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S3 it is.

May 17th, 2007

I’ve ordered a Canon PowerShot S3 IS this afternoon. The dissappointing S5 IS successor made the decision easier: it drives down the predecessor’s price while offering little to justify its own higher price.

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Others' Thoughts

# moiety
Comment on May 17th, 2007 at 5:48 pm

Enjoy your new camera!

# chucker
Comment on May 17th, 2007 at 6:30 pm

Thanks, I think I will!

# Ravi
Comment on May 17th, 2007 at 10:49 pm

Hey! I’m looking at the same camera as well. Did you consider the Sony H7? Any reason you stuck with the Sony S3?

# chucker
Comment on May 17th, 2007 at 11:04 pm

The alternative had considered was the Panasonic DMC-FZ8, advantages of which include a larger (and higher-res) screen, RAW mode, better optical image stabilization and being slightly lighter and smaller. The S3, however, has much better image quality (thus mostly eliminating the need for kludgy RAW work), a flip/swivel display (smaller, but very, very convenient), normal AA batteries rather than proprietary ones as well as an interface and general feel more familiar to me.

Now that they are both on mostly the same price level, it was in the end easier to go with the choice I’m more familiar with. (I had already owned the A80 as well as, briefly, the S1 IS.)

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