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New Canon Powershot S100 for $368.00 SHipped

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This deal rocks , I may order as soon as tomorrow.. If staples doesnt allow stacking coupons, why do they let you do it?
 
Woohoo ordered today. Does anyone know if this camera comes with a serial cable? When I receive it I will be at my parents house and their computer even though has a built in usb io chip does not have the physical ports.


Thanks for the great deal
 
Let me add just one more great digicam review site:

DP Review - Canon S100

I just bought a G1 through the Photoalley/MSN deal and I absolutely LOVE the camera, but you guys are tempting me to get this one also. Uggg, my wife would kill me....
 
The G1 is certainly tempting, I dabated between getting the s100 first or a serious camera. I'm happy with the decision I made.
I figure I can wait one more generation on the prosumer models.


I've heard the G1 does really good night shots.
Have you tried any?


 
Sick, nah.

The s100 is perfect for taking everywhere, but it certainly lacks serious control. It is also fixed at an ISO of about 80.
It does take surprisingly good night shots if you crank up the exposure to +2 and set it to superfine mode.
I guess I have a bit of an obsession with night photos.

Also need a g1 because the s100 looks ridiculous on a tripod.


 
Specs show fixed ISO of 100..
The S10 does have 100-400 capability.. but IF I want to have
ALL sorts of control, I can always use my Nikon CP950..
IT has mega manual controls. (apeture,shutter,exp. metering)
cj
 
chibimike-

I'm not sure what you mean by "really good night shots", but I've taken all kinds of pictures and I'll try to answer your question.

The lens on the G1 is pretty fast... aperture of 2.0-2.5 and it has a decent built-in flash. Good up to about 10 feet realistically, but you can increase the flash range by changing the ISO setting from 50 up to 400. I just don't like the graininess at ISO 400.

There isn't a Bulb setting and the longest exposure time you can take is 8 sec, which for me is good enough for anything I'm going to do.

Overall the G1 is a great camera, everything I wanted and waited for in a digicam (this is my first). Hot shoe (I take a lot of flash photography). 3 megapixels for printing out 8x10's. And a swivel screen that goes in every direction (unlike the Nikons that only twist vertically). One thing that it has that I didn't realize would be so great is microdrive compatibility. I got a 1 gig microdrive and went to Vegas this weekend and took all my pictures and 30 second movies all on that one drive (over 300 in total at the best jpeg quality)... with plenty of room to spare. Plus I got a 1 gig microdrive for $400 or $0.40/meg, compared to the best deals found here for compact flash of slightly under $1.00/meg. 1 gig is probably overkill (for now), but it was only about $100 more than the 512 meg drive, and I know I can use it on vacations without having to worry about running out of room or carrying around extra cards.

Yes there will always be something better around the corner, but I've learned that's what E*ay is for!

As for the S100, I just love the size. I take my G1 a lot more places than I took my film cameras (which I don't really see myself using anymore). I know that I'd take the S100 everywhere. But again, I need to get that one past my wife somehow...
 
I was mainly talking about the iso 50 8 second no flash night shooting.
Some of the sample pictures I've seen look amazing, very little grain, and almost no noise. They get that bizarre, spooky feel.

The G1 is a beautiful camera.
I'm really tempted to start looking for a good price on the G1.

 
I recently bought the canon s-20. It looks just like the s-10 but it is 3.34 megapixels. The s-100 comes with the charger and battery. The s-10 does not. The charger and battery is $84 at buy.com. Local stores sell it for $99. The image quality of the canon s-100 is good but the s-10 is better. The size of the s-100 is definitely an advantage. The s-100 will not accomodate the ibm microdrive but the s-10 and the s-20 will. It all depends what you are going to use the camera for. Here is a link of s-100 pictures.
s-100 photo examples I found this site when I bought my s-20. I almost got the s-100 but at the time the s-20 was on sale for only $100 more. I might have bought the s-100 for this price. It is a good deal when you consider it comes with the charger too. Just make sure it has a USA warranty.
 
Well this is really going to screw up my bollocsBay sales!

I've used several digicams. I buy them as cheap as I can, use them, access their results and then sell them on crapBay if I don't like them that much or don't think they're worth the 3-600 bucks they cost. I've got through several in this manner.

For the longest time I thought the Kodak DC240i was great. Then a Casio QV-2000UX took top honors. Then along came the S100. At first I was going to sell it right off as the specs were pretty lowly (very few manual features), but then I actually started using it and now I really dig it. The main thing about it of course is the small size. As several reviewers have already wrote, it's better to have a lowly digicam with you most of the time instead of a great, full-featured digicam that is so too bulky to carry all the time (and so you miss a great shot). The S100 is like a James Bond gadget. Most times people don't even realize you're taking a shot as it's so small.

One bad feature - the macro focusing is pretty crap. Yesterday I was messing about taking pictures of leaves and butterflys (really!) close up. About 1 in 10 of the things I took were actually in focus - even though what I wanted to focus on was right in the middle of the lcd viewfinder.

This is great first/backup digicam for anyone. Very easy to use. Mostly good results. Just download a copy of paint shop pro or something to improve some of the fuzziness.

