Canon PowerShot S2 IS Digital Camera

Pros: Zoom, battery life, features, cost, video recorder
Cons: shutter speed could be faster - would go with a newer model

We actually own the Canon Powershot S2 - bought off Amazon Marketplace.  I would HIGHLY recommend doing this to anyone who thinks they want a digital SLR camera.  We knew we wanted something better, but did not want to break the bank on a high ...

Pros: Great features; decent customer support
Cons: Weak Iris

I purchased my Canon Powershot S2 IS three years ago. The two drawbacks to the camera are a relatively slow shutter speed and the occasional fuzzy picture (image stabilization helps). The camera is, however, feature rich. I have been happy with the ...

Pros: Great zoom, great pics, good battery life, excellent movie mode
Cons: not a pocket camera but they can't all be that small

I bought my canon S2 IS about 3 years ago when it was the biggest tele zoom on the market(at least in the smaller body). I bout it over the Kodak, sony, and even the panasonic. I wasn't able to find a panasonic fz camera anywhere at my local electronic ...

Pros: Optical zoom of 12x, video recording,
Cons: battery life, large video recording file

After days of tiresome research into which camera would best correlate to my needs I decided upon the Canon S2. Ive owned this camera for a year now and I remain thoroughly pleased with the cameras performance. By far the best feature is the extensive ...

Pros: Good pictures, excellent 12x optical zoom
Cons: Tends to have more problems that one would think

NOTE: This is not a proper review. No need to review a 2-3 year old camera when it has been reviewed extensively already. However, I want to alert potential buyers with respect to a serious problem with this camera: the black screen of death which pretty ...

Pros: The S2 is fantastic, no more needs to be said
Cons: No cons at first but please read update for major flaw that developed

Last winter I decided to invest in a new camera and after doing a lot of reading reviews and specs on cameras, I was about to settle for a Canon Powershot S3 but was balking at the price, then I lucked onto a review that compared the S3 to the S2 and I ...

Pros: 12X zoom, crisp pictures, Image stabilization
Cons: Manual flash

When I needed more out of my digital camera than what my C anon A520 could give me, I fell into the unfamiliar jungle of the digital camera world. Megapixels, digital zoom, optical zoom, f-stop, aperture...where ...

Pros: Durable, Even for novice camera users, picture perfect
Cons: Very close up pictures could be a bit better.

Compact 5.0 Mega pixel Digital Camera Super Long 12X Optical / 4x Digital / 48X Combined Zoom with Optical Stabilizer Technology Takes still pictures, while in Movie Form High Quality 30 frames per second movie recording USB 2.0 interface ...

Pros: Great zoom and clear pictures. Easily focused, adjustable shutter speed, video camera, low price.
Cons: Comes with a very small SD picture card.

I bought the Cannon Power Shot S2 IS Digital Camera four months ago for a one month vacation I took to South Africa. Originally, I was looking for a 35mm camera because of my previous poor experiences with digital cameras. I was only looking to spend ...

Pros: Great video and audio. 12x zoom means you have an over 440mm lens equivalent.
Cons: Horrible viewfinder in direct sunlight. Slow auto focus in full zoom.

Had this cam for 9 months. Used mainly for family and classroom pics. Took it on a Colorado River Rafting Trip this summer (14 days). Carried it EVERYWHERE. Lots of extreme heat, miniscule sand particles, water. Worked like a champ. I used a Lensmate ...

Pros: PICTURE QUALITY! AA batteries, big zoom, ease of use.
Cons: Lens cap, very rarely slow AF when max zoomed

This is my third digicam. I started out with with the HP Photsmart 215, and thought I was onto something special. I followed this up a couple of years later with a Fuji Finepix 2650. I found that I wanted two things-optical zoom and more resolution, and ...

Pros: lightweight, good picture quality, easy to use, image stabilization feature
Cons: no .tif or .raw file formats, no remote control

Although it designed to look and feel like an SLR, the S2 IS is really more of a point-and-shoot model. This perhaps explains why Canon chose to include only the lossy .jpg format for images, which I expected would be a problem. However, my experience ...

Pros: Big and fast zoom, SLR-like features (MF, etc), flip LDC, standard AA batteries.
Cons: Ok EVF, lousy lens cap, almost no extras included, LCD useless under bright situations.

The Canon S2 IS is a 12x zoom camera with 5 Mp, silver color. There are other very similar cameras in the market, I will talk about the S2 IS comparing with what were for me the other 12x zoom candidates (Panasonic DMC-FZ7: 6Mp and Sony DSC-H1: 5Mp and ...

Pros: The lens, IS, the size (smaller than an SLR), the myriad of modes
Cons: The size (larger than a compact); no raw, tiff or hotshoe for flash.

I had been looking for a camera that would work well while travelling. I like travelling to out of the way places, primarily with backpacks and having a wide variety of adventures that require versatility. I own a Canon Elan IIe film camera, and have ...

Pros: Excellent quality pictures, very fast start up time and very quick picture taking times
Cons: 16 meg card to small, not a shirt pocket size camera ordinary alkaline only supplied.

I bought the S2 Is when my daughter had twins and my old digital camera shutter was so slow that all I had for my efforts was the back of their heads as they walked away. Now and again I have wanted to take closer pictures then the 3 times optical that ...