed...

Pros: Size, Image Quality, Manual and Automatic Controls
Cons: Battery Life, Slow start up, Red-eye reduction not perfect, Customer Service

Besides a few minor complaints (the biggest of which deals with customer service), I am a big fan of this camera. The camera is small enough to fit in a pocket and is easy to take great pictures with.

For beginners, or casual picture...

Pros: Feature-packed for price. Great resolution. Compact form. Looks Good.
Cons: Quirky flash effect.

This is one of the first products I have struggled to find a criticism for. We bought our camera almost a year ago, from Best Buy, and at the time I think we paid $450 for it. In the meantime, I have taken hundreds of pictures and never had a...

Pros: TONS of features, incredible picture quality, good battery life
Cons: TONS of features...can be a bit daunting at times

I purchased this camera about 6 months ago from some obscure online retailer for about $350. I had looked in retail stores to play around with it and see what it had to offer and was very pleased, so I bought it! I looked at other brands in the same...

Pros: Excellent Optics, Easy to use, very powerful, compact.
Cons: Fragile Sliding mechanism, Manual focus is a pain.

Sporting a powerful 1/1.8-inch 3.2 megapixel CCD, combined with 3x optical (10x digital) zoom lens, 7.1-21.3mm (equivalent to a 35-105mm lens on a 35mm camera) with auto and manual focus. It maybe not be the top end most camera on the market; yet with con ...

Pros: picture clarity, ease of use, versatility, decent movie mode
Cons: packaged memory too small (16mb), short battery life, inconvenient charging process

about myself
hardly a digital photography expert, but a definite enthusiast who did plenty of research before making this final purchase. i'm huge on saving money and buying products that will, indeed, last and last. my last digital camera...

Pros: Easy to select pre-selected pictures modes, large view finder
Cons: Slightly bulky, lens cover slide, battery life, odd controls

I bought this camera as a take everywhere camera to replace a Fuji 401 which delivered soft hazy pictures. Unfortunately the Canon I find is bulky and trying to slide it in a pants pocket usually results in the camera lens covering opening on the way in....

Pros: Compact, sturdy, versatile, good interface.
Cons: Not quite small enough for your pocket, average battery life

This is the first digital camera I have owned. I've had a Nikon SLR for many years. When I purchased a digital camera, I was looking for one with many of the features that I was used to with my SLR, while still able to function in an "auto" mode to...