http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/ Engadget Comments for Canon bulks up PowerShot line with 8 upgraded compacts http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/Feb 21st 2006 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/Feb 21st 2006 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/Feb 21st 2006 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/Feb 21st 2006 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/
i'll upgrade if they bring out a sd730 aka 3" screen w/ image stabilization and that sexy tri-color scheme!]]>Feb 21st 2006 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/Feb 21st 2006 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/
i was eyeing the A620.. but i still have to see A700. although when that means, i have to downgrade the pixels..]]>Feb 21st 2006 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/
It always interesting to see Canon selling cameras at an (in my opinion) often unreasonable price-point and people not complaining about it while Sony is selling cameras at quite good prices - but people are always complaining about the Mem-Sticks...

The S700 is suposed to sell at 500$ - everything for the IS (afaik no Software-solution) and 4x optical? If it started at 28mm, perhaps I could understand it but this way?]]>Feb 21st 2006 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/
Because it's not necessary. The megapixel race is effectively over in point and shoot cameras. You can make an 8x10 print with perfect quality from a good 3.2 megapixel camera; 6 megapixels is already overkill, although it does allow you room to crop.

Also, I think most people are now wise to the fact that resolution is not completely dependent on the number of pixels in the sensor. The number of lines a camera is able to actually resolve (i.e. its sharpness) depends more on the lens and image processor than the sensor. Stick a 50 megapixel sensor on a camera with a crappy lens and you're still only going to get around 2 megapixels worth of image data.

DSLR's will continue to get megapixel upgrades until a consensus has been reached that they have equalled the absolute resolution of the best 35mm film stock. (That's close to happening in the top-end cameras.) "Medium format" digital cameras will probably keep increasing sensor resolution well beyond that. But even a lot of DSLR users don't have a need to make poster-sized prints, so more than 8 or 10 megapixels is just not necessary and there will always be a market for low-end DSLR's with lower-res sensors.

Given the target output of point and shoot cameras, though, 6-8 megapixels is way more than enough.
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My S2 IS manual describes it like it's all hardware based.

Look here for more: http://tinyurl.com/c9huk]]>Feb 21st 2006 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/
With Motion-JPEG, I get about 9 mins on a 1GB SD card on my Canon SD350.

But with MPEG-4 on a roughly equivalent Casio, it gives approximately 4x that at a similar quality.

As I sometimes use a windscreen mounted camera as a "drive cam," it would be nice to get more time without having to fork out for a very expensive 4GB card.]]>Feb 21st 2006 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/Feb 21st 2006 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/
And, they are using a 1/2.5" sensor in the SD700, not the better 1/1.8" like the SD500/550, not a winner in my eyes.]]>Feb 22nd 2006 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/Feb 22nd 2006 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/canon-bulks-up-powershot-line-with-8-upgraded-compacts/Jun 4th 2007 11:28AM