Canon S5! IS
ModelAnnouncedS109-Feb-2004S222-Apr-2005S321-Feb-2006S507-May-2007I've mentioned that I'm not happy with my current digital camera (Canon S1 IS), and I had decided to get a Canon S3 IS, the newest model in the series. Then I noticed the release dates for the series, and decided to wait a few weeks to see whether the S4 would appear and either be more appealing or cause the S3's price to drop. I've been doing a Google search every day or two, and now that it's May I'd just about given up on it, but this morning there were surprising results: Canon just announced the S5. They skipped the S4.
I haven't had time to read much about it yet. They've added a hot shoe for an external flash, like a grown-up camera. It's still 12x optical zoom, but the resolution is up from 6 megapixels to 8MP, the display screen is larger, and video clips can be 4GB instead of just 1GB. (The old limit made some of the higher-resolution videos pretty short.) Continuous frame rate is down. Model to model, the camera has been getting slightly larger and heavier.
Price is listed at $500. ($300 is a good price on the S3.) Deliveries aren't expected until July. There's no reviews out yet. Assuming there's incremental improvements over the S3, my decision will probably be based on what the real street price turns out to be. (Um, right. You know I want the S5.)