Hi Dan, Great story :-)
I can confirm it is easily overlooked, I got myself an Optio-S yesterday too. Really amazed at the size and weight of it. It replaces an over 2-year old Canon S20, and while that was 3 megapixels as well it is MUCH bigger and heavier! Also, the Optio has way more options and settings than the Canon had, including some simple things like display of F-stop and shutter speed, or even a live histogram ... Another thing that amazed me was the very good macro capability. In it's 'super macro' setting it covers an area of only 36x27 mm, still with a very usable DOF. Regards, JvW On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:16:28 -0500, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >My new Optio S arrived today. I was a bit surprised at how big >the box was. > >I removed a cardboard piece from the top of the box, noting that >it contained a USB cable, and I put it aside. Then I removed the >contents of the box, including a battery, a battery charger, the >manual, a CD, and more cables. Where's the camera? There's no >bloody camera in here!! (Actually, I used language that was a >bit stronger.) > >Eventually, I went back and picked up that cardboard piece that >was on top. I removed the USB cable and there, behind the cable, >was the camera. Yikes! It's so small I almost threw it out with >the packing materials! > >It really looks like it will be a lot of fun, but first I have to >charge the battery.... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery
