| Canon PowerShot Pro Series S5 IS 8.0MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom | 
 enlarge | Brand: Canon
Category: Photography
List Price: $449.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (406 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1480
Color: BLACK
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Optical Zoom: 12
Display Size: 2.5
Battery: 4 AA
Maximum Focal Length: 72
Minimum Focal Length: 6
Maximum Resolution: 8
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 3.1 x 4.6 x 3.2
MPN: S5
Model: S5
UPC: 013803079616
EAN: 0013803079616
ASIN: B000Q3043Y
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 8.0-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 16 x 22-inch prints | | • | Ultra-powerful 12x optical zoom; up to ISO 1600 for steady shooting in any lighting conditions | | • | High-resolution 2.5-inch vari-angle LCD for easy shooting at any angle | | • | DIGIC III Image Processor with improved Face Detection Technology and red-eye correction for sharper images | | • | Print/Share Button for easy direct printing and downloading |
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Product Description
The ultra-powerful 12x optical zoom on the PowerShot S5 IS means you'll get the shot you want with no compromise, yet that's only the beginning of what makes this camera so exciting. The S5 IS is loaded with many of Canon's latest advanced technologies including the DIGIC III Image Processor, so both still images and movies are rendered with fine detail and luminous clarity. And now ambitious photographers have even greater creative latitude thanks to an included hot shoe adapter that allows you to attach Canon Speedlite EX Series external flashes.PowerShot S5 IS is compact and portable, with streamlined controls and a sure, steady grip. And you'll want to take it everywhere, because inside is a level of photographic power that's truly impressive. 8.0 megapixels ensure deeply detailed images - giving you complete freedom to enlarge an image or any section of an image and crop to your exact specifications. The 12x optical zoom brings this compact digital camera into the realm of serious photography. It has the power to take you right up onto the stage and into the end zone for the shot you really want. Zooming is fast and silent thanks to the ultrasonic motor drive.
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 Canon S5 IS - good but not a point and shoot January 1, 2009
Canon PowerShot Pro Series S5 IS 8.0MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom
I bought a refurbished Canon Powershot S5 IS to save some $'s. I replaced a 3 yr old S2 IS. It developed some blurring on the left of the image in the last few months (other than that reliable as heck) and at over $150 for Canon to repair, it was time to upgrade. The S5 is basically just an upgrade from the earlier Powershot S2 and S3. Same lens, just more pixels and some additional features and functionality.
I understand the problems with the camera series; low light focussing is difficult; chromatic abberations to the extremes of the image with high contrast edges; grainy shots above ISO 200, appalling lens cap concept. However, I fixed the lens cap issue by buying a lens adaptor and fitting a standard 52mm UV filter. I can use the usual snap on lens cap with no problem. I also have protected the lens surface this way. It makes for a bulkier camera, (2" added to lens length) but I'd rather protect it than worry about carrying it. Having the same lens, I have been able to fit my adaptor to the S5. The movie function is invaluable. With this camera, I can take high quality photos and movies - very versatile! The Image Stabilization is great and works even in movie mode, eliminating the dreaded shaking at high zoom significantly. The flip-out and rotate LCD screen is good for those over-the-head shots in crowds. The traditional viewfinder, which I use most of the time, is also useful to stabilize the camera against your face and compose the shot in more detail, especially in bright sunshine. If you're an "older" photographer, you can understand the usefulness of the viewfinder.
This camera is not a pocket camera and neither is it a point and shoot. The functionality of this camera is amazing (the operations manual is 200 pages long!) and the image quality is very good. It also uses 4 AA batteries; very useful if you need more power from the local store!
If you know alot about photography, aperture settings, shutter settings, focussing fields, etc, but you don't want to carry a bulky digital SLR around, [I have a bag for the S5 that hangs around my belt with a velcro loop] and you want movie capability, then this is the camera for you. It really is a compact version of an SLR, but with movie capability.
