I always wanted to get a good yet easy to use digital camera. The Olympus mju300 which I have been using isn't good anymore. It can't photo under the bright sun and terrible when snapping photo in low light condition.
Last week, I get this unit of digital camera from by younger brother. He has just bought this camera few month ago but now he has changed to a Nikon D80 DSLR camera instead.

It was the awesome Canon Powershot S3IS. Well I have been wanted to buy this camera though and now I really get to use this awesome camera. Gosh, you won't know how happy am I to test it.
Well, this may not be the camera that I would bring along snap a photo the chicken rice I ate when I go for lunch as it don't seems to fit into my pocket.

It even comes with a Conversion Lens Adaptor making it totally looks like a DSLR Camera in fact, the Canon S3IS is not really a DSLR camera.
DSLR stands for Digital Single-Lens Reflex which is a camera mechanism system used for the hi end camera and a DSLR uses a much larger sensor compared with the normal compact camera.
For instance, the Canon Powershot G7 (10 megapix) camera uses a 7.48mm x 3.52mm CCD sensor while the Canon EOS 400D(10 megapix also) uses 22.2mm x 14.8mm CMOS sensor. That was almost 3 times the size of a same megapixel compact camera.

Hmm, wouldn't I looks like a professional photographer with this thing strap on my neck. This 6 mega pixel camera comes with a lot of function. The icons in the menu is even more than the icon on my computer desktop. Guess I'm going to stick to the Auto Mode for a while.
Things that I like the most on this camera is it has an astonishing 12X optical zoom. Now that I don't have to climb up to the tree to snap a photo a cuckoo bird.

This is a normal snap shot without any zoom applied. Yeah, it is right in front of my house doorstep.

Normal digital camera has 3x optical zoom. Well, it does help a lil bit if you were to adjust the focus size when snapping photo of some body.

At 12x zoom, things seems to be much more larger. You may even see if there is any ants or spider crawling on the plant if you open the photo to its actual size.
Well, I will still take some time to learn how to handle this thing. I still haven't got the user's manual yet and it don't seems downloadable from the internet but I enjoyed every shot from this camera.

Also, I would like to thanks my brother for giving me an opportunity to use this great camera. I love this camera so much. Thanks a million to you.
Oh yeah, I hope you could get your blog up soon too. Not that I ever saw a blog developed on Flash before. I will be waiting for that.
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great camera, i've used it before too, very good macro mode too.
btw you should look at the ccd's surface area, it'll be around 26mm square compared to the 400d's some 328mm square. That's more than 10 times of light gathering surface. :)
I like this D camera before but the disadvantage of the this camera was using AA battery if not I am mistaken. Overall is good especially by capturing video and great ISO controlling.
well I don't really know what's its ccd size in mm but if it was 26mm, that would be terrific for a non DSLR camera.
Yeah, it uses 4 AA batteries, i think its good too as it could easily available in case the batt run out.
Bad thing is that it doesn't have a battery indicator
http://www.canons3is.com/
http://www.dpreview.com/
http://www.dcresource.com/
check this forum also
http://www.dcresource.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=10
most of canon prosumer using S3 IS.
quite many S3 IS users also. enjoy.
haha, my husband also got 1 new canon S3 IS. It can capture nice motion pictures, but he complain the quality of the still picture, color still cant compare Sony ler.
Nice Semi SLR... my self also own a semi, Minolta Z1, almost the same range with urs, i guest canon are better then mine...i plan to have a Nikon D80 soon
D80 was great, my brother was using it. But it was too pro and very bulky for my liking. since I wasn't that pro in photography, I guess I'll just get a D40 or equivalent class DSLR next time.
hye!! im looking for a silicone grease in ipoh..
i know there are some camera needs lubricating..
need to use on my flashlights thread..
have any ideas where to get them in ipoh??
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It's a great camera, hope you enjoy it and learn to get the most of it. You can check Digisniper for some tips and articles :)