Canon S5 IS

Prior to going on our trip to New Orleans, Lizzie got me a Canon S5 IS Digital camera, which is the camera that I had been checking out at the local stores. The Canon S5 IS is a medium sized camera, at just below a pound and maybe an inch shorter in length than Canon’s Rebel. The S5 has lots of great features that make it a solid camera that does not require the purchase of extra lenses. Throw in the 4 AA batteries and you are ready to take pictures. The camera also comes with a 32megabyte SD memory card, but I swapped out the 2gig memory card in my other camera. Note:Must remember to reformat the card.

Features I have used thus far include:

Add sound bytes to a picture. This is great for adding reminders about pictures such as where the picture was taken, notes for future blog posts, names of people in pictures, pronunciations of words that may relate to the pictures, etc…
Movie mode with zoom during movie. I used to hate not being able to zoom in and out while making a video.
Various settings for night photography. I really need to sit down and work on this, because frequently Lizzie and I are out at restaurants that have “mood” lighting, and I want to take pictures of our meals.
The color filter allows you to take black and white pictures while filtering out or in certain colors. So if I want to take a picture that highlights a red rose, I can make everything else b&W and leave the red rose red.

Well at any rate, there are lots of cool features on the S5 that should keep me busy for quite a while.

Check out the New Orleans Picture set to see the photos I took with the Canon S5 IS.

If you have an S5 or another camera that you love, let me know. What features of your camera do you love or hate?

Buy a Canon S5 IS

Written by Pixelhead on November 8th, 2007 with 17 comments.
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Canon Digital Camera

We are headed out to New Orleans this upcoming weekend and as Lizzie has said this should be a prime opportunity for taking photos. It sounds like it would be a good opportunity to buy a new digital camera. My current Kodak EasyShare C643 is an Okay basic point and shoot camera. My biggest gripe with it is that I miss too many shots because of the delay.

I had been to BestBuy the other day and was window shopping(big mistake) and decided I liked the Canon Digital camera that had 12x zoom. I didn’t have anything to write with, so I am not sure what the model was that I was considering.

I had also seen a Sony Digital Camera that I thought was great, but then Lizzie and I are a little scared of putting Sony Software on my computer. I have learned to be cautious of downloading software from Sony.
But this morning, Lizzie was online comparing Cameras and she came up with several cameras that I could pick from which included:

Neither of these cameras was the one I had seen, but of the two, I think the S3 would be a better camera for my needs(wants).

The camera that I saw I believe was the Canon PowerShot S5 IS, which is also pictured above. The Canon S5 is still a point and shoot camera, but it does have some more advanced features that I believe I would love to learn to use.

What Camera do you recommend?

I am looking at Point and Click models, and don’t want to be changing lenses at this point in time. Does anyone have any opinions on these cameras, or recommend another Digital Camera?

Buy a Canon S5 IS

Written by Pixelhead on November 2nd, 2007 with 9 comments.
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