Paul Wylie wrote:
Bill wrote:

Has anyone compared the stabilization effectiveness of the Canon S1 IS
to the Olympus 2100UZ? I had a 2100UZ and I felt the stabilization was
much more effective than the Minolta Dimage A2 I have now. I was
looking at the Canon as a 2nd camera with long zoom and IS.


Agreed that the Dimage A2's IS is dramatically inferior. Olympus uses
Canon's lens-stabilization technology, while KonicaMinolta use digital
processing to compensate for the shake (instead of eliminating it).
The Oly/Canon lens-stabilization is dramatically superior.

I had a Dimage A2 for just under 30 days and returned it because of the
lousy anti-shake and other issues (noise at common ISO levels was also
objectionable). I bought a Canon Digital Rebel and am much happier with
it to date. The lens included with the Canon doesn't have IS, but its
focal length isn't long enough to make IS an absolute necessity. To cover
my desire for long focal length and quality IS, I'll be getting Canon's
75-300mm USM IS lens soon.

You might find the 28-135 IS more useful. It is the walk-around lens I
use with my DR 90% of the time. 135x1.6 gives pretty good reach.

I Like the kit lens -- but I have added a 17-40 f/4 L as my primary wide
angle lens. I use a Sigma 70-300APO Super Macro II as my long lens (but
I am not all that much into "long".

Part of the motivation for the 17-40: DR plus kit lens and a Tamron
28-200XR will be my wife's when I upgrade to the 10D replacement or
whatever next year.

Phil