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Summary: A fun camera
Review: A lot of fun playing around with the 330; I really like being able to connect it to my TV during a party and showing a slide show. Sounds can be associated with taking a picture or turning on the camera; you can download your own sound files. I shopped around a lot and all the camera's have some problem. The battery time is about 3/4 to 1 1/2 hours depending on using the LCD and the low battery warning is very short; the zoom is average for a 3X and the view hole is not overly accurate; also the macro feature is about average. But I could find more problems with the other cameras I tested. Overall, my family loves the camera and we use it a lot. Especially nice are the Sepia, Black/White, photo stitching, the LCD is about the best I've seen even looks good in bright and low light, memo feature is cool, the colors are very accurate and the pictures look great, it feels like a real camera not some piece of plastic. And best of all it fits in purse or bigger pants pocket. 8/5 I've played with the camera for about 2 months now; in 1028x768 mode with super fine quality I can get 270 pictures on a 128meg card (49.00 Viking Card); I had Wal-Mart print 4x6 and 5x7s and they are perfect; they look better than my 35MM. I'm very impressed with the manual adjustments you can make; from the 50-400ISO to the lighting. I took a hike in the Adrondack mountains and was able to adjust the lighting to take pictures in the forest. The movie mode is very good but you can't rotate movies and the 320x200 is so so when displaying on a 35" TV. One problem, downloading to my PC is extremely fast, about 150 pictures in 2 minutes but sending pictures back to the camera is painful at 10-20 seconds per picture, ouch; also you can not send AVIs back to the camera.
Still a great camera.
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Summary: So much digital camera in so little volume
Review: What this camera can do is truly amazing. The photos are very well done with good focus, exposure, etc. It allows you to exercise your creativity to an extraordinary degree. The panoramic stitching software is superb. I have taken more than 120 photos at a time and still had power to spare. You should get a large memory chip (128M or 256M) because the 8M is only good for 12-16 fine quality photos. Of course, it is a 2MP camera so you should not expect 13x19 prints but 5x7 or 8x10 are just fine. Panoramics are truly impressive - an 8x36 of New York City is stupendous. I am delighted with this in every way. It has exceeded all my expectations.
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Summary: Watch out for connecting with you computer
Review: The model has many great features. I am going to point out two areas where I am disappointed for your reference:
1. I have 3 computers with different operating systems: Win98, 2000, and XP. First I noticed that the camera couldn't be connected through UBS as a remote drive. You have to use the provided Canon software to link it. After several efforts of installing and uninstalling the software, I could only make the Win2000 linked and had no luck with other two. I tried to download the latest drivers from the Canon Website and it didn't help. It is a nightmare to download the pictures.
2. I could not find a way to moniter the battery power level except for the red warning sign when battery is almost gone.
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Summary: Great Camera Too Pricy
Review: I have the camera for a few weeks now. So far my impression of the camera is very positive. In the sub-compact catagory, the S330 probably have the best image quality (in my opinion). There are some issues under low light conditions. I think you should take this into consideration if you are looking at this camera. 1. For example, the auto-focus have a hard time locking under low light conditions. The picture is actually in focus, but the indictator says otherwise. As long as you hold the camera still for long shutter speeds the camera should take a well focused picture under low light conditions. The focus assist light is not that great either, but most other models in this catagory don't even have this feature. 2. Not a good camera to take distant objects at night. The flash is too small and weak, but that is a trade off for having a small camera. 3. The biggest issue with this camera is probably the auto white balance. If you use the auto mode under artificial light, the AWB feature doesn't work well at all!!! But this can be corrected under manual mode. I hope Canon will have a firmware fix for this. Overall, it's hard for you to go wrong buying this little camera. The image quality is above average. Its size and construction is top of the class. My only real big complain is the camera is too pricy for 2MP. Oh... In addition, 50 bucks for another battery is not that cheap either (you should get one for long trips). 8MB compact flash card is so somewhat useless (only 10-32 max shots depending on the quality). So you probably to have spend another 150 dollars to make the camera "complete". If you haven't looked at other subcompacts, I recommend Nikon Coolpix 2500 and Minolta DiMage X. Those are great cameras too, but S330 filled my needs betters than those two. Cannon S30 and S40 are great, too (suffer the same low light problems <- from what I heard).
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Summary: Excellent Camera!
