Cons:
- Joystick used to navigate menu items makes it very difficult to "click"/select items especially if in a hurry. Gets worse with age.
- Sliding door is on/off switch, means camera is often accidentally switched off when framing shot as fingers press on loose door/off switch. Gets worse with age.
- Dust gets on lens easily, under sliding door.
- Supplied memory card (16mb) inadequate, recommend 256mb+.
- LCD viewfinder difficult to see in direct sunlight, makes it very difficult to use manual features where small numbers/icons need to be read.
- Often a long delay on shutter action, means you miss the framed shot.
- Battery life only about 100 shots, seems to get worse with age. Need two batteries.
- Bulky & heavy body, compared to many other compact digital cameras.
- No protective case supplied with camera.
- Software to get images from camera to computer a large-long install, I cant find a way to do it without installing all the software on the CD.
- Impressive number settings can be controlled manually but accessing and changing them via menus and buttons is slow compared to an SLR.

Pros:
- Good quality photos.
- Lots of settings can be controlled manually, compared to other compact digital cameras I've used.
- Very good software on the camera, especially for navigating and viewing images.
- Batteries charge very quickly

Great camera--small yet packed with performance (Rating: 5.00)
Review : I have been playing around with my Powershot S30 for a couple of weeks now, and I must say I am very impressed. This is my first digital camera. 35mm photography has been a hobby of mine for over 10 years now, so I wanted to get a digicam that wouldn't let me down. And the S30 hasn't. It has almost all the features of my Canon Rebel 2000 (except interchangeable lenses, filters, and a hotshoe), but with a fraction of the size. The pictures are great. I have noticed that indoor flash pics tended to be a little too bright, but that was easily fixed by adjusting the flash exposure compensation down by 1/3 or 2/3. The camera takes pictures quickly (not as fast as my SLR, but that's to be expected) and the pics are of high quality. The battery life is relatively short, but a fully charged battery was more than enough to get me through over 100 shots, using the LCD screen for all of them, the flash for most, and spending a fair bit of time reviewing the photos. I *love* the fact that the camera records all the settings you used along with the shot.
The camera is small and rugged, so it can easily be taken everywhere. Even the battery charger is fairly small. I definitely recommend getting a 256MB card (check out newegg.com) and a USB reader. At highest resolution and least compression, I can fit 157 pics on the 256MB card. The only thing I've used the 16MB card that comes with the camera for was to transfer some pics to it so a friend who wanted "doubles" could go to Ritz camera and print them out for herself. Definitely recommend!!!!!!!

Canon S30 is most bang for buck and it fits in your pocket ! (Rating: 5.00)
Review : I used an olympus c3040 prior to buying this camera and have thi camera for 4 months now. I like this camera's small size for the same MP/zoom range as the c3040. The small size makes it a little shakier, but you will get used to it.

It takes very good quality pictures in daylight and fluoroscent lighting and has multiple white balance modes. You can also set your own white balance, which some people may find useful. I find the color and hue saturation with the factory set white balance great and much better than my previous 3MP camera.

Night/Low light pics are not as good if you use the auto mode. Remember to set the setting to P (program) mode for night shots. Manual modes are great for low light situations and this camera works like any other non-digital (SLR-35 mm Film) camera.

The RAW format images are useful to make even larger sized prints using appropriate software.

I think the software bundled with the camera ... when used on windows 98. All they needed to do was to have windows 98 recognize it as another drive, but they made it twain based instead and boy that really ... for me. I have to go thru hoops to download pics to my windows 98 machine. However if you have XP, it is a breeze to use the camera and once you install the drivers it works like any other camera.

I recommend reading the manual at least 3 times before using the advanced functions. The manual is somewhat technical but you need to read it!

There is an available attachment for underwater pics, which is also great if you just want to use it in the summer on a beach or to take underwater pictures. As far as I know no other digital camera offers this yet.

I also like the Photostitch option that allows you to take multiple pictures and then weave them together to get a large sized (panoramic) picture. You can combine multiple pictures to get a huge poster (even 40x40 inches) for example by using this function.

It comes with a 16MB CF card which is rather small (holds 16-24 pics in high resolution and only 6-8 pics in RAW format). Now that 128/256/512 MB CF cards are available you may want to pick one up. However then you will also need an extended battery or an AC power pack as you will run out of power before you use the entire CF card.

If you have no computer, this blighter can even print directly to a compatible printer, which is cool if you are travelling.

I also would have really liked canon to include a small leather case with this, but then one can't ask for all!

I still feel I have not found out all this camera can do even at 4 months and there are many features that I have not tried yet.

The multipurpose button is sturdy, but some what difficult to use. Also they could have combined to zoom function to the same button (like in many videocams) for better funtionality while shooting. However I got used to the small buttons now and am really not finding it that much of a problem.

Give Me A Break (Rating: 2.00)
Review : I have had this camera for over a year now. The camera is great until now. I simply plugged the camera into the USB port in order to download my pictures and all the sudden my LCD DISPLAY turned White. I have tried troubleshooting and nothing is expalined about this mess. I talked to Canon and the only option they left me was to ship it in and get it repaired...for $200.00 What a joke!

Excellent Camera (Rating: 5.00)
Review : I have owned this camera for over a year now and taken probably 3000+ pics. I have learnt a lot in this one year about digital cameras in general and this camera in particular. The picture quality is simply superb in most conditions. The one problem of dull pics indoors that the previous reviewer mentioned is definitely something I noticed too. One thing worth trying is to not use the flash and instead use more light indoors if possible. The problem occurs because the flash range is small and it will illuminate only nearby objects. All in all, a fantastic product. I would buy it again if I had to.