without being conscious of it - with the Canon S70 I may have finally realized that dream of carrying a pocket sized camera that could almost match the quality and everything I can do on an SLR.
I have owned several pretty "serious" 35mm SLRs since 1970..... including the Canon F-1, Olympus OM-2n, OM-4, Minolta Maxxum 7xi.....
Despite all of these being fabulous cameras - and I have taken some photos with them that I have been particularly happy with - including competition winners (and one where I didn't even enter the photo
) - I used 35mm p&s cameras out of choice for my musician shots - because of their portability, being less imposing, better optical viewfinders in darker environments, and actual quicker working.
It was fairly natural for me to migrate to p&s style digicams for my same types of photo subjects (i have used digicams extensively since 1999).
Digicam of the Canon S70 type are far more versatile with a lot more exposure control than most 35mm p&s.
Overall I really like the Canon S70 but it is not without its failings one of which for me is appearant problems with low light focussing BUT - please see "Any Problems Encountered" section -
- please see this thread with lots of photographic examples and test shots (can't seem to link - copy and paste the url) -
My new Canon S70
forums.powershot-a.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11249
Please also checkout the photos in the "links" (need to copy and past the urls) in my sig.
Shots taken after 050607 are all on the S70
I have owned several pretty "serious" 35mm SLRs since 1970..... including the Canon F-1, Olympus OM-2n, OM-4, Minolta Maxxum 7xi.....
Despite all of these being fabulous cameras - and I have taken some photos with them that I have been particularly happy with - including competition winners (and one where I didn't even enter the photo
) - I used 35mm p&s cameras out of choice for my musician shots - because of their portability, being less imposing, better optical viewfinders in darker environments, and actual quicker working. It was fairly natural for me to migrate to p&s style digicams for my same types of photo subjects (i have used digicams extensively since 1999).
Digicam of the Canon S70 type are far more versatile with a lot more exposure control than most 35mm p&s.
Overall I really like the Canon S70 but it is not without its failings one of which for me is appearant problems with low light focussing BUT - please see "Any Problems Encountered" section -
- please see this thread with lots of photographic examples and test shots (can't seem to link - copy and paste the url) -
My new Canon S70
forums.powershot-a.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11249
Please also checkout the photos in the "links" (need to copy and past the urls) in my sig.
Shots taken after 050607 are all on the S70