Crisp pictures, zoom, no major problems w/ film winding or batteries. I love the counter and the auto rewind features.

The metal part of the door..if it gets bent the film will not wind properly. I made the mistake of loaning it to a friend and they bent it while loading. BE CAREFUL of this. I also sometimes have trouble with the view finder and finding it quickly.

I love this point & shoot camera. It is very easy to use and I always get compliments on pictures. The zoom is great to use too and hardly ever have bad shots.

Great pictures

Electro mechanically disfunctional.

This camera takes great crisp pictures. But is a lemon. The battery would die about every month or so. Spent a fortune on batteries. The camera would advance one and a half frames instead of frame and ruin every roll of film. Now the camera advances half way through the roll on auto load. A piece of junk.

Customer Service

No help. $300 big ones wasted.

Sharp and fast lense. Very good flash. Good controls and features. Excellent exposure system

Not 28 mm wide lense

In the past 4 years I have tried most of the olympus, Canon, Minolta zoom PS cameras, nothing comes close to this one especially for indoor and night photography. The lense is truly razor sharp at both ends, excellent flash, and very useful features. It is a little heavier than average PS, by about 2 oz, but who cares when it performs better than heavy SLRs. It is too bad Canon is dicontinuing this one.

Customer Service

Have not needed

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Canon sure shot 85, 115, classic 120 Olympus Epic, 115 QD, 170, IS-20 DLX minolta freedom super EX, Zoom 75, 115, 145 ex Yashica T4

Fast lens. Long lens. Power zoom. Flexible exposure control. 4-second max exposure (in night mode) to 1/2000. Outstanding value. Tripod thread. Timer.

I would like to be able to turn off the flash much easier than the gymnastics involved in opening the flap door and repeatedly hitting a miniature button. The LCD is not lit, so I need 3 hands to hld a flashlight, hold open the door, and tap the miniature button. Aggravating. Still get red-eye in photos. So its large; it does what I want it to do. Easy to block light with right index finger. would like ''OFF'' position color-coded on dial.

Could not beat it for focal length (I hate short lenses), aperture, Best Shot Dial flexibility. The first one I bought, without date/caption, was in for repairs so often that Canon replaced it with a date/caption model. The first onegobbled batteries, but the date/caption gives excellent battery life. Excellent auto focus (my 1st camera with this feature.

Customer Service

After too many returns to Canon, they did replace the camera. Fortunately, I lived near the repair center near Bloomingdale IL.

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None, but shopped many models. Most were slower aperature, shorter focal length, slower lens, not as flexible.

Great lens. Hardly ever suffered a blurry picture. Adaptable to various lighting conditions, so very handy for travel.

Not sturdy enough. Film advancement broke after 6 months & took 3 months to fix. Red-eye reduction almost never worked. Annoying that flash options are hidden away behind a little panel on the back.

Handy & verstaile, so a great traveling camera. I just lost mine & I hear the new Classic 120 has a 'personal 'mode that allows you to save favorite settings, so I'm seriously considering that as a replacement. My only hesitation is due to the long repair wait I've experienced with Canon.

Customer Service

See above about the 3 month wait for a simple repair.

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1st P&S. Stood by my Pentax K1000 for years.

Took very nice sharp
pictures hand held
with Provia 100F film
with difficult end of
day lighting at about 100mm of zoom. Most other portable zooms would have failed under these conditions.

The need for 800 speed film if you ever extend the zoom out to 135mm.
Choose a larger camera
with a faster zoom if you are to get pictures of satisfactory quality.
This camera is better than other compact cameras I have used.

Very convenient and accurate exposure. Razor sharp pictures especially when supported by a monopod to reduce camera shake. Photos that were
taken were indistinguable from those taken with my N70. Portable where a SLR cannot go. Great for actions shots. I plan to take it for action
shots at the anti world bank rally in DC - I expect pictures to be of high quality. Plan on using higher speed film always - 400 speed minimum.

