Cannon S1- best ultra zoom camera??

Image stablilization is a very essential feature of a good ultra zoom camera and any camera with good zoom but lacking this feature would suffer.

All the ultra-zoom cameras face problems like purple fringing, barrel distortion, auto-focus problem, focus delay and shutter lag.

S1 suffers a lot in purple fringing and lacks in auto-focus capabilities and image noise(if anybody wants to say about it, speak freely). it excels in shutter-lag though. another feature is it's awesome movie mode with zoom.

Other contender includes panasonic's fz-10, kodak dx-6490 and oly's c-750(or c-770).

Only fz-10 has IS but it is way much costly. it features a very good lens(leica). the other two does it's job well without IS and their price is cheap(considering fz-10). of these two c-750 wins because of it's manual controls and image quality.
So, S1 is the best ultrazoom camera or does it still lack better capabilities?

Hi,

For the record, any camera can be fitted with image stabilisation and without the problems caused by the elecrtronic ones eating batteries.

The system is called a tripod and cable or remote release. No batteries required and you can use zooms out to 600 mm equivalent without any problems.

And you can use speeds like 1/50th second to get DoF at smaller apertures.

Regards, David

Maybe expensive where you live? I paid under $500 for it. Less than or about the same as a Oly-750. For the same price you get an extra MP, the best manual focusing control of maybe any prosumer camera, very little CA or distortion, and 12X zoom versus 10X. Seems like a bargin to me.

yawvaar said:

All the ultra-zoom cameras face problems like purple fringing,
barrel distortion, auto-focus problem, focus delay and shutter lag.

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I think the FZ10 offers better images than by Oly-4040, which is an older 4MP with a 3:1 zoom. The 828 isn't an ultra zoom but has lots of purple fringing. So, I don't think the problems you mentioned come from the Ultra zoom - they are present in all camera's.