Canon S2 IS

Coming to an Ant near you... Bought this thing on Amazon.com for a steal of a deal -- $279. I guess I could wait a bit longer to see it drop some more (I remember seeing the previous Canon S1 IS for as low as $229 on Dell once last year), but I want it for my upcoming vacations and trips.

Canon S2 IS

• Type of camera: Compact digital camera with built-in flash and 12x Optical / 4x Digital / 48x Combined Zoom
• Image capture device: 5.0-megapixel, 1/2.5-inch type Charge Coupled Device (CCD)
• Total pixels: Approximately 5.3 megapixels
• Effective pixels: Approximately 5.0 megapixels
• Lens focal length: 6.0-72.0mm, f2.7-3.5 (35mm film equivalent: 36-432mm)
• Digital zoom: 4x
• Focusing range: Normal: 1.6 feet/50 centimeters to infinity (wide), 3.0 feet/90 centimeters to infinity (telephoto); macro: 3.9 inches to 1.6 feet/10 to 50 centimeters; super macro: 0 to 3.9 inches/0 to 10 centimeters; TTL sutofocus (continuous/single)
• Optical viewfinder: 0.33-inch low-temperature polycrystalline silicon TFT color LCD
• LCD monitor: 1.8-inch low-temperature polycrystalline silicon TFT color LCD with variable-angle function
• LCD pixels: Approximately 115,000 pixels
• LCD coverage: 100%
• Maximum aperture: f2.7 (wide) to f3.5 (telephoto)
• Shutter speed: 15 seconds to 1/3200 second; slow shutter speed of 15 to 1.3 seconds is only available in select modes
• Sensitivity: AUTO, ISO 50/100/200/400 equivalent
• Light metering method: Evaluative, center-weighted average, spot metering frame with spot mode is center-fixed
• Exposure control method: Program AE, Shutter speed-priority AE, Aperture-priority AE, ManualAE Lock is available
• Exposure compensation: +/-2 stops in 1/3-stop increments
• White balance control: Auto, pre-set (Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Flash), custom flash
• Built-in flash: Operation modes: Auto, Red-Eye Reduction ON/OFF
• Flash range: Normal: 2.3 to 17.1 feet/0.7 to 5.2 meters (wide), 2.3 to 13.1 feet/0.7 to 4.0 meters (telephoto); macro: 1.0 feet to 2.3 feet/0.3 to 0.7 meters (when sensitivity is set to ISO 100 equivalent)
• Recycling time: Approximately 10 seconds or less (battery voltage=7.4V)
• Flash exposure compensation: +/- 2 stops in 1/3-stop increments
• Shooting modes: Auto; creative zone: P, Av, Tv, M, C; image zone: Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Special Scene (Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Indoor, Night Snapshot), Stitch Assist, Movie, My Colors
• Photo effects: Off, Vivid, Neutral, Low Sharpening, Sepia, Black and White, Custom
• Self-timer: Activates shutter after an approximately 2 second or 10 second delay, or custom
• Wireless control: Not available
• Continuous shooting: High-speed: approximately 2.4 shots/seconds; normal: approximately 1.5 shots/second (Large/Fine mode)
• Storage media: SD memory card
• File format: Design rule for camera file system, DPOF Version 1.1 (Digital Print Order Format)
• Image recording format: Normal, Fine, SuperFine
• JPEG compression mode: Still image: Exif 2.2 (JPEG); movie: AVI (Image data: Motion JPEG;Audio data: WAVE (Stereo))
• Number of recording pixels: Still image: 2,592 x 1,944 (Large), 2,048 x 1,536 (Medium 1), 1,600 x 1,200 (Medium 2), 640 x 480 (Small); movie: 640 x 480 (VGA Fine/VGA), 320 x 240 (QVGA)
• Playback modes file: Single, Index (9 thumbnail images), Slide show, Magnification (approximately 2 to 10x), Jump, Movie
• Erase modes: Still image: single image, all images; movie: part of movie, all of movie
• Computer interface: USB 2.0 Hi-Speed (mini-B PTP)
• Video out: NTSC, PAL
• Audio out: Stereo
• Other: SD memory card slot; direct connection to Canon CP Printers and PIXMA photo printers via camera's USB cable (no computer required) or PictBridge-compatible printers
• Power source: Four AA-size alkaline battery; four AA-size NiMH battery; compact power adapter CA-PS700
• Shooting capacity: Still image: approximately 130 shots with AA-size alkaline battery, approximately 550 shots with AA-size NiMH battery; movie: approximately 210 minutes (AA-size Alkaline battery), approximately 300 minutes (AA-size NiMH battery)
• Playback time: Approximately 800 minutes (AA-size Alkaline batteries), approximately 900 minutes (AA-size NiMH batteries)
• Language display: 21 display languages: English, German, French, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, simplified/traditional Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish
• Operating temperature: 32 to 104 degrees F/0 to 40 degrees C
• Operating humidity: 10 to 90%
• Dimensions (W x H x D): 4.45 x 3.07 x 2.97 inches/113.0 x 78.0 x 75.5mm (excluding protrusions)
• Weight: Approximately 14.3 ounces/405 grams (camera body only)
• What's in the box: PowerShot S2 IS body, neck strap NS-DC3, AA-size Alkaline batteries (x4), stereo video cable STV-250N, interface cable IFC-400PCU, SD memory card SDC-16MB, digital camera solution CD-ROM, lens cap