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Review summaries for Canon S3 from expert digital camera reviewers.
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It's not uncommon to see a brightly colored piece of clothing or a vibrant flower appear in digicam photos as just a blob of colo"
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Flash range is greater at wide angle focal lengths"
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great visual cues for resolution and detail."
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Zoom lenses often behave quite differently at wide angle and telephoto focal lengths"
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effective optical image stabilization"
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the S3's photos look good"
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fast, high-quality lens"
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the LCD is too small for a functional letterbox display."
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The LCD is certainly viewable in most light"
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Hidden deep inside the lens is something very helpful: Canon's
optical image stabilization system."
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You should be able to make large prints of the ISO 80, 100, and 200 shots without issue."
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The custom can get perfect color even under the most unusual lighting conditions."
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The PowerShot S3 has one of the best movie modes on the market"
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Low light focusing was very good thanks to the S3's AF-assist lamp."
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Focus speeds were very good"
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The camera took in plenty of light thanks to its manual shutter speed control, and noise levels are reasonable for a 6MP camera."
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the Shortcut button lets you put your favorite menu option close at hand."
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Outdoor visibility was decent, and low light viewing was very
good, as the screen brightens automatically in those situations."
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I also like the custom spot on the mode dial and the handy shortcut button on the back of the camera."
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You should be able to make large prints of the ISO 80, 100, and 200 shots without issue."
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noise was well-controlled, even at ISO 200."
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Noise levels were low through ISO 200, and even ISO 400 is usable for small and midsized prints."
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DIGIC II image files are optimized for bright colors, tack sharp resolution, balanced contrast, and lower noise."
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The S3 IS provides the best overall image quality in its class"
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colors are hue accurate"
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The S3 has the most impressive movie capability of any digital camera in its class (including a nifty camcorder style video start/stop button)."
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Movies look really good, as if they were shot with a camcorder and here's the clincher -- shooters can (because its whisper quiet USM motor isn't picked up on the audio track) use the S3's 12X zoom during video capture."
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The S3 features a relatively high eye-point EVF (electronic viewfinder)"
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Low light focusing is pretty good"
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The S3 IS provides all the exposure flexibility most photographers are likely to need, including: Auto, Program AE, Scene (Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Sports, Stitch Assist, and Special Scenes -- Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Indoor, Night Snapshot, Color Accent, and Color Swap), Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, and full Manual modes."
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The user interface is intuitive and uncomplicated with logical and easily accessed controls, especially the dedicated MOVIE and FUNC buttons."
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The S3's camcorder style (flip-out, rotating) Vari-Angle LCD screen tilts/swivels 180 degrees horizontally and 270 degrees vertically (the screen nests into the camera's rear deck when not in use and folds out, like opening a book, when deployed)."
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The colors produced by the Canon PowerShot S3 IS appear in the outer portion of each square and the inner square shows the ideal color corrected for luminance."
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with a new CCD that is designed to suppress noise and offers ISO sensitivities up to 800."
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With its 12x zoom lens, established image stabilization system, and hybrid recording structure, the S3 has the main ingredients for a good ultra zoom camera."
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with a new CCD that is designed to suppress noise and offers ISO sensitivities up to 800."
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I found the camera's optical image stabilization quite effective at countering minor shaking and delivering an image with fairly sharp details."
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the powerful 12X zoom was a joy to use"
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the most attractive of these are its optical image stabilization, 12X optical zoom, fast maximum shutter speed, and swiveling 2-inch LCD (which comes in handy for shooting at creative angles)."
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Swiveling LCD, many control buttons. 12X optical zoom, image stabilization."
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Though flooded with numerous buttons on the chassis (similar to the S2 IS), these keys are in fact reasonably comfortable even for larger digits."
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It was initially awkward having to look at such a "small" screen"
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the S3 IS allows capturing a full resolution the camera is recording a movie."
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The flash is manually opened,
simply by lifting it into its open position."
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In our tests, image stabilisation worked extremely well; whether shooting static targets in low lighting conditions, or panning for moving wildlife and sports action shots"
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Excellent optical image stabiliser"
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Viewfinder is a little small."
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Logical and intuitive menu and control system."
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The photos from the Canon S3 IS are ready for instant use, without requiring any editing afterwards."
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The lens produces superb results."
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The resolution is higher, the sensitivity has increased, the screen has grown and several snags and negative points have been fixed."
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The combination of the menu, which offers an impressive amount of languages,"
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You can shoot standard movies at a maximum resolution of 640 x 480."
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the Powershot S3 IS the most fully equipped super zoom digital camera I have tested"
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The lighting levels produced by the flash are good too."
