Which camera do you prefer Canon PS S500 or Casio Exlim EX Z55?

[Christopher Bir]

Which camera do you prefer Canon PS S500 or Casio Exlim EX Z55?

I'm interested in a light weight, high resolution, fast, good quality producing camera.
Cost is not the concern, rather quality.
Should I be considering the Casio EX Pro 600?

Thanks

[Need4Spd]

I'd sooner go with a Canon SD300 than an S500. You don't give up much if at all in picture taking ability and you get a smaller, lighter package with a later generation processor.

[ReF]

I'd sooner go with a Canon SD300 than an S500. You don't give up much if at all in picture taking ability and you get a smaller, lighter package with a later generation processor.

huh? what do you mean by "picture taking ability?" if you are talking about picture quality, then maybe re-reading the reviews would be called for. seems the SD200/300 line is much faster and a bit smaller, but it also comes with blurry corners and CA. I know that CA seems to be a trademark problem with canons and I don't know if the SD200/300 has any more of it than the S410/500, but I don't recall the older line having blurry/soft corners.

chris:

S410/500: better picture quality, bigger, slower, small LCD.
SD200/300: smaller, faster, excellent movie mode, big LCD, blurry corners
Casio 55: pretty much same size as SD200/300, fast, excellent battery life, big LCD, blurry corners

now it just comes down to which one of those combinations you prefer.

personally, I'd be happier if they didn't try to shrink the ELPH's so much as this seems to have forced the use of that problematic lens, and just improved it's other specs. I also don't see why sony is the only company putting shutter speed and aperture controls on their small cameras. Seems to me like the sony p150 has it all (or at least the most), except a stabilized lens (but that may be asking for too much).