Canon PowerShot S300 Canon Digital IXUS 300 (AKA. S300 ELPH) ReviewPhil Askey, March 2001

Review based on a production Digital IXUS 300 First off, names, the Digital IXUS 300 is this cameras European (and SE Asia) name, it is known as the PowerShot S300 Digital ELPH in the US and the IXY Digital 300 in Japan, the cameras are identical apart from the name. The Digital IXUS 300 is a progression from last years Digital IXUS, with the same 2 megapixel sensor the new Digital IXUS 300 now features a 3x zoom lens and a moderate number of improvements: Improvements in the Digital IXUS 300 compared to Digital IXUS

	Digital IXUS 300 (S300 ELPH)	Digital IXUS (S100 ELPH)
Lens	3 x optical zoom, 35 - 105 mm equiv.(F2.7 - F4.7)	2 x optical zoom, 35 - 70 mm equiv.(F2.8 - F4.0)
Focus range	Normal: 76 cm - InfinityMacro: 16 cm - 76 cm	Normal: 57 cm - InfinityMacro: 10 cm - 57 cm
Resolutions	1600 x 12001024 x 768640 x 480	1600 x 1200640 x 480
JPEG modes	Super-FineFineStandard	Super-FineFine
Design	New designed case, new shutter release button, improved exposure dial, new power button, new zoom controller
Volume	179 cm3	133 cm3
Weight (inc. batt)	275 g (9.7 oz)	210 g (7.4 oz)
Digital Zoom	Smooth up to 2.5x	Either 2x or 4x
Colour filter	GRGB	CYGM
Movie	160 x 120, 320 x 240, 640 x 480(with audio)	None
Direct Print	Yes	No

Photographs of the camerawere taken with a Canon EOS-D30, images which can be viewed at alarger size have a small magnifying glass icon in the bottom rightcorner of the image, clicking on the image will display a larger(normally 960 x 720 or smaller if cropped) image in a new window.To navigate the review simplyuse the next / previous page buttons, to jump to a particular sectioneither pick the section from the drop down or select it from thenavigation bar at the top.DPReview calibrate theirmonitors using Adobe Gamma at the (fairly well accepted) PC normalgamma 2.2, this means that on our monitors we can make out the differencebetween all of the (computer generated) grayscale blocks below.We recommend to make the most of this review you should be ableto see the difference (at least) between X,Y and Z and ideally A,Band C.

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