The only problem with powershots is that all of the pictures are EXTREMELY over sharpened, over color saturated and have an extremely deep dof. But that's true of 99% of point and shoot cameras. Someone who has one of the new powershots can probably say whether the firmware allows the user to tone down all of those parameters or not...

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