Canon PowerShot S60

EXCELLENT DIGITAL CAMERA

Pros: Excellent pictures/easy to use
Cons: None so far

Recommended: Yes
Has Owned Product: 2 Month(s)

Comments:
--Update: Oct. 15th 2004--Hi. I bought this camera on Aug.12th 2004. I took about 200+ pictures so far. Outside, inside. I also shot a short movie with it. On the whole, I am quite impressed with it especially with the pictures quality & the lens quality (wideangle). It's as good as my regular Nikon FM 35mm which I own since at least 20 years. I'm still in the learning mode but it's quite easy to take pictures especially in the 'Auto' mode. Battery life is pretty good, will last many days. It recharges in about 90mins when completely drained. I also bought the Canon compact photo printer CP-220. You can print photos directly from your camera to printer. Print quality impressive like professional job almost. Bit more expensive per pictures. If you have 200 photos, bring them to a store. But if you print 12 pictures here & there it's perfect. At the max resolution & compression, a picture can be around 2-3 MB. A lower resolution (1600x1200) & normal or fine compression will bring size down a bit (500/700 Kb) & it will be easier to send via email, especially if your friend has only dial-up & limited download capacity. Picture quality/pixels will be quite good at 1600x1200 unless you zoom in at 200 +. So far the camera is excellent. Nothing broke, all working 100. If I had waited a few days, I would have learned that Canon was making a model S70 with 7 million pixels. But I don't think I would have bought it. Much more expensive & I am not printing big size so...I'm using a Lexar 512 MB CF High Speed 12x (CompactFlash media card) & this is excellent for this camera. One other thing: DO NOT leave all your pictures on the CF card. What I do is copy them to my hard disk then to a CD-R. Then I erase them on the CF card. You can copy them back later on the card if you need to print some pictures again. The reviewer who said he erased 900+ pictures after pressing wrong icon 'format CF card' was pretty well....you know what I mean because I just checked the menu choice under 'set up' then down to ''Format... (CF) 488MB, press 'set' then it asks 'format memory card? & choice by default is on 'Cancel'. You got to move with arrow right to 'OK' & press again on 'set' to format card. So it's not only a 'one button/icon' press to do it...... If you format it, it's because YOU WANT TO DO IT ! To resume, you will never erase a picture with a 'one button' function. You just have to be careful and awake when using this camera....& save your pictures regularly on a CD-R. Take care, J-Y, Montral.