The modish study direction Canon's plain line of image-stabilized superzoom cameras, the 8-megapixel Canon PowerShot S5 IS is similar to its predecessor, the 6-megapixel PowerShot S3 IS (Canon skipped a number so there's no S4). Both have an image-stabilized 12x optical zoom lens with a focal range of 36-432mm (35mm equivalent), an SLR-like design, an articulated LCD, and a versatile feature set that mixes a full range of manual exposure controls (Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Manual) with easy-to-use Auto, Program, and Scene modes.

The Canon PowerShot S3 IS is the strange significance quality cameras, following the 5.0-Mp S2 IS, the 3.2-Mp S1 IS, and the 2.6-Mp Pro90 IS.
The Canon S3 IS accommodates a gaping range of users with its adaptable abort of blaze control. Experienced shooters will flip over the Manual, Aperture Priority, and Shutter Priority modes, while novices will find the Auto, Program AE, and Scene modes useful. With a full range of creative effects, the added attraction of 12x zoom Canon optics, and optical image stabilization,  a feature found on only a handful of digital cameras, most of them more expensive, the Canon S3 IS should appear high up on the lists for photographers looking for a long-zoom camera. Like its predecessor, the S3 IS's well-integrated Movie mode can record at 640x480 pixels and 30 fps with zoom and it records stereo sound.

Built around a 12.8-megapixel (effective) CMOS sensor, cover the homologous apartment in that a 35mm film frame, the Canon EOS 5D provides "full frame" digital SLR technology at a tremendously more affordable assessment point than ever before. "Affordable" is definitely a relative term though, as the Canon 5D's $3500 retail price (at announcement) still puts it beyond the reach of all but the most well-heeled photo enthusiasts and professionals.

The Olympus SP-560 UltraZoom digital camera attributes a 1/2.35 inch CCD imager with a ruling of eight megapixels, coupled with an Olympus-branded 18x optical flash lens with an painfully wide-ranging fitter of 35mm angel focal lengths from 27 to 486mm and f/2.8 to 4.5 maximum aperture.

The Kodak EasyShare Z885 personality eight megapixel of settlement coupled to a benign 36 - 180 mm icon Kodak-branded 5x optical speed lens. The Kodak Z885 further  includes a 2.5" 115,000 pixel LCD display, 24MB of built-in memory, SD / MMC spot slot, USB again NTSC / PAL video connectivity, besides competence from two AA batteries (with disposables in the product bundle).

The Kodak EasyShare C763 combines a seven megapixel CCD imager also a Kodak-branded 3x optical fly lens with a tolerably familiar 35 - 105mm carbon copy focal range. For framing images, there's a 2.5" LCD exhibit but adore copious usual models, the C763 has no optical viewfinder. Images are stored on Secure Digital / Multimedia Cards, or esteem 32MB of internal memory.

The Kodak M753 has 17 bag modes to succor beginners procure the results they're looking whereas without the liking to believe subtleties flip over shutter speeds, apertures also the like. Scene modes provided are: portrait, sports, landscape, children, blackness portrait, beach, snow, fireworks, self portrait, backlight, nit landscape, text/document, manner/museum, flower, sunset, panorama, and candlelight. Additional shooting modes include auto, video, Favorites, digital IS, high ISO, and close-up.

Based on Panasonic's Lumix DMC-L1, the Leica Digilux 3 is the company's boon digital SLR offering, concentric with Olympus' Four Thirds lens impel standard. The Digilux 3 is powerful an racy SLR with a methodical - maybe retro - styling pleasing that the shooting match says is the game of Berlin designer Professor Atcham Haines. It is based around the same 7.5 effective megapixel Live MOS image sensor that first debuted in Olympus' EVOLT E-330 digital SLR, along with the mirror box unit from that camera (which combines a quick-return mirror, viewfinder, and AE sensor).