Experiments With Canon Powershot S2 IS

Canon Powershot S2 IS

Monsoon Sky at 7:00 PM

Shutter speed, exposure, aperture and ISO mode manually selected

In simple words, Canon Powershot S2 IS a superb one especially for those who like high end digital cameras. I bought this camera very recently and the photo now you are seeing in the blog is my experiments with the camera on the first day. Those who look for a sleek compact digital camera, Powershot S2 IS will not be the one. It is a little bit heavy and we can nearly achieve the perfection of a SLR camera with this model. The weight of the camera gives better stability while we take hand held telephotos, apart from the Image Stabilization (IS) modules help.

The Jasmine Bud

Everything adjusted manually (Shutter speed, Exposure, Aperture, Focus & ISO Mode)

The special shooting modes of the camera are really great. Sepia, color accent, color swap, custom colors, black & white, foliage, night scene, snow scene, fire works etc helps the photographer to create wonderful pictures. The image stabilization module works very well which allows us to take pictures at complete 12x zoom range or the 48x digital and optical combined zoom range without the picture being shaken. The quality of video is amazing as well as the quality of the recorded sound.

The LCD which can be tilted to any angle like the one in a camcorder is very useful; especially to take photographs from difficult angles. The camera is also powered with an electronic view finder, so that we can turn of the LCD screen and use the view finder to save the battery power, which means a lot in case of out door trips. The camera can be switched to movie mood any time and snaps can be taken while recording a movie.

Powershot S2 IS also supports additional lenses like telephoto lens, wide angle lens and super macro lens that improve the functionality a lot.

Picutres taken using the color accent feature

For better results I suggest using a high speed memory card as well as the canon CBK4-200 rechargeable batteries. The camera supports additional flashes but can be operated only in a slave mode; which means the secondary flash will only fire when the built in flash fires. The camera comes with a built-in AF assist lamp, but cannot be used for night animal photography since the light will be disturbing the animals. It would have been better if they provided an infrared AF assist lamp.

Water drop on the tip of a grass

The super macro mode is used

The camera supports a macro mode using which we can take pictures of objects very close (50 to 10 inches from the lens) and a super macro mode using which we can shoot objects so close as 0 to 10 inches.