Cameras & Camcorders

[luvab13]

what is the best canon digital camera at best buy?

[Rrrrrrr]

What exactly are you looking for? One could say a Canon 1d series but I dont know if you want to spend $6000 just for a camera body. Point and shoot, DSLR, ?

[luvab13]

im thinking of the canon power shot A3300, S95, or ELPH 100HS

[Rrrrrrr]

Honestly Canon's point and shoots are top notch (and I shoot Nikon's for a living). IMO I dont think you could go wrong with any one of the three you listed.

[luvab13]

oh ok thank you.

[frank802]

If it were me I'd definetly go for Kodak over Canon. Kodak's screens are larger and the camera is easier to understand . The picture quality of Kodak is amazing, and Kodak cameras are generally less expensive.

[Entropy]

Kodak's products tend to be cheap dumbed-down consumer-grade crud.

As far as the units the original poster mentioned - the PowerShot S95 is canon's "second-to-the-top" point-and-shoot.  It has the imaging sensor from their flagship G12 in a smaller form factor (but with a few less features.)

There's also an S100 on their site now (looks like it's coming soon), but that's pushing the pixel count up to 12 megapixels, which is a bit too much for a point-and-shoot.  (Canon actually DROPPED pixel count from the G10 to G11 - or maybe it was from G9 to G10, in response to complaints about poor dynamic range and noise performance.)  I'd be wary of it until a full review comes out on DPreview.

Pixel count isn't everything - Stuffing lots of pixels into a small sensor makes each pixel physically smaller, which means it captures less light.  This makes it perform worse in low-light situations.  It's why even an old 6 megapixel SLR can blow many 14 megapixel point-and-shoots out of the water in terms of image quality.

The S95 and G12 have some of the physically largest sensors in the point-and-shoot market, with lower pixel counts than average for a P&S - it's why professionals like Dave Hobby of Strobist go to the G-series when they need a camera and their SLR is too big.