Canon PowerShot S5 IS - Expert Reviews

Review summary: An articulable LCD, great image stabilization, and top-quality photos add up to a great megazoom.

Review summary: An articulable LCD, great image stabilization, and top-quality photos add up to a great megazoom.

Pros: Sturdy and fully adjustable LCD screen, Top-notch image stabilization

Cons: Poor manual focus, No RAW-format support

Verdict: Despite a handy function menu for the most commonly used options, the S5 IS has an overabundance of hey-let's-just-throw-it-in features that can clog menus (a wolf-howl sound effect for the self-timer? Really?). This feels indicative of the uneasy balance

Review summary: Canon's PowerShot S5 IS remains one of the best super-zoom digital cameras on the market. It sports a decent 12x range with optical stabilisation, a useful flip-out and twist screen, a decent degree of manual control and impressively, a flash hotshoe. Som

Pros: 12x optical zoom with IS., Fully articulated 2.5in screen., Manual control and flash hotshoe., Optical zoom and stereo sound in movies.,

Cons: Noise visible throughout ISO range., Fringing on high contrast subjects., Widest-angle 'only' 36mm., No RAW recording facility.

Verdict: The PowerShot S5 IS is certainly a powerful super-zoom camera with some neat features. The 12x range gives you decent coverage, the stabilisation is effective, the flip-out screen allows for unusual angles, the movie options are some of the best around on

Review summary: The sturdily built Canon PowerShot S5 IS is what is commonly known as a 'bridge' camera - so called because it forms a bridge between a point-and-shoot compact and a digital SLR.

Verdict: With a little care and attention, the Canon PowerShot S5 IS delivers the goods. It has a 12x zoom, a flip and twist screen, and is fast, intuitive, light and compact. Unfortunately, you get image noise on shots taken above ISO400, plus occasional pixel fr