Canon PowerShot S3 IS is a super zoom camera that combines a combat design with effective functionality. This model succeeds the popular S2 IS. Canon PowerShot S3 IS is a 6-megapixel camera which though it has a12x optical zoom yet features a sensitivity range up to ISO 800. In fact this cameras optical zoom combines with digital zoom to deliver 48x magnification for recording both stills and video.

The picture quality naturally is quite superb and the model also allows for a high framing option. Canon PowerShot S3 IS has optional Wide and Tele converter lenses which extend the focal length from wide 27mm to super-tele 648mm. this model with an impressive 24x optical zoom and also a Super Macro mode as well as 0cm shooting distance and optional Close-Up lens 500D (58mm) allows you to click photographs where you will not miss even a single detail.

The best part about the model is probably the fact that it is armed with around 6.0 million camera effective pixel which has 1/2.5-inch Charge Coupled Device (CCD). This fact coupled with DIGIC II technology offered for higher resolution and high-speed processing. At the same time the startup time and response time were shortened. Canon PowerShot S3 IS has incorporated an ultra low dispersion lens in the lens element thus reducing the chromatic aberration. With an image stabilizer that helps to reduce the effects of camera shake while shooting and the zoom lens’s super-smooth, super-fast ultra sonic motor (USM) providing all the zooming speed that you need, this is surely a model that makes photography a precise art.

The image quality at full 30 frames per second is exceptional. What further is a plus point about the camera is that it can shoot movies even in the still image shooting modes even at 60 frames per second. In this model a digital zoom and manual focus are available. To sum up this model is one of the latest technologies from the house of canon that takes photography to another and a much elevated plane.