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New toy: Canon S3 IS

Writing about web page http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/Digital_Camera/PowerShot/PowerShot_S3_IS/

It’s my birthday in just over a month, but I’ve got my main present early this year :)

As we are off on holiday to visit my parents in South Africa in a few days time, Steph bought me the Canon S3 IS (bargin at £250 from Pixmania) to replace my aging Canon A40. I’ve not had much of a chance to play with it yet, but I’ll have loads of time on holiday. Only problem around the house is that poor Maggie is afraid of it :( I think there must be some high frequency sounds coming from it when the lense extends as she goes all pathetic whenver I turn the camera on (even if she can’t see it happening), poor thing.

The A40 went with me last year to South Africa on safari. It was ok, but I was very jealous of my Dad’s more up to date camera. So with this in mind, I decided it was time for an update. As DP Review puts it:

The PowerShot S3 IS features:

• 12x optical zoom lens with USM and UD lens element
• Optical Image Stabilizer
• 6.0 Megapixel CCD
• Larger size 2.0” Vari-angle LCD
• 30fps VGA movies with stereo sound and Photo in Movie feature
• DIGIC II, iSAPS and Flexizone AF/AE for fast, precise results and 2.3 fps continuous shooting performance
• 20 shooting modes and My Colors photo effects
• High ISO Auto and ISO 800 for low light flexibility
• Widescreen (16:9) recording

Hopefully I can compete for the best photos this time around…at least I can’t blame the tools this time.

: 02 Oct 2006 23:58 |  Tags: Camera Canon Gadgets S3 |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Cubicle protection!

Writing about web page http://www.thinkgeek.com

We will be going through a possible little office cubicle shuffle soon and I overheard people talking about cubicle privacy and it reminded me of these:

Room defender

Lazer Trip Wire

Defend your cubicle!

: 02 Sep 2005 11:41 |  Tags: Gadgets Work |  Comments (4) |  Close comments |  Report a problem