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Canon PowerShot S80 User Reviews

Digital camera - 8.0 Mpix - optical zoom: 3.6 x - supported memory: MMC, SD More product details

Canon PowerShot S80
alaSCORE 88

585 reviews

November, 2009

82 / 100

67 Experts

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80 / 100

518 Users

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alaTest collected and analyzed 111 user reviews of the Canon PowerShot S80 from cnet.com. The average user rating from cnet.com is 71 out of 100.

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"Pretty Good Picture and E18"

With some reservations, most notably concerni...  Great photo quality funky battery door opens too easily

"Best Upgrade for the money"

Having my own photography business for severa...  8 MP, features, user interface Time to shoot could be quicker

"Images often blurry"

I bought the Canon Powershot S80 in January 2...  Compact ; good video Soft images ; bad images in low light ; lens cover

"A bit expensive but has nice features"

I purchased this camera in May 2005 and had u...  Many shooting preset modes, nice control set, reasonable movie quality, long lasting battery, small...

Average Rating

71

US

alaTest collected and analyzed 11 user reviews of the Canon PowerShot S80 from ciao.com. The average user rating from ciao.com is 89 out of 100.

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Canon Powershot S80 Digital Camera

I have 5 years, an Olympus camera, slowly, but great images. I upgrade to this b / c of the underwater world, and my husband and I wanted to dive and ...

Canon Powershot S80 Digital Camera

I had this phone for a little over a month; they are 3 times and were impressed. Then one day, at which the target of a grinding noise, not to extend,...

S80it

Canon A580 IS IS is a 10 million-pixel imaging have the capacity, and 4 optical zoom with Image Stabilizer lens for portable digital cameras, compact ...

Canon PowerShot S80

Advantages: the second generation of processor speed power quickly. Stability. Easy to carry pocket machine. The entire manual fun, very practical wid...

Average Rating

89

US

alaTest collected and analyzed 8 user reviews of the Canon PowerShot S80 from digitaltrends.com. The average user rating from digitaltrends.com is 60 out of 100.

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E18 error on Canon PowerShot S80

Geoff Heathcote ~ Thank you for telling what you did to make your camera start working again, even if you're not sure why it helped. I suddenly, for n...

Fix for E18 error

If you have an E18 error, try this: hit the camera lens mount fairly hard into the palm of your hand, then press the lens mount hard and evenly back ...

Owned two months lens froze E18

I read the other review. I too, have had trouble with lens freezing with an E18. No abuse here! We'll see what Canon does to repair-at no cost, or I r...

Owned two months lens froze E18

I read the other review. I too, have had trouble with lens freezing with an E18. No abuse here! We'll see what Canon does to repair-at no cost, or I r...

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alaTest collected and analyzed 68 user reviews of the Canon PowerShot S80 from dpreview.com. The average user rating from dpreview.com is 87 out of 100.

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Canon PowerShot S80

Yes, the battery cover opens too easily. And yes... the material of the camera is too bad... but you never guess, what problems my camera did survived...

Canon PowerShot S80

Yes, the battery cover opens too easily. And yes... the material of the camera is too bad... but you never guess, what problems my camera did survived...

Canon PowerShot S80

The wide angle lens is awesome in your pocket! I had to send mine back due to the lens door getting stuck but canon fixed it for free no problem. Th...

Canon PowerShot S80

ONCE I WROTE THIS.. BECAUSE I WAS A HAPPY NEW OWNER... Overall I've been thrilled with this camera, as a novice I have enjoyed learning about it. Gre...

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alaTest collected and analyzed 19 user reviews of the Canon PowerShot S80 from epinions.com. The average user rating from epinions.com is 78 out of 100.

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Great camera

The first thing you will notice on the camera is that this camera has many features. As expected, you have the ability to set shutter speed, f stop, f...

Excellent camera, multitude of features

Excellent lens, no shutter lag, SD memory, rechargeable battery, overall design Low optical zoom but in such a compact camera it would be nearly impos...

Too Sensitive

nice compact size, auto lens closing, 8 MP pictures to bright

After 8 months - Still the best out there !!!

Picture detail, ease of use, tons of manual options Bulky, LCD not the best, Low light/indoor not great.

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alaTest collected and analyzed 1 user reviews of the Canon PowerShot S80 from photographyreview.com. The average user rating from photographyreview.com is 80 out of 100.

Average Rating

80

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alaTest collected and analyzed 30 user reviews of the Canon PowerShot S80 from pricegrabber.com. The average user rating from pricegrabber.com is 84 out of 100.

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Stay away from Canon

STAY AWAY FROM CANON POWERSHOT PRODUCTS - I warn anyone against considering a purchase of any Canon Camera. size reliability - lens locks and Canon w...

Stay away from Canon

STAY AWAY FROM CANON POWERSHOT PRODUCTS - I warn anyone against considering a purchase of any Canon Camera. I purchased a Powershot S80 camera for my ...

PowerShot S80

This is the third Canon digital camera we've owned (the other two, an EOS Digital Rebel and a PowerShot S100 are still around), and confirms why we lo...

CanonS80 - good features, bad barrel effect

(Edited March 02nd by arehaas) The camera has excellent controls and menu system. Intuitive controls, many modes including the manual mode, fast pict...

US

alaTest collected and analyzed 99 user reviews of the Canon PowerShot S80 from amazon.com. The average user rating from amazon.com is 81 out of 100.

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Great pictures.... Costly repair prices!!!

Great pictures.... Costly repair prices!!! I actually loved my S80. The pictures I took of my children were beautiful and the camera is very easy to u...

Its ok

Its ok This camera compromises on a lot to fit it all in. Thus it does not do any one thing super well. But it does do many things.
The image qu...

Great Camera!

Great Camera! I bought this camera in part because it had the widest angle (28) in a still compact camera size. I only use the automatic functions, n...

Great camera - but fragile

Great camera - but fragile I loved this camera. I really did. It took beautiful pictures and its the closest compact camera I've ever had to a DSLR. B...

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alaTest collected and analyzed 8 user reviews of the Canon PowerShot S80 from cnet.com.au. The average user rating from cnet.com.au is 73 out of 100.

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Canon PowerShot S80

Simple camera with simple functions. Good for newbies. Battery timing is good. Mini, stylish body case. No any raw supported. And also slow than other...

Canon PowerShot S80

extreme clear pictures, easy to do the manual settings extreme clear pictures, easy to do the manual settings only 3.6X optical zoom isn't enough for...

Canon PowerShot S80

Simple camera with simple functions. Good for newbies. Battery timing is good. Mini, stylish body case. No any raw supported. And also slow than other...

Canon PowerShot S80

extreme clear pictures, easy to do the manual settings extreme clear pictures, easy to do the manual settings only 3.6X optical zoom isn't enough for...

Average Rating

73

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alaTest collected and analyzed 5 user reviews of the Canon PowerShot S80 from asia.cnet.com. The average user rating from asia.cnet.com is 84 out of 100.

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high quality

very high grade technology cam i ever used &i will always use speed&quality&profession very high grade technology cam i ever used &i will always use

for those amateur that want quality pics, or some professional that want a compact camera

forget my, past opinion, this camera is really amazing.comparing to my old samsung V4, this one is about the same size but much mo quality and speed ...

no wide aspect format

my first impression was that it is too big and builky but after revewing the functions, speed and picture quality, my perception changed to see it as ...

Good but no Bluetooth

Everything good but no bluetooth. Cannot share photo easily.

Average Rating

84

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