Canon S4 IS ?

Hi,

Does anybody know if there will be a successor to the S3 IS this year ? S4 SI maybe ?

I'm looking for a new camera and don't know I should get the S3 IS (12x zoom), Sony DSC H9 (15x zoom) or wait a while to see what Canon has got lined up for us.

Your thoughts ?

Thanks,
Simon

Simon07 said:

Hi,

Does anybody know if there will be a successor to the S3 IS this
year ? S4 SI maybe ?

I'm looking for a new camera and don't know I should get the S3 IS
(12x zoom), Sony DSC H9 (15x zoom) or wait a while to see what
Canon has got lined up for us.

Your thoughts ?

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Conventional wisdom is, if you need to get a camera in the next month, get the H9. Its sister camera, the H7 has shown some excellent images, but nothing in a stressed situation (High ISOs). The H9 feature set is a step above.

If you can wait til mid summer, wait to see what Canon comes up with. With the extra time it's taking it should be more than a simple tweak.

--mamallama

I havn't seen much about an S4 despite people asking since January. School will be out in a few weeks and people will be buying cameras for ceremonies, gifts, holidays etc. If there is no S4 in view now I would guess your not seeing one soon. The S3 is $310 USD at Abe's of Maine and thats dirt cheap imo. Hard to go wrong with that.

Simon: I am anxiously waiting for the replacement of the S3 IS. February and March are gone. We are in April! and no news from Canon, yet. I think that the upgrade will be of 360 degrees and no a simple increase in MP and LCD. A bigger sensor, a bigger optical zoom range: 18X, to change the design to DSLR-like:manual zoom and focus rings, no red eyes, to include infrared mode: The Sony H9 has it! I am positive sure Canon can include al these features in the all new S4/S5 IS. But, WHEN?

abcdelight said:

I havn't seen much about an S4 despite people asking since January.
School will be out in a few weeks and people will be buying cameras
for ceremonies, gifts, holidays etc. If there is no S4 in view now
I would guess your not seeing one soon. The S3 is $310 USD at Abe's
of Maine and thats dirt cheap imo. Hard to go wrong with that.

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No you can't go wrong except Abes of Maine is really Abes of Brooklyn, and we all know what that means.

My logic still hold if you don't need to rush into buying because it'll be cheaper at more reputable dealers when a replacement is announced. Supposedly that will be in May if the predictions are correct.

--mamallama

what does the fact that it is in brooklyn really mean?

Many of the Brooklyn dealers are nothing but a bunch of criminal racketeers. If you plan on dealing with one, make sure check out resellerratings.com. I've used Abe's without incident, but I generally use Beach Camera or it's twin, Buydig. The latter two are in New Jersey, not Brooklyn.

Yeah I think I'll leave it a couple of months, then get the H9 if I haven't heard anything by then.

Do you know if the IS is good on the H9/H7 ?

Simon

Yeah I'm ideally looking for a 15x or 18x zoom if the IS good enough etc.

Thanks,
Simon

siuyendiana said:

Simon: I am anxiously waiting for the replacement of the S3 IS.
February and March are gone. We are in April! and no news from
Canon, yet. I think that the upgrade will be of 360 degrees and no
a simple increase in MP and LCD. A bigger sensor, a bigger

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I think you mean 180 degrees. 360 degrees is actually zero.

--mamallama

Yes, 180 degrees. Do you know when? The S2 IS was announced on April 22, 2005, S3 IS: on February 21, 2006, so following the pattern: S4/S5 IS on April 22, 2007.

siuyendiana said:

Yes, 180 degrees. Do you know when? The S2 IS was announced on
April 22, 2005, S3 IS: on February 21, 2006, so following the
pattern: S4/S5 IS on April 22, 2007.

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Many here on this forum believe it will be in May. Seems like someone accurately predicted the Canon releases of February and included in the prediction was that the S3 replacement will be in May.

There is also speculation that the later-than-usual announcement is caused by Canon getting a late word of the big changes in Oly and Sony superzooms and went back to the drawing. So expect big changes in May.

--mamallama

Yes, hopefully! Let's cross our fingers for the big changes!

Bigger sensor AND bigger optical zoom range is highly unlikely. As you increase the size of the sensor, it becomes a lot more difficult to provide telephoto reach with a compact lens system.

A change in form factor would be nice. The current form factor is fashioned after SLRs, which was initially designed to accomodate film that went between two rolls. I wouldn't be surprised to see Canon moving the next supertele digicam to a camcorder-like form factor, e.g. a bigger brother of the TX1.

It is also about time that Canon support a more modern (and efficient) video format like MPEG4 - preferabbly H.264 in the S series digicams.

The S1 & S3 were announced in February, the S2 at the end of April. So if Canon follows the same pattern, there could be an S4 announcement in another couple weeks.

Mark

You must have flunked math, statistics AND logic.

The time that passed between April 22nd, 2005 to February 21st, 2006 is 305 days. If you continue that pattern then the next release would be 305 more days later--which is December 23rd, 2006. But wait...

Now since only 2 points have been established--4/22/05 and 2/21/06 as prior release dates--then there is NO definitive pattern established as nothing repeats. It would take a minimum of 3 points to establish a pattern. For example, 1, 3, 5. Then the next would by 7. Or 1, 5, 7 and then the next would be 11.

If you had two points--for example 1 and 5 how would you know if the next point ADDED or SUBTRACTED or DIVIDED or MULTIPLIED the 2 previous points or some other pattern? You can't.

So 1 and then 5 could be followed by 6 or by 5 again or by 9 or by just about ANY number actually.

Thus the next camera release could be subtracting 305 from 365 or 60 days from 305 days (245 days) and this would be a release date of October 24, 2006. Or it could possibly be April 22, 2007 as you have postulated (which is just ONE possibility of an infinite number).

You have simplly postulated ONE possible date using a non-exisiting pattern (an assumption). The actual date cannot be determined with only 2 points unless you make an assumption--which is a 3rd point in an of itself.

Sorry to burst your bubble!

So it could be anytime!!

Or not.

Now you went and did it, you ruined their imaginary speculation with facts and statistics. You should be ashamed of yourself.

me wonders just how many photos they missed with the camera's they have, while trying to find out information about a camera they can't get and don't know if it even exists ...

Humans are silly like that, yes they are.

Everybody is free of writing his/her own opinion and it does not hurt. What I wrote was only my opinion and was based on previous releases dates: S1 IS: 2/04, S2 IS: 4/05, S3 IS: 2/06 and S4/S5 IS: 4/07??? Who knows? Everybody is speculating when Canon will release the replacement of the S3 IS. Silly was the thread you posted on Sunday about the release of the S4 IS. It was a silly joke. Thanks.

HI! Do not complicate your life with math, symbols, logic, etc. The release date can be any date. Who knows?