Customer Service

Not needed yet. I had a question about the warranty.
Found it hard to get through to a live person when calling the automated system - felt that nobody was home to take the call. As usual the computerized answering machine was completely retarded. Completely bad for the corportate image department.

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Olympus XA, Pentax Auto 110

Huge zoom range, fast crisp lens (for a P&S), Took it for a vacation in FL and came back with some Fantastic shots. I was pleasantly surprised.

Kinda big and box compared to new P&S, Is expensive at around $300 (I bought it when it first came out), but after the first couple of roles I didn't regret it. Some commonly used buttons hidden under a little door, does not remember settings if you turn it off. Smallish viewfinder.

This is a great zoom P&S and I would Highly reccommend it to anyone!

Customer Service

Never used, never had problems with the camera even after being exposed on a sandy ocean beach.

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none

VERY SHARP , COLOR TRUE PHOTOS

aFTER SHOOTING THE FIRST ROLL AND REWINDING THE FILM, THE REWIND MOTOR WORKED BUT THE FILM DID NOT REWIND

i WOULD NOT RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE WHO ENJOYS TAKING PHOTOS ON TRIPS OR ON FAMILY GATHERING. iT SHOULD NOT BREAK AFTER ONE ROLL OF FILM IS SHOT

Customer Service

bROUGHT IT TO A
CANON APPROVED REPAIR SHOP SINCE THE CAMERA IS UNDER WARRANTY AND I HAVE TOLD THAT i WILL HAVE TO WAIT AT LEAST 3 WEEKS FOR IT, PROBABLY MORE. i COULD NOT GET A DEFINITE ANSWER

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Z 115 AND OTHER SURE SHOTS

Fast lense, f:3.6-8.9, and clear photographs. I llike the fast shutter speeds and the tracking option with the action mode! Never fails.

Clunky. The lense is fast (3.6-8.9) but sticks out and thus the camera is too large for compact and does weigh 12 ounces. The flash will easily brake or bend if even dropped on carpetted floor from one foot high...I know, it happened and I'm pissed.

Z135 is pricey but best optics and neat features, especially the easy handling and silent auto function (great at weddings!) HOWEVER, Anyone know how good the specs are for the new Sure Shot Classic 120? I need to know...The camera is considerably smaller, better location of the zoom toggle, away from the picture button, but it has a slower lense, and 15 mm less (not significant considering photos taken at 135 mm in my experience have been poor with every P&S. e-mail me a mpopowitz@yahoo.com....Thanks.

Customer Service

never used.

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looked atall others but never tried.

Best lens of all the zooming point and shoots. Many uncommon P&S features, such as an SLR speed, up to 1/1200 shutter, and tracking autofocus. Excellent Canon build quality. Sharp looking.

Lens, despite being best in class, is too slow for even daylight zoom work without flash. Ergonomics are puzzling, w exposure compensation and flash controls hidden behind a panel. Big and heavy. Battery hog. Pricy. Old design (though still better than most newer ones.)

Worst of all worlds. Too heavy and bulky to be readily portable and available for spontaneous shooting, while the virtually blind lens cannot use even natural sunlight efficiently. Weighs about as much as the Rebel 2000 does, and has only a small fraction of an SLR's creative potential. For the casual snapshooter, this camera weighs and costs more than it should. Also, figuring out which features are activated in which mode means that you'll be looking in the manual as often as you would when using a "more complex" SLR. If I was going on a trip, I'd want the capability of an SLR, and for casual snapshots, I want the portability of a T4 or Epic Stylus. I don't know who the user base for this type of camera is; dolts who can't figure out how to turn a dial to the green box on a SLR? Not to fault Canon, as this camera is the best of the P&S zooms, but the category is inherently flawed in the common sense arena, and this camera simply embodies many of the genre's problems (though much less so the Pentax IQZoom 200, the true Titanic of Point and Shoot designs...)

Customer Service

no problems.

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Other P&S zooms including Yashicas, Pentax, and Olympus. R2K SLR, pocket cameras