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Canon S45 + 64MB CF $387.88 @ Amazon

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Canon S45 4MP is $387.88 shipped free no tax at Amazon. This is one of the lowest price from reputable online store.
Camera here.
Get a free 64MB Viking CF with purchase or $29.99 discount towards higher capacity CF. For codes, go to techbargains
 
probably be better idea to get the s50 with a free printer for same price, but for people without the 20% off, this is hot
 
Both are good deals. The S50 deal is better especially if you can get rid of the printer for a good price and bring your cost for the camera down.

Brad
 
good deal...


i got it from Dell back in May for $384, no tax no shipping...only came with a 32MB card though. It didnt last long...got a 256MB CF card for it for $36 on Aug 10th.
 
The S45 shares the case and all electronics with the S45 except for the megapixel sensor. The S50 is essentially the same camera with a bump in paper specifications for the marketing folks and for the general public who shops by reading boxes at Best Buy or listening to Best Buy employees. Apparently the new sensor has the side effect of giving the S50 a tiny bit more battery life (like an additional ten minutes.) In real world applications, I doubt that there would be much difference at all, but to the trained eye perhaps.

All of this is based on studying I did last night, I haven't used either unit. But these guys are quite thorough:

DPReview
 
Lets be honest I think we all expect more from Canon than to simply bolt a larger sensor into an existing design, but that's exactly what they did with the G5 and the S50. And what's the reasoning behind this? Market pressure. Both the G3 and S45 are excellent cameras which get the absolute maximum out of their four megapixel sensors, produce very nice images without too many undesirable artifacts. Indeed in my opinion nobody actually needs a five megapixel compact camera, it's just a case of 'bigger must be better' (I'm sure we can thank some retailers for this).
While it's true that the S50 carries all of the excellent features, control and image processing from the S45 it can't be said that the lens is as good a match for the sensor as it was with the four megapixel unit. This is clearly visible in the strong chromatic aberrations which can occur (this is the same thing we experienced with the G5). This is the reason I can't give this camera 'Highly Recommended'.
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from the conclusions of the dpreview review.
 
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