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the camera offers fully manual exposure."
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When shooting with lenses 420mm (a smidge longer than the S3), not having Stabilization is hugely problematic"
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the Canon S3 produces files at ISO 80 and 100 that are reasonably clean, and with high resolution."
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Pop into IMovie for some editing, and quick and fun videos are the result."
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The good news of this is that depth of field at medium to wide
focal lengths is quite extreme."
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very fast aperture"
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Extreme focal length and wide aperture ."
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4 disposable batteries"
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the Canon S3 produces files at ISO 80 and 100 that are reasonably clean, and with high resolution."
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The swivel LCD screen was awesome"
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you can count on the UD Lens for bright, sharp images and radiant, true-to-life color."
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provides markedly faster startup, autofocus and playback, plus it assures that every image is more colorfully vibrant."
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You can simply press the shutter to capture a full 6.0 Megapixel still image at any time while recording a movie."
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The extra-long 12x Canon optical zoom brings you in close to
capture intimate details."
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The sleek PowerShot S3 IS digital camera offers you high resolution, an extra-long zoom, advanced yet easy-to-use movie functions plus great new shooting options."
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advanced yet easy-to-use movie functions"
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very good color accuracy and fidelity"
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has a more powerful zoom"
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Flash and daylight exposures were quite good, but I found more purple fringing with the S3's images than in the FZ7's."
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I was happy to see that the Canon S3 IS has hardly any shutter lag."
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this camera produces generally soft images and suffers from loss of details starting at ISO 200."
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truly superb movie mode"
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one of the best zoom lenses I've seen on a compact."
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it does seem to like blowing out highlights in high contrast situations."
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It is pin-sharp from edge to edge at all focal lengths, produces minimal wide-angle barrel distortion, and its fast maximum aperture ensures good shutter speeds at long focal lengths."
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super-powerful but amazingly compact lens"
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produces soft images and suffers from loss of details starting from ISO 200."
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user friendly picture editing and movie clip editing functions"
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the S3's photos look good but can't really shake the digital look, either onscreen or in print."
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decent movie capture"
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the new 320x240 60fps movie-capture mode produces slick little movies"
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effective optical image stabilization"
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high-quality lens"
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The LCD is certainly viewable in most light, but I prefer an eye-level viewfinder to the unsteady arm's-length approach."
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The image quality is superb, the zoom is huge and the features are robust enough to keep most budding photographers happy."
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the menu system is sub-divided in the usual Canon way, which is functional and intuitive."
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accurate color"
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The custom white balance option lets you use a white or gray card as reference so you can get perfect color even under the most unusual lighting conditions."
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the PowerShot S3's photo quality is very good."
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The PowerShot S3 has one of the best movie modes on the market,"
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amazing movie mode"
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fancy movie mode"
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excellent ultra zoom camera"
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Focus speeds were very good (though Panasonic's cameras are faster), shutter lag was not a problem, and the camera can take another picture in about a second."
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Hidden deep inside the lens is something very helpful: Canon's optical image stabilization system."
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the Shortcut button lets you put your favorite menu option close at hand."
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handy shortcut button"
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The LCD display gets bigger on each review of the PowerShot S-series, with the S3's screen weighing in at 2 inches."
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Unfortunately, Canon gives you alkalines in the box which will quickly end up the trash, so consider it your mission to buy a set or two of NiMH rechargeable batteries"
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great battery life numbers"
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the PowerShot S3 has the best battery life in its class."
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Very good print quality, great color"
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Overall color looked pretty good, with bright reds and blues that nonetheless didn't look too overdone."
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Very good low-light capability, sensitive enough to capture bright images under typical city street lighting and much darker conditions."
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The Canon S3 IS had excellent low-light shooting capabilities, with a maximum exposure time of 15 seconds."
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really excellent, well-integrated movie mode"
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impressive 12x zoom with image stabilization."
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Both the Canon PowerShot S3 IS's electronic viewfinder and LCD were quite accurate, showing almost exactly 100% of the final frame at both wide angle and at telephoto zoom settings."
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The LCD monitor lifts off of the rear panel to face forward, can swivel 270 degrees to face several viewing angles, and can be closed against the rear panel with the LCD facing inward to offer protection against accidental knocks or scratches."
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As usual, the real test of print size came at the higher ISO settings, but even there the S3 IS did very well."
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ISO 800 shots are usable at 5x7 inches, just fine at 4x6."
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Even ISO 800 shots may be acceptable to some users when printed at 8x10 inches, but should be acceptable to most users when printed at 5x7 inches."
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