Review: I would like to rate this camera with 5 stars, but there are a few features that I miss. 1)No battery status. I have not yet found a way to find out how much battery is left at any given time. The camera suddenly alerts you when you have about 6-8 photos left to snap. 2)No case. Camera does not come with a case of any kind. I would like to protect the nice finish on the camera. 3)Problems to transfer the MPEG (the less than 30 second movies) to the computer. The MPEG movies did not automatically transfer to the computer with the rest of the images, not sure if you have to change the settings to do so?? 4)No power cord. The camera does not come with a power cord, so you constantly have to run the camera on batteries, even when you have it hooked up to the computer. However, I did a lot of research before buying this camera. It's my second digital camera, and I'm overall very satisfied!! The camera takes great pictures, the flash is strong enough at night, and the size makes it fit snuggly in your jeans pocket! I also bought a 256 MG flash card...This is a must!! The Flash Card works perfectly!! I have not yet bought an extra battery. The battery included in the S330 has 30% more capacity then the previous models in the powershot series. I snapped about 180 pictures with a fully charged battery, and when do you really to snap more than that during one day??! I really recommend this camera! It's a go! Good luck!...
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Summary: Canon Powershot S330 (Awesome)
Review: We purchased the Powershot camera for the birth of our son. The quality is outstanding. It even takes short videos. The price is unbeatable for what you get out of this camera. There are so many functions available, but it's not confusing like most cameras. We shopped around for almost a year and found out that the Powershot was by far the best! Highly recommended for the everyday user!
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Summary: Diminishing returns?
Review: I have been a dedicated digital Elph user since the first S100 was released and have really gotten my money's worth from that camera. It was not, however, a perfect camera, and the S300 attempted to address its major shortcomings. First of all, the zoom jumped to 3:1 rather than the old 2:1, yielding a big improvement in utility. The S300 also added a 30 second movie function, which once you mastered the download process, really added zip to Internet photo apps. Lastly, the control wheel with embedded power switch worked far better than the old recessed power button, which in my mind was a real problem with the S100. Now, the new S330 updates the S300 with better battery management and higher amperage, and adds several new user controls. It does *not* add the anticipated 3 megapixel resolution, nor improve upon the optical zoom. The question now is whether the digital Elph series is worth the premium one pays for its compactness. For considerably less money, one can buy other digicams that are only modestly larger but rather better equipped. Personally, I would say that finding an S110 or even an S300 would be a better approach value-wise for someone intent on getting a camera of this size that is of good quality. I believe the S330 has merely gilded the proverbial lily.
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Summary: Great Camera!!
Review: I received this camera 2 days ago and I absolutely love it! It has a lot of features but is very easy to figure out. I would definitely recommend this camera to first time digital camera buyers along with a compact flash card reader. It downloads pictures to the computer faster and without draining battery power from the camera. It's worth it to pay the extra for the resolution and the zoom. Plus, it's very compact at 3.7" by 2.5". Check it out!!!
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Summary: Can't beat this little guy!
Review: All I have to say is, wow! I've had my s330 for about a month now and I have been nothing but impressed. I am still amazed at how much this little thing can do. This camera really is only slightly larger than those disposable cameras many people buy. It is also quite light making it ideal to carry with you wherever you go. The interface is actually really intuitive with most options being labeled by easy to understand pictures as opposed to words. I was also impressed by how well it did with fast moving pictures. My only reccomendation at all is that you buy a 128MB card to go with it. With the extra space you can use the highest compression and size settings for even better looking pictures. The price might be a little scary at first, but trust me when I say you won't regret it.
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Summary: An absolutely incredible little camera
Review: I bought the S330 3 days before leaving for Moscow & St. Petersburg. Based on reviews read here and at other sites I also bought a 256MB memory card and an extra battery. The basics of operation took about 20 minutes and 15-20 photos of the backyard, by the second day of my trip operation was effortless. The zoom is quite impressive and most pictures were flawless; whether from a boat, through glass, from a moving car, whatever, even an amateur like myself got some truly special photos. I had a 128MB card from another camera and took it with me, a bonus, the memory cards aren't specific to the camera and you can get real cheap memory on-line from secondary distributers or borrow the cards from freinds with other digital cameras. The batteries charge very quickly, and with two I was able to leave one charging at the hotel and the other in the camera, but I could've easily carried both all day - full charge takes less than an hour. I never had any power problems, I also got in the habit of turning the camera off between shots however. Which brings me to my only real complaint, the on/off switch requires sustained pressure for 2-4 seconds, its not usually problem getting the shot you want but it could be - and it was a little annoying. Since I had so much memory I used 1600x1200 and the finest detail for every shot, and I still took over 350 photos and had room for about 75 more. Now that I'm home its giving me all kinds of options for re-sizing and zooming into whatever details I like most in the picture. The picture review setting on this camera is one of its best features, you can actually zoom into the photo you just took to be sure you've got the level of detail or particular aspect of a subject that you might've wanted. I ended-up retaking several photos and getting precisely the picture I was hoping for. I own an older Sony and one of the original Kodaks, and I can't recommend this camera enough. Good Luck.
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