Canon pocket camera help

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"Ron&Joyce" <joyce1@pe.net> wrote in message
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>I just found out my wife's canon s400 is broke.To me not worth going thru
> the hassles to get it fixed.
> So now I want to get her a new one for Christmas. What of the following is
> the best . Canon A85........Canon s410..........Canon s500
> I have two lithium-ion batteries for the s400 that should work with the
> s410 and s500. I know the A85 uses AA batteries. And that is ok also.
> But then again I am not married to Canon What I am looking is a camera
> that
> takes good skin tone pictures and has as much zoom a possible. 35 thru 100
> +
> would be fine. Would like optical zoom if possible. Wife shoots people
> pictures most of the time .( Oh would need some sort of built in flash )
> And
> I need this in the shirt pocket size .
>
> Thanks for your help
>
Shirt pocket size and AA batteries don't mix. I'm not familiar with the
smaller canons, but have an A40 and A95. You can do worse than stay with
canon, but any of the well known brands are going to be good, so select
based on features, size and price. I suspect your wife doesn't want a lot of
fancy features. The A95 has a scene mode (SCN) that seems to be good
compromise between full automatic and manual overrides. Not sure who else
does similar, but Kodak selling point is ease of use, something they've
based their reputation on since day one
Dave Cohen

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"Dave Cohen" <dave@example.net> wrote:

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>Shirt pocket size and AA batteries don't mix. I'm not familiar with the
>smaller canons, but have an A40 and A95.
-snip-

The A60 through A75 use 4 AA's. I would consider them shirt-pocket
sized. [and decent point & shoot cameras] The A75 is retailing
for about $200.


Jim

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"Ron&Joyce" <joyce1@pe.net> wrote in message
news:10sbn0n8l1ec60a@corp.supernews.com...
>I just found out my wife's canon s400 is broke.To me not worth going thru
> the hassles to get it fixed.
> So now I want to get her a new one for Christmas. What of the following is
> the best . Canon A85........Canon s410..........Canon s500
> I have two lithium-ion batteries for the s400 that should work with the
> s410 and s500. I know the A85 uses AA batteries. And that is ok also.
> But then again I am not married to Canon What I am looking is a camera
> that
> takes good skin tone pictures and has as much zoom a possible. 35 thru 100
> +
> would be fine. Would like optical zoom if possible. Wife shoots people
> pictures most of the time .( Oh would need some sort of built in flash )
> And
> I need this in the shirt pocket size .

Heh--"shirt pocket size" means different things to different people,
evidently. One replying poster said "Shirt pocket size and AA batteries
don't mix," and the next one said "The A60 through A75 use 4 AA's. I would
consider them shirt-pocket sized."

Intending no offense to the second poster, I have never seen any four-AA
camera that I would consider shirt-pocket size. I have seen some that I
COULD carry in a shirt pocket but would never want to.

The Minolta X20 and X31 use two AAs and are definitely shirt-pocket size,
but there are better shirt-pocket-sized cameras. I would suggest looking at
the Minolta Xg (or the older Xt if there are any still available) and the
Pentax S4i or S5i. These all use lithium-ion batteries which are somewhat
expensive if you buy them in the camera makers' brand, but there are cheap
replacement batteries on eBay which have worked perfectly for me. I have an
Xg, an Xt and an S4i and love them all. All have 3x optical zooms, 37-111mm
(equivalent) in the Xg and Xt, 35-105mm in the S4i. All are great for people
pictures, all have flash though (like ultracompacts generally) not very
powerful flash; they're fine if you're reasonably close to the subject. The
Xg/Xt are 3.2 megapixels and the S4i is 4 megapixels, if that matters to
you. (It shouldn't unless you intend making really large prints. Up to 8x10
either 3.2 or 4 MP is fine.) The S4i is a really amazing little jewel, just
loaded with fascinating features--which, however, might be of no interest
whatever to your wife.

N.