If you know little about photography, and don't want to learn, then maybe you need a simpler camera.
Yes, the S5 IS has some image quality issues, but you won't notice in 95% of your photos. The other 5% can be dealt with with software most of the time!
 Awesome Camera December 23, 2008
I researched Many digital cameras before deciding on the canon Power Shot S5 IS, I asked around to a lot of Hobby and professional photographers
and finally went and bought it, Loved it from day one, I stood on my porch zoomed in on a stop sign that was almost 2 blocks away, and took a picture, Was able to see the stop sign like I was standing right in front of it!, Did the same thing with my [...] Vivitar Vivicam couldn't even see what I took a picture of it was a big blur.
Then I went and started taking pictures of the things that was my whole point in buying a new camera - MY birds, I was so tired of my violet parakeets coming out in different shades of blue with my other camera and explaining to people until i was blue in the face "no those birds are really violet not blue"
well those couple hundred shots, Blew my mind and I was hooked Even my blue birds were coming out more true to color
I love the fact you can zoom in while recording video (not a option on my old camera) and I just wish I would of picked this camera up soon I would of had a much better video to send to my parents of my daughters 6th Grade graduation and Talent show she was in. instead of one that you could barely see my daughter in.
The zoom button is in a excellent position
I have not had a single issue with the battery door , when its closed it is closed.
My only complaints and its 2 small ones is well one seems to be the same with every one, The lens cap the slightest touch and it falls off -Granted I enjoy the fact it comes off when turned on (never forget to take the lens cap off LOL)
and it goes drains batteries quick but only seemed to drain my rechargeable ones quickly, I can have non rechargeable ones in it for a few weeks
But I did just buy a new set of rechargeable batteries just haven't used them yet, Hopefully that will take care of the quick drain
Because charging them all night, then taking at the most 4 pictures and the batteries Die is very frustrating
I've owned this camera for over 5 months and I recommend it to any one who asks about cameras
great December 22, 2008
This camera rocks. I bought it to take to Disney World and the pictures i took looked every bit as good as my old Canon AE1SLR. It is bigger than most point and shoots but it has all the features you might ever want to use, In fact is has more features that i will probably ever use. It is somewhere between a point and shoot and a SLR. The price cant be beat.
AMAZING CAMERA December 14, 2008
This camera takes amazingly clear pictures and fits your hand like a glove. The movable screen is very nice for when you need shots lower or higher since you don't have to bend down or find a stool to stand on. I could go on for a while explaining all the details, but all you need to know is that this is an amazing camera at an amazing price, and you will not be disappointed if you buy it.
upgrading (?) from and AE 1 December 11, 2008
I own and love a Canon AE 1 but have been looking at the digital camers if only to be shed of the negatives, developing, and all the rest that comes with a film camera. I would love to have been able to go to a digital SLR but that wasn't in the books this year so I started looking down the scale a bit.
Is the S3 IS an upgrade from a film 35mm AE 1 with a good assortment of lenses? After owning the S3 for six or seven months now and taken somewhere around a thousand pictures with it and, with the exception of extreme zoom range pictures, I'll be damn if I can tell the difference. One thing I do notice is the money not spent having to pay to develop all those bracketing/varied angle/change of lighting/etc shots that go in the trash can after the best of the sequence is picked. Then of course there is the two or three thousand photos I can shoot without having to change film.
The decision made to do the change I read numerous reviews on every major brand digital camera maker's offerings, examined every options those cameras offered, compared those options to my AE 1, and somewhat considered price (most were so closely priced the issue was almost moot). My conclusion was, obviously, that the S3 gave the best bang for the buck and was superior to the newer S5. I have not been disappointed. Well, there is that lens cover thing, it isn't automatic, you have to put it on and take it off yourself. However that's so minor it borders on compulsive obsessive.
NOTE somewhere in the user pictures section of the S3 I have posted a macro called flower. Just as an example of what the camera can do.
MikeG
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