A review from an amateur photo-taker - NOT your professional photographer with all the technical jargon! :PI am so happy this camera is here! Long awaited and it was a heavy debate between this and the recently reduced-priced S95. Chose the S100 since it's just the upgraded version with some improvements and enhancements. I think the S95 is still a great option. From what I hear the professional DSLR camera users love to at least have this camera around when they don't have access to their SLRs! Now I also have an SLR - and it is just BIG and not portable - so this is a much better option for me to acquire the high quality pictures I want but with an easier and better ability to control certain aspects (with the two different wheels) without having to lug that big SLR around.
First thing - Thank you, Amazon, for the better pricing! At $429, it beats the other vendors selling it for $479+S/H. And after a delay in shipping due to delay in manufacturing, it arrived before Christmas! Not a gift, but I'll be excited to use it for family Christmas pictures and play around with it :)
Now here's something to note - it doesn't come with a memory card! I did not pay attention to these details when purchasing. It's been a year since I've gotten a camera so I can't remember if this is the norm...I sort of always remembered cameras coming with a minuscule-sized memory card...but it didn't. So alas, now I have to wait a couple of days of a new one. I could just take a memory card out of my DSLR or from my previous point-and-shoot camera, but it has to be reformatted to this camera. I don't know exactly what that entails, but I figured I'd just wait for the new one to go in the new camera, reformat it, and then all my cameras will still have a memory card. Don't be careless like me - order a memory card when you order the camera!
So on a side note: Just ordered an 8GB transcend SD class 10 memory card from Amazon...Recently did rapid and minimal research on the different "classes" of memory cards, and since I had read a few reviews talking about slightly slower than ideal performance of this camera, I thought it might just be better to maximize with a class 10 (higher processing/writing speeds.) I don't really know if that helps, but I figure it can't hurt. This is never something I had ever thought about with previous cameras. This camera accepts SD, SDHC, and SDXC.
Now if you've read other reviews - you know the battery-life is not ideal (so consider buying a separate battery pack for those big special events or vacation days). The manual says you can get ~200 shots on the battery life, and that a 4GB memory card can save about 1231 shots. So choose your memory card accordingly.
As a right-handed user, it's hard to get the wrist strap through the little hole. (There is another one on the upper left hand corner for left-handed people I assume) I had to use some floss with a floss threader so finally slide it through! Not a big deal and only a one-time thing once you get the strap through.
This little pop up flash is frustrating and a dumb feature in my opinion. It's right where your left hand may naturally hold the camera, so I feel like it's bad if it's constantly a little jarred by the unknowning person who is taking a picture for you.
LED screen is big and beautiful, crisp and clear! Love it.
Have been playing around with the different settings and it's great - much easier to control different settings with this camera than regular point and shoot. I intend to learn more about photography basics with this camera.
Also...manual comes on a disk instead of a thick printed booklet along with some Canon photo software.
Excited to have more fun with this camera! :)
Review by JChiCago
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