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Rating:  - Best and smallest 2.0 megapixel Canon Powershot yet!
This ultra-compact camera has excellent image quality in a tiny package. Perfect for that trip you always wanted to take.
I use to have a Fuji Finepix 2600z and this one is much smaller (granted, Canon has a smaller zoom).
The LCD panel is very sharp and bright and you can see it during a very sunny day, a major plus.What I liked: -Ultra portable
-Very stylish stainless steel design
-Excellent color reproduction
-Great for closeups
-Outstanding low-light shooting capabilities, for all those nightime pictures! (please use a tripod)
-Fast battery charger (about 2 1/2 hours for a full charge)
-Excellent value for your money What could be better: -Image sharpness was slightly soft-looking (is that a Canon thing?)
-Average battery life (about 3 64MB cards)
-Small flash does not have a lot of power The best thing about this camera is not only that it delivers great point and shoot pictures (for us amateurs!)but that it is extremely portable and provides a decent amount of experimentation and control via its straightforward LCD menu system.
I highly recommend it.
Rating:  - Excellent compact camera.... but has major problem.
Quick Update : The picture quality of this camera is horrible. Too many blurred and/or out of focus pictures. Had to sell off my S200 because it can't take sharp/crisp/clear pictures even in daylight ! Many other users on dpreview forums have same problems & Canon hasn't released any firmware update to fix it. My suggestion now is to avoid S200/S230/A40 because of focus problems. My old review continues below : Canon has another winner in its new S200 model just like the S110 and S100. It has the following positives,
1. Excellent looks/build quality.
2. Great night shots, not found on any other compact 6 oz. camera, new long shutter feature in manual mode for upto 15 secs (tripod a must for this).
3. Very reliable and tons of features like charger works all over the world, PAL/NTSC video out, all cables included (unlike Sony).
4. Accepts cheaper Compact Flash cards which are easily available in sizes upto 256MB. Not expensive 64MB sticks here :)
5. Very much pocketable. Easily goes into any pocket.
6. 2.1 MP may looks low compared to other 3/4 MP cameras but this one offers more features without sticking you with any sticks ! Don't just use MPixels as your sole criteria when selecting camera. If you won't print them bigger than 8x10" then 2MP should be enough for now unless you have that extra cash :) Also Canon can't have a 3MP on the Elph's since they have to sell their S30/S40 also !
7. 2x zoom very faster to start and fold back. Works smoothly. You can turn the digital zoom off permanently.
8. LCD is superb, pictures look great on the 1.5" LCD. (a bigger 1.8" LCD on other need not neccessarily mean better quality, my last years Fuji had 1.8" and comes no where near this 1.5")
10. I haven't encountered any problems downloading pics till now. I don't see any reason to buy a CF card reader, the included cable works fine took just 3 mins for 100 big pictures
11. Comparing this with S330 is really very tough. S330 is heavy and feels rock solid, looks even better than S200 and has 3x zoom. S200 because of its light weight and smaller significantly smaller size is better to carry around. Play with both in your local store before deciding between the two.
11. Great user interface... think of these Elph's as Nokia's of digicams. Other cheaper camera's out there might not have same reliability, features, user interface and picture quality. Things that could be better,
1. Only 2x Zoom, Canon needs to get this up to 3x next year. (And 4x on S330's replacement).
2. Battery... you might have to buy a second one for extra 45 bucks depending on your needs... I guess this is the case with any ultra compact camera
3. The battery/CF doors feel flimsy.
4. Canon's ZoomBrowser EX software is very unstable. It has crashed atleast 5 times in one week on Windows XP. also it takes long time to "update its database" whenever any pciture is deleted or addedd to the directory. Canon needs to iron out the problems in this. You may be better off using some other SW for editing/managing your pics, use this one just for downloading pics.
5. Price is still high for a 2MP camera, although its become much more affordable than last year.
6. Movie mode is almost useless because of 5 sec limit on decent sized clip. Its just a marketing thing.
7. Included CF card is just 8MB ! Someone has to start including these necessary things like a decent 64MB card along with new cameras.
8. Camera gets pretty hot in a few mins of use and the buttons on S200 feel tough to use compared to S330. This is part of the deal in buying a such compact camera. Spend few extra bucks on this cool camera and you won't regret ! Getting a camera this compact has some compromises but well worth the ultra portability you get.
Rating: - high quality well featured digital camera
The main purchase decision when compared to other cameras of a similiar (+/- £100) price, was size and looks. The ixus is significantly samller than most similiar quality cameras.
It may be useful to have one of the swiveling LCD screens, but the balance is that this will fit in your pocket.
The features on the Ixus are very quick and easy to understand, it has easy control of white balance, and easy to learn menu sytems for setting up prefernces ect. the zoom control is right next to the shutter release which is very handy.
The software which comes with the ixus seems to do the job just fine, and really is pretty straightforward to use.
The 8mb card which comes with the ixus is enough to get started with and allows 25 - 30 medium quality pics.
Battery life is pretty short, but i guess this is the norm with digital cameras, the neat laittel charger does its job more than adequately.
I can see an upgrade to a bigger memory card and spare battery coming up in the near future.The quality of images is excellent, very sharp with brillinat colours, and theres plenty of creative settings to play with, its fairly easy to create professional quality results.
All in all a very satisfying purchase.
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