canon s40 $450@dell
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Great camera. I got mine a few weeks ago for $533 shipped, including a 128 meg high speed CF card and an extra battery. Gotta love price mistakes! If a person is truly serious about photography, this is a much better buy than one of the Digital Elph's.
i've had this camera since last christmas. excellent camera, especially for that price. i got mine for about $520 including a $100 gift certificate, using BVG and the ms wallet promotion. ahhh, those were the days...
just be sure to keep the iso settings at 200 or below. anything more than that and you get an awful lot of noise, which is not unusual for digital cameras. i accidently had mine set manually to iso 400, and ended up taking a lot of grainy pictures. stupid me, i thought something was wrong with the camera.
I read in some reviews that unless you had good light, the picture would be dark. Is this true and what about the new 45? Is there an improvement in the newest model?
I'm assuming you mean the DSC-S85. If there is a non-S model, I guess I'm wrong.
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Reasonably informative S40 review.
Reasonably informative DSC-S85 review.
FWIW, I have a newly acquired Canon Powershot S230 Digital Elph, and I'm quite pleased with it. It's perhaps not quite as "good" as a few other cameras in its price range (although it is better than the vast majority of the competition), but it's incredibly, remarkably compact, which means I'll be carrying this camera with me most of the time. A better, but slightly larger, camera would wind up getting left at home most of the time. I figure better to have a very good camera with me, than to have a slightly better camera 40 miles away in my desk drawer. Hence, the S230.
Of course, no matter which camera one purchases today, in 6 months there are going to be new models that perform better and cost less. (Sort of like computers.) Accepting this fact can have a wonderfully soothing effect on one's nerves.
I'm assuming you mean the DSC-S85. If there is a non-S model, I guess I'm wrong.
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Reasonably informative S40 review.
Reasonably informative DSC-S85 review.
FWIW, I have a newly acquired Canon Powershot S230 Digital Elph, and I'm quite pleased with it. It's perhaps not quite as "good" as a few other cameras in its price range (although it is better than the vast majority of the competition), but it's incredibly, remarkably compact, which means I'll be carrying this camera with me most of the time. A better, but slightly larger, camera would wind up getting left at home most of the time. I figure better to have a very good camera with me, than to have a slightly better camera 40 miles away in my desk drawer. Hence, the S230.
Of course, no matter which camera one purchases today, in 6 months there are going to be new models that perform better and cost less. (Sort of like computers.) Accepting this fact can have a wonderfully soothing effect on one's nerves.
I'm assuming you mean the DSC-S85. If there is a non-S model, I guess I'm wrong.
Compare Cameras
Reasonably informative S40 review.
Reasonably informative DSC-S85 review.
FWIW, I have a newly acquired Canon Powershot S230 Digital Elph, and I'm quite pleased with it. It's perhaps not quite as "good" as a few other cameras in its price range (although it is better than the vast majority of the competition), but it's incredibly, remarkably compact, which means I'll be carrying this camera with me most of the time. A better, but slightly larger, camera would wind up getting left at home most of the time. I figure better to have a very good camera with me, than to have a slightly better camera 40 miles away in my desk drawer. Hence, the S230.
Of course, no matter which camera one purchases today, in 6 months there are going to be new models that perform better and cost less. (Sort of like computers.) Accepting this fact can have a wonderfully soothing effect on one's nerves.
BTW, I'd like to put in a good work for Circuit City, while we're discussing digital cameras.
They had the S230 for $400. (Okay, $399.9x, but I'm going to round it up to $400, because that's the kind of dude I am.)
I found some Internet retailer whose webpage listed a price of $352.
Although Circuit City wouldn't do the "110%" thing on a price from a non-local store, they were willing to price match it, and sell me the camera for $352. Plus tax, yeah. But sales tax was less than shipping would've been from the other guy. (As an aside, I've had no problems getting price matches from them on 3 recent purchases -- a Canon S200, a Canon S230, and a Palm M500. On each occasion, the manager looked at the print-out of the webpage with the price I wanted them to match, told the salesman to match it, and that was that. Nor was there any difficulty with my 1 recent return -- the price matched Canon S200, which I returned for the S230.)
Now, $352 may not be the best price available, since I understand Dell is running or recently ran some sale on the S230. On the other hand, $352 isn't a bad price, the camera was in stock and I walked out with it 2 minutes after paying my money. I didn't have to mess with mail-in rebates or try to find discount codes, and -- best of all -- Circuit City has extended their "No Questions Asked, and No Re-stocking Fee" return period for the holiday season, so that it now runs until 31 January 2003.
It's this extended return period that convinced me, since I wouldn't be in the least surprised were some store, somewhere, in the next 11 weeks, to have the S230 on sale for some great price. In which case, I can just bring in proof of this new, lower price, and have Circuit City match it.
Anyway, just thought I'd mention this. I was quick to criticize Circuit City in the past (like, back when they charged a re-stocking fee on returns), so it's only fair that I praise them now that they seem to have improved a little.
Of course, I may just be dealing with a particularly generous or clueless store manager. There's always that, isn't there?
They had the S230 for $400. (Okay, $399.9x, but I'm going to round it up to $400, because that's the kind of dude I am.)
I found some Internet retailer whose webpage listed a price of $352.
Although Circuit City wouldn't do the "110%" thing on a price from a non-local store, they were willing to price match it, and sell me the camera for $352. Plus tax, yeah. But sales tax was less than shipping would've been from the other guy. (As an aside, I've had no problems getting price matches from them on 3 recent purchases -- a Canon S200, a Canon S230, and a Palm M500. On each occasion, the manager looked at the print-out of the webpage with the price I wanted them to match, told the salesman to match it, and that was that. Nor was there any difficulty with my 1 recent return -- the price matched Canon S200, which I returned for the S230.)
Now, $352 may not be the best price available, since I understand Dell is running or recently ran some sale on the S230. On the other hand, $352 isn't a bad price, the camera was in stock and I walked out with it 2 minutes after paying my money. I didn't have to mess with mail-in rebates or try to find discount codes, and -- best of all -- Circuit City has extended their "No Questions Asked, and No Re-stocking Fee" return period for the holiday season, so that it now runs until 31 January 2003.
It's this extended return period that convinced me, since I wouldn't be in the least surprised were some store, somewhere, in the next 11 weeks, to have the S230 on sale for some great price. In which case, I can just bring in proof of this new, lower price, and have Circuit City match it.
Anyway, just thought I'd mention this. I was quick to criticize Circuit City in the past (like, back when they charged a re-stocking fee on returns), so it's only fair that I praise them now that they seem to have improved a little.
Of course, I may just be dealing with a particularly generous or clueless store manager. There's always that, isn't there?
Thanks for the links Mike. Right now, i'm leaning towards the Canon S40 mainly because some of my friends already have the Canon, and have no problems with it. But I would like to get my hands on the Sony, just to fiddle with it, press the buttons, etc.
i got this camera, and it kicks ass.
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