Need help choosing an ultra zoom camera that's good at han..

Hi everyone!

My Canon A70 is sadly broken, so I'm in the market for a new camera. Both my
wife and I were/are very happy with the image quality of the A70, with our
only complaint being redeye. The A70 had a huge redeye problem, that really
bug us both.

So my wife would like our new camera to be much better at dealing with
redeye, and I'd like a camera with at least 10x zoom. From what I've read, I
really like the Canon S2, but according to the review on DCRP, the S2 still
has issues with redeye. Is this true, is it as bad as the A70? Another issue
stopping my wife from liking the S2 is it's size. She would prefer a
Panasonic DMC-TZ1 over the S2, but again reading a TZ1 review on DCRP, it
too has redeye issues. It seems like Kodak is the best in terms of dealing
with redeye, but I keep reading that the image quality is nowhere near as
good as Canon's or Panasonic's.

So is the Canon S2 a good camera for my needs?

My needs...

$400 budget
10x and above zoom
5 megapixel
great at handling redeye

I have no real brand preference.

Thanks!

"Fatbob" <spam.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi everyone!
>
> My Canon A70 is sadly broken, so I'm in the market for a new camera. Both
> my
> wife and I were/are very happy with the image quality of the A70, with our
> only complaint being redeye. The A70 had a huge redeye problem, that
> really
> bug us both.
>
> So my wife would like our new camera to be much better at dealing with
> redeye, and I'd like a camera with at least 10x zoom. From what I've read,
> I
> really like the Canon S2, but according to the review on DCRP, the S2
> still
> has issues with redeye. Is this true, is it as bad as the A70? Another
> issue
> stopping my wife from liking the S2 is it's size. She would prefer a
> Panasonic DMC-TZ1 over the S2, but again reading a TZ1 review on DCRP, it
> too has redeye issues. It seems like Kodak is the best in terms of dealing
> with redeye, but I keep reading that the image quality is nowhere near as
> good as Canon's or Panasonic's.
>
> So is the Canon S2 a good camera for my needs?
>
> My needs...
>
> $400 budget
> 10x and above zoom
> 5 megapixel
> great at handling redeye
>
> I have no real brand preference.
>
> Thanks!
>
>

Redeye is caused by having a flash that is close to the lens and the person
looking straight into the camera lens.

The red is really the blood vessels inside of the eye reflecting back to the
camera lens.

If the flash is moved some distance away from the line of the lens and/or
the person looks slightly away from the camera lens, you won't get redeye.

Because of that fact just about any camera that has a built-in flash that is
close to the lens will produce redeye.

There are cameras that have a pre-flash that is supposed to help reduce
redeye, but does not work in all cases.

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