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Rick Rizner
Designed to resemble a scaled-down SLR camera, the Canon PowerShot S1 IS brings together a lot of advanced features-- including the ability to captures video at up to 640-by-480 pixels and 30 frames-per-second with 22-KHz 16-bit sound--for its $499 price tag. We could argue that 3.2 megapixels is not enough for a camera with full manual settings, a fold-out LCD, and the ability to accept accessory telephoto and wide-angle lenses. But the modest resolution is one compromise that helps keep the price of a camera with an image stabilized 10X zoom lens under $500.
The S1 IS has the traditional shape of an advanced model, with a solid hand-grip on the right side and the lens center-left. Like all long-zoom point-and-shoot digitals, the S1 IS comes with a small...