Re: History of Canon's S & G series cameras
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. My first digital was the original S100 (Digital Elph), which has a 2MP sensor. I loved that camera, which I still own, and took thousands of shots with it, and printed a bunch at 8.5 X 11. I also bought, and still have, the S45, which was the first digital I had with manual controls, different ISO settings (all the way up to a noisy 400), and RAW capability (which I only used a couple of times, to see what the big deal was). Regarding RAW, it has a cool feature, which I haven't seen on other cameras. In JPEG mode, if you wanted to save the shot you'd just taken in RAW, you could press a button while the shot was still visible in review, and the RAW would be saved. I also have a couple of the SD series, including a curvy 8MP model (I'm blanking on the model number right now). And I have the more recent S100, which is amazingly compact for the quality of images it produces. They all just gather dust now, though, because I also have the G7XII, the M6 (and M), and 7DII (and 20D). It wasn't until I typed this post that I really thought about the insanely large collection of unused digital cameras I have lying around in my study. I've only sold three digital cameras to help buy an upgrade: the 300D, to upgrade to 20D; the 50D, to upgrade to 7D; and the 7D, to upgrade to 7DII. The rest have lost so much of their value, by the time I wasn't using them anymore, that it didn't seem worth it to try to sell them.
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