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Canon S2 IS 12x Zoom Image Stablized cam - price dropping . ..

Reseller Rating 5.47 and dropping from a Lifetime rating of 6.82

Read the reviews, only 2 good reviews out of first 7 currently.

The S2 IS may be dropping in price, since the S3 IS is out, but I think I would buy somewhere else.

mdcrab
 
There are a couple other ratings systems that bear looking at in addition to resellerrating.

Butterfly at Pricegrabber

Butterfly at Bizrate

I believe that resellerratings has merit but IMO it needs to be balanced out with a look at a couple other ratings systems.
If I based my shopping preferences on just resellerratings, I might not ever have shopped at Amazon.
Amazon at resellerratings

If you want someone other than Butterfly, Beach Camera is a good place to buy and it's also around 285 with free shipping. It's about the same price at Butterfly with their 9.95 shipping.
 
esquared, thanks for pointing out Amazon's ratings, never realized they were so low.
I agree with Beach over Butterfly.
 
S3 IS is 6mp whereas the S2 IS is 5mp. I only wish they'd gone up to 7mp on it......but as it is, it's not necessary. I'm sure it's a great camera. 🙂
 
It has been perhaps a year since I last ordered from Butterfly Photo, but they have always done well by me. I have bought two cameras (Nikon 8700 (Aug 2004) and Olympus C07070 (July 2005)). In both instances, I rec'd the cameras promptly.

Only caution I would give is the same I would for any camera purchase. Call and verify availability and price. Yes, they did ask me if I needed any memory or batteries but after I declined, no hassles. They completed the order and shipped promptly.

I would have no problem ordering from them again.

BTW, I just checked price. Not meaning to thread crap, but at $276, this is merely warm. The S2 IS has been around this price intermittently since the S3 came out. I keep waiting for these to drop below $250 to become interesting. Just my opinion, though.
 
Checked out the Canon S3 IS and the Sony DSC H5/B at Best Buy this morning. I currently have a Canon S45 am thinking of upgrading. I know Canon makes good cameras, but have not heard too much about Sony. My son has a Sony Digital camera and it seems to provide better color rendition in photos than my Canon. Has anyone had experience with the Sony DSC H series camera's. One drawback is the Sony proprietary memory stick?

mdcrab
 
Originally posted by: mdcrab
Checked out the Canon S3 IS and the Sony DSC H5/B at Best Buy this morning. I currently have a Canon S45 am thinking of upgrading. I know Canon makes good cameras, but have not heard too much about Sony. My son has a Sony Digital camera and it seems to provide better color rendition in photos than my Canon. Has anyone had experience with the Sony DSC H series camera's. One drawback is the Sony proprietary memory stick?

mdcrab
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I think it is pretty much a toss up between the S3-IS and the DSC-H5. I bought a Canon, and I use the Sony at work. They both take great pictures. I like the Sony because it uses AA batteries, and I like the Canon because it uses CF cards. Sorry if that wasn't much help/.


Here's a link: Link
 
Wow, I had no idea that the S3 IS was nearing $350 now (that's approaching the price I paid for my S1 back in 2004). With 4GB SD cards approaching the $50 mark as well, I am very tempted to upgrade. 😀 (I'd love to have ISO 800...)

I actually sold my S1 earlier this summer so I'm currently between cameras 😛
 
I think it is pretty much a toss up between the S3-IS and the DSC-H5. I bought a Canon, and I use the Sony at work. They both take great pictures. I like the Sony because it uses AA batteries, and I like the Canon because it uses CF cards. Sorry if that wasn't much help/
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The Canon S2, S3 use AA batteries also. They have much better battery life also-4 AA vs. 2AA in the Sony. I have used both the Canon S3 and the Sony H5 and the edge goes to Canon, but they are close on image quality. The Canon is way better in the video department.:camera:
 
Originally posted by: mdcrab
A nice side by side comparison can be found here
Digital Camera Reviews

It looks like from most of the reviews the Canon has a slight edge, but will probably keep the Sony.

mdcrab
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Either camera is a good solid performer and will take good images. Saying that, I would tend toward the Canon primarily because of the SD versus Memory $tick media. You can pick up 2GB for around $20 AR nowadays...try to find Memory $tick at that price. Those are very real differences in the total cost of ownership when you factor in say 4GB of memory.

Bottomline, I just don't like Sony business practices.
 
Originally posted by: chiragp
Whats the difference between S2 IS and S3 IS ? 😕
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Looks like the S3 has ISO800 for better low light exposures where the S2 only goes to ISO400. My wife has been wanting a better digital for concert photos, but I did not want to spend $1,000 for a bulky SLR. The S3 looks like a good fit.
 
Originally posted by: rickon66
I think it is pretty much a toss up between the S3-IS and the DSC-H5. I bought a Canon, and I use the Sony at work. They both take great pictures. I like the Sony because it uses AA batteries, and I like the Canon because it uses CF cards. Sorry if that wasn't much help/
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The Canon S2, S3 use AA batteries also. They have much better battery life also-4 AA vs. 2AA in the Sony. I have used both the Canon S3 and the Sony H5 and the edge goes to Canon, but they are close on image quality. The Canon is way better in the video department.:camera:
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Duh, what was I thinking? I was thinking about my Rebel when I was talking about the Canon batteries.
 
Originally posted by: mdcrab
the Amazon deal on the S3 IS at Amazon with free S&H for $356.00 looks very tempting.

mdcrab
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down to 349.99 free s/h now. :Q

I was looking to pick this up at $399 but this price it is NICE. :Q
 
Originally posted by: HomeAppraiser
Originally posted by: chiragp
Whats the difference between S2 IS and S3 IS ? 😕
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Looks like the S3 has ISO800 for better low light exposures where the S2 only goes to ISO400. My wife has been wanting a better digital for concert photos, but I did not want to spend $1,000 for a bulky SLR. The S3 looks like a good fit.
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If you are planning on using the high ISO settings, make sure you try the camera out first at ISO 800 and examine the results. I've found that using high ISO on point&shoot digital cameras often results in photos that are waaaay too noisy to be useful.

I have an S2 IS and I try to avoid ISO 400 at all costs. However ISO 1600 on my Nikon D50 is not that bad.
 
If looking into the cannon you may also want to look into a Panasonic FZ series as well. I had the one the op is mentioning and IMO the Pana FZ5 I got is much better camera with the Low light light for focus and it took much better more detailed pics of the same things when I was testing them side by side in the same light and same settings.
Overall better camera. Only thing I liked about the canon was it had better movie/video taking other then that the pana got more pics in focus the first time hitting the button and had more settings that worked better.

IMO of course but I did own them bothat the same time to test which worked best for me. Also with the Pana you get the sunlight shroud and the Lecia lens 😉

Sample Pic 1 of the Pana fz5
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Just to give an idea that there is more then Sony or Canon 😉
 
not trying to threadcrap, but for those interested in the megazoom cameras, here is another vote for the panazonic fc series - i have a fz7 and LOVE it....i looked at the S2/S3 when researching, and ended up going with the panasonic for a couple of reasons, and couldn't be happier.

that said, the S2 was about the same price then (3 months ago) as it is now, so prices SHOULD be getting better as the S3 gets to be more popular...
 
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