Canon PowerShot S20 Canon Powershot S20 Review, Phil Askey, January 2000

Officially Casio beat Canon to the 3.34 megapixel announcement(well at least to the general public anyway), howeve rumours of the S20had been popping up in various cyber-spaces for a couple of months now.Just last week Canon announcedthe S20, a 3.34 megapixel (3.14 megapixels effective - 2048 x 1536)version of its successful, recent, but popular S10. Features wise theS20 is identical to the S10, body size, operation, menus and softwareare all the same. The case is champagne rather than silver and the onlyother difference is the "3.3" and "S20" on the front.Just makes me wonder how happy recent purchasers of the S10 are...The camera for this review is an "MT sample"(which basically means pre-release), the original unit supplied was replacedby an MT2 sample which though still pre-release is deemed very close tofinal production (thus reviewable).Because the S20 is so similar to the S10 Ive re-usedsome of my S10 review (mostly in operation and handling) for those readerswho havent read it or just come for the S20 review. All camera shots,timings, sampels and comparisons are new.

From what Ive seen so far the newsis good, the S20 takes the solid foundation of the S10 and adds anamazingly detailed CCD, better white balance, better colour balanceand overall sharper images.. Theres a little more noise visible andbecause of the extra pixels were starting to see evidence of chromaticabberations but other than that the S20 is an amazing little camerawhich produces the goods...

Photographs ofthe camera were taken with Nikon Coolpix 950 and Nikon D1, imageswhich can be viewed at a larger size have a small magnifying glassicon in the bottom right corner of the image, clicking on the imagewill display a larger (normally 800 x 600 or smaller if cropped)image in a new window.To navigate the review simply use the next / previous page buttons, to jump to a particular section either pick the section from the drop down or select it from the navigation bar at the top.

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