Product Description

The sleek PowerShot S3 IS digital camera offers you high resolution, an extra-long 12x zoom, advanced yet easy-to-use movie functions plus great new shooting options. The exclusive "MovieSnap" feature allows you to take a full 6 Megapixel still image at any time while you are recording a movie. Also, with Image Stabilizer technology, images and movies taken with the S3 IS are sharp and smooth, even when the camera gets jostled. It's everything you need to capture the fun, excitement and beauty of your active life - wherever it takes you!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1930 in Camera & Photo
• Color: Silver
• Brand: Canon
• Model: 1101B001
• Released on: 2006-05-09
• Dimensions: 3.00" h x 3.10" w x 4.50" l, .91 pounds
• Display size: 2

Features

• 6.0-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 14 x 19-inch prints
• 12x optical zoom lens with USM and UD lens element; 2.0-inch vari-angle LCD display
• 20 shooting modes and My Colors photo effects
• DIGIC II, iSAPS, and Flexizone AF/AE for fast, precise results; 2.3-frame-per-second continuous shooting performance
• Powered by 4 AA-size batteries (alkaline batteries supplied); stores images on SD memory cards (16 MB card included)

Customer Reviews

Loved it until it died ...
I loved this camera - until, not too long after the warranty period ran out, it stopped working. Specifically, the image is always black ... the display works OK but it acts as if the lens cap is on even when it's not. Now they want $160 and 4 weeks to repair!

I have always handled the camera with care, there were no drops or bumps.

This is my last Canon. It's a fine product when it works but I expect more lifetime from such an expensive product.

Like it when it works......
We have owned this camera for about a year now and most of the pictures turn out nicely. Video works much better than our last camera. I love how far it zooms without making image fuzzy. However I went to turn it on last weekend and it flashed at me and went off, so I changed the batteries and had the same problem.. It's now in the shop thank goodness we bought a warranty. The lens cap also keeps coming off.. Hope it gets fixed

Excited and happy at first.... now very disappointed :0(
I did weeks of research looking for a camera with a good zoom, a wide choice of aperture settings and good picture quality! I purchased this camera in April of 2007. It seemed to be working fine and I've taken hundreds of pictures with it. Now a year and 2 months later (2 months after the warranty expired) I went to go on a hike and tried to turn my camera on only to find that it was dead. We tried putting new batteries in with no avail. After returning home from my hike I started doing some research on the internet. I have found quite a few different posts that detail the very same problem as mine. One post mentions that a circuit board in the camera went out and it was almost $200 to fix it. I am a very disappointed customer at this point. I figured a camera that cost $ 350 would last longer than a little over a year. Canon has not issued a recall and hence will not repair it for free. I'm thinking I might need to look elsewhere for my next camera.