And don't forget, $390 will buy you a pretty awesome 35mm film and several years worth of film and processing costs. The results will be far superior to a S100 or any other digicam at that price.

:disgust::frown:
 


<< And don't forget, $390 will buy you a pretty awesome 35mm film and several years worth of film and processing costs. The results will be far superior to a S100 or any other digicam at that price. >>



You're right that $390 will buy you a lot of film and processing. Somewhere around 1,600 pictures at $6 per 24 exposure roll for film and processing. That's a lot of pictures.

Ok, but how many of you take a perfect picture on every shot? Ok, maybe if you're taking landscapes, but what about action or sports photos? What about pictures of people/kids? Why do people always blink when you take a picture? What about out of focus or over/under exposed shots? Honestly, out of each roll of film, how many do you really want to keep?

Little story: I have a 2 year old boy and one night he was playing with his Mr. Potato Head and he decided to put on the glasses. When I got up off the floor from laughing so hard, I grabbed my 1 week old G1 and chased him around the house snapping pictures of him. I ended up taking 30 shots before he took the glasses off and only 4 turned out at all. I'm a pround dad so here are a couple of them:

Glasses 1 Glasses 2

These pictures were taken with a G1, but were resized so you can easily get this kind of quality from a 2 megapixel camera.

Anyway, after this I just got to thinking that I wouldn't have taken that many pictures of him with a film camera due to the cost of processing, and I don't know if I would have gotten any good pictures. I've had the camera for less than a month and I've taken over 1000 pictures with it already. To me, the shots that I've taken in the month that I've had the camera (that I doubt I would have gotten without it) make the camera well worth it.

And as far as quality, I can print out my best photos on my Epson ink jet printer on high quality photo paper and can't tell the difference. I've read that between 2 and 3 megapixels you can print out 8x10s and not tell the difference (I don't have any 8x10 prints to compare it to).

Just my opinion, but I would not want to discourage anyone from buying a digital camera.
 
i've had my s100 for a week, and taken like 300 pictures of just random stuff. I guess with a film camera, you think hmm.... i'm gonna be wasting film. Plus you have to get them developed and pick them up and stuff. BTW i've owned one film camera that my mom gave me when i was 12, and i hated waiting for the pictures. I also used her $300 elph 1 a lot when she got it, and well that was cool, but film is like $6 a roll plus developing and there is the wasting film thing and the picking up the pictures. Plus you cant put them up immediately on the web , to update a website and even if you got real film photos you'd need a scanner, which i dont have, and those are slow, and i'm lazy. The elph 1 didnt exactly take the best pictures in the world either, i figure with the s100 elph and a trip to kinkos i could make some pretty good prints anyways.
 

I've been kicking myself that I missed the passport/photoalley deal.

Now I don't feel so bad!

Anyone want to guess the odds that this will ship in the advertised 24-48 hours and make it home for the holidays (w. ground shipping)????????

Also, has anyone used the wx-proof housing for snorkeling??????

Regarding the 35mm film comment above:

I've gone both routes. I have an OK 35mm rig and countless point and shoot cameras. Right now I have several rubermaid tubs full of pictures, negatives and slides (I travel a lot). I keep on saying one of these days I'll get around to scanning them, but never have the time. For the past two years I've enjoyed using a kodak One megapixel camera, which by todays standards is a piece of garbage. In the last two years I've taken over 2500 digital photos. Two things: I love the instant feedback of a digital. It helps when composing shots (you see instantly how bad something looks), it lets you know if you missed the shot, and best of all, each and every one of those 2500 digital pictures is on my laptop. The 1-Megapixel pictures look great on my laptops .8 megapixel screen. Using the laptop, I can bore anyone anytime with pictures of our last cruise, the balloon fest whatever. Meanwhile those tubs of photos still sit in the closet.....
 
I ordered last night.
Status: Sent to Warehouse (well, I can't wait to try it)

You guys failed to mention one thing, digital camera looks cool 😉

BTW, gobabygo, your boy is cute 🙂
 


<< And don't forget, $390 will buy you a pretty awesome 35mm film and several years worth of film and processing costs. The results will be far superior to a S100 or any other digicam at that price. >>



yeah but how often would you take pictures if you thought of the price? For 24 exposures and developing is about $8, or roughly 33 cents a picture. I'd be sitting there worrying about every picture, about how much it's going to cost. I'd be like, &quot;hmmm, is this picture worth 33 cents?&quot; With a digital cam, no worry, just snap away, if you don't like it oh well, it didn't cost you anything.

Also, the size of the S100 will make it more valuable in the future than other cams. Sure they'll get to 4, 5, maybe even 10 megapixel (what is that, 10,000x10,000) but the S100 will always be valuable simply because of it's super small size.

If you want to get a cam that you'll keep for a long, long time I'd get a S100

James
S10 owner (sometimes i wish it was a S100 . . .)
 
before i get this, i have one question: I already have a kodak dc280 camera (which rocks, great pic quality), and i have a compactflash 64meg card with it. My question is : will that same card work with this elph 100 camera? I really love my kodak, but its to big to take everywhere.. i want this so i can take it everywhere.

this is my card i got

what is the difference between type 1 and type 2? why doesnt this cam use or support type 2?
 
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