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Canon PowerShot S100 Digital ELPH

Canon packs 2 megapixels and a 2x optical zoom into the "smallest digicam on the planet!"

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Review First Posted: 6/20/2000

MSRP $699 US
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Shutter Lag/Cycle Times
When you press the shutter release on a camera, there's usually a lag time before the shutter actually fires. This time allows the autofocus and autoexposure mechanisms time to do their work and can amount to a fairly long delay in some situations. Since this number is almost never reported on, and can significantly affect the picture taking experience, we now routinely measure it using an electronic test setup.

S100 Digital ELPH Timings
Operation	Time (secs)	Notes
Power On -> First shot	4.1	Start with lens retracted. Time is delay until first shot captured.
Shutdown	1.6	Time until lens is retracted, camera is powered down. (No pending image processing though.)
Play to Record, first shot	2.8	Time is delay until first shot captured.
Record to play (max/min res)	1.5/1.0	Slower for max res images
Shutter lag, full autofocus	1.1/0.88	Wide/Tele (Wide is faster than tele)
Shutter lag, prefocus	0.19
Cycle time, Max/Min Res	2.9/2.4	Quite fast, almost the same in high res as low.
Cycle Time, Continuous Mode (high/low resolution)	0.9-2.0/0.95	Strangely variable cycle time in high resolution mode.