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A great versitile camera...
(Chicago Astronomer Joe - 12/16/06)I needed to upgrade from my Kodak DX3215, which was quite limiting, but trusty. After much researching, I finally came upon the Powershot S3. It had all I wanted in a digital...along with a much desired movie feature.
I got a good deal from OfficeMax for $369.00. They threw in a 512 mb SD card and option to purchase a $100.00 photo printer for $30.00
I have had it a week now, and quite pleased with it. It's a dream to use and very versatile. Everything is cool, except one thing.
I'm using it for astrophotography, and finding it perhaps falling a little short. In my 35mm SLR film days, I was taking very good images of stars, nebulas etc... Here I am finding that the S3 does not focus down to pin points when zoomed in all the way on a star. It just...stops a little short. It exposes the stars as a tiny blob, instead of a point.
Perhaps it's just my camera, I'm still waiting for individuals to chime in on this.
Examples of my astrophotography can be found at the Chicago Astronomer here:
http://astronomer.proboards23.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=ps3&thread=1166148281&page=1
Overall, I highly recommend this digital camera.
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