Canon Powershot S20 Review
Officially Casio beat Canon to the 3.34 megapixel announcement
(well at least to the general public anyway), howeve rumours of the S20
had been popping up in various cyber-spaces for a couple of months now.
Just last week Canon announced
the S20, a 3.34 megapixel (3.14 megapixels effective - 2048 x 1536)
version of its successful, recent, but popular S10. Features wise the
S20 is identical to the S10, body size, operation, menus and software
are all the same. The case is champagne rather than silver and the only
other difference is the "3.3" and "S20" on the front.
Just makes me wonder how happy recent purchasers of the S10 are...
The camera for this review is an "MT sample"
(which basically means pre-release), the original unit supplied was replaced
by an MT2 sample which though still pre-release is deemed very close to
final production (thus reviewable).
Because the S20 is so similar to the S10 I've re-used
some of my S10 review (mostly in operation and handling) for those readers
who haven't read it or just come for the S20 review. All camera shots,
timings, sampels and comparisons are new.
| From what I've seen so far the news
is good, the S20 takes the solid foundation of the S10 and adds an
amazingly detailed CCD, better white balance, better colour balance
and overall sharper images.. There's a little more noise visible and
because of the extra pixels we're starting to see evidence of chromatic
abberations but other than that the S20 is an amazing little camera
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Jeff
over at DCResource has finished his Canon PowerShot S20 review, here's what
he says "One of my favorite cameras of 1999 was the Canon PowerShot
S10. Why? Well, it was light, easy to use, fast, and took great photos too!
When the S20 was announced, I was excited -- it took everything that made
the S10 so great, and added a 3.3 megapixel CCD!" Steve
posts a review of Canon's Champagne S20, he says "Like the PowerShot
S10, the S20 is a super-compact, all-metal bodied camera that is ready to
easily take on life's little bumps and knocks. For a palm-sized camera the
3-megapixel images are simply gigantic and guarantee photo-quality prints
to 8x10" and beyond. Canon has got another mini-sized winner here. "
Say
hello to the Canon Powershot S20, a 3.34 Megapixel version of the S10, it's
almost identical (except for its new golden skin) in specification to the
S10, the big difference is the 40% increase in image area (2048 x 1536 vs.
1600 x 1200) due to the new big CCD. The Canon BeBit site have just posted
specifications and four sample images.
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