Canon PowerShot S500 / IXUS 500 Digital Camera

Pros: Ultra-Compact Size, 5 megapixels, 3x Optical Zoom, Print/Share button, very fast operation
Cons: Weak flash and Redeye problems, no scene modes

One of the high-tech revolution’s most interesting areas has been the ultra compact digicam camera marketing niche. Canon’s digital Elph models have consistently dominated that market sector with their classy synthesis of style and substance and ...

Pros: Compact, sturdy, good LCD visibility in sunlight, good photo quality, features, resolution
Cons: No modes other than Normal, Landscape and Macro; poor menus, stiff controls, LCD visibility

The C anon PowerShot S500 is a 5-Megapixel digital advanced compact camera with metal body that features some manual control. I find some of its features and performance aspects useful and powerful whereas others ...

Pros: Very good resolution, battery life, and accurate colors with good macro mode.
Cons: Small for users with big hands, A little pricey for resolution, no manual focus.

Update 06/04/2005: Just wanted to comment that my wife and I went to Hawaii and took over 200 pictures with this camera and ended up printing out about 30 of them. The pictures looked great, including the 2 8x10s that we made. Looked just as ...

Pros: Small, quick focusing. Ideal for little children. Great for candid moments.
Cons: Watch out for bad LCD. Gets warm rather quickly.

So after exhaustive research and countless hours of trials at Circuit City, Best-buy and Penn Camera we decided the best way to capture those candid moments of our 3 yr old daughter was with the PowerShot S500. We decided to buy the camera from Best-buy ...

Pros: Very compact, always with, sexy design, easy to use, great pictures, superb macro!
Cons: Poor in dark environment, battery dies suddenly, expensive battery and charger.

AUTHOR BACKGROUND: I waited years for this camera to hit the market. My requirements: as compact as the analog ELPH / IXUS APS models, 5 Megapixels (that is what your average analog SLR gets), and below $500. OK, they got me to buy one ... The next ...

Pros: Picture quality, manual controls, movie mode quality ( VGA ),perfect size, solidly built
Cons: movie mode framerate, installation issues with canon utilities, some red-eye here and there,pricey

Having two small children it became apparent that I needed to indoctrinate myself to the digital world. I guess I was really tired of getting down to Eckerd buying those primitive disposable cameras. So I decided to help Mother Earth by going ...

Pros: Excellent images, battery life (LCD off), small and compact, easy to use.
Cons: Not as feature rich as competition, battery life (LCD on)

I recently had a Canon Powershot S410 prior to owning an S500, but the lens wasn't acting right after a while, so I returned it and went ahead and bought an S500 for only a little more, due to discounts and a sale going on. Canon makes great cameras, no ...

Pros: Small, solid construction, lots-O-features, takes great pictures
Cons: Cost, hard to find features, no battery indicator, no optical zoom while recording video

The S500 is a nice, small, camera. It fits easily in my pants or shirt pocket. It's a solid and rugged design which is good because I can be hard on cameras. We recently purchase a Canon S500 to replace our dated HP 315. The HP315 still takes great ...

Pros: Small, compact, fast, produces excellent pictures
Cons: Red-eye reduction feature is distracting to subject and doesn't work very well

After much deliberation between several point and shoot cameras about a year ago, my husband and I finally decided on the S500. We were upgrading from a 3.2 mp to a 5 for taking snapshots of our son, and this was the best choice we could have made! ...

Pros: Excellent Normal Pictures and Lens Quality. Good Macros. Durable, Stylish Metal Housing. Great Bundled Software.
Cons: Small 1.5" LCD Display. Fussy Lens Zoom. Cheap Plastic Battery and CF Card Compartment Covers.

About three months ago, I purchased this camera, which was New Old Stock. The S500 was introduced about two years ago. The newer, smaller Canon models have larger LCD Displays, but make compromises in Lens Quality and Ease of Use (buttons are too ...

Pros: Excellent picture quality in bright conditions, light weight.
Cons: Fragile - there are somethings you MUST avoid doing with this camera.

The Camera I have a Canon S400 and a friend of mine purchased the new S500. Now aside from the new print button and the gold rim around the lens, I didn't notice any difference in picture quality. The quality of a camera does not just depend on the ...

Pros: NO PROS!
Cons: BLURRY PICTURES TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE BEWARE OF WARRANTY WORSE THAN A DISPOSABLE CAMERA BAD QUALITY

I purchased the canon powershot s500 digital elph last March. I kept getting blurry pictures so I called Canon technical support. They went through the whole procedure to make sure my camera was all set up. Well I followed their directions but everything ...

Pros: Compact, easy to use, and loaded with options.
Cons: Needs a cloth case to prevent any scratches while in my pocket.

I was reluctant to spend $650.00 (Canadian) on a digital camera. But after using my brother-in-law's S400 I had to have a digital camera and the S500 model is the one I purchased. All the features that are available on this camera came as a pleasant ...

Pros: Pictures are always good.
Cons: No case, small flash card (only 32MB).

We have had good luck with this camera -- this unit more than meets our needs. Have had it for about 4 months. Glad we upgraded. After I started using this camera, I realized quickly that my small 20GB HD wouldn't last long - Thus, I upgraded to a ...

Pros: Simple and easy to use
Cons: Battery life is not so good.

Fine look, small size with 5 mega pixel makes it attractive. Digital photography performance is ultimate. Excellent images with superb design make it wonderful. It saves our memories very brightly. Moreover it is very easy to use.