Canon PowerShot S230 Digital Camera Review by Kevin Warrene
My Machine Set Up: PowerMac G4/733 w/ 384mb RAM OS 9.2.2 & OS 10.2.3 What I Bought: My First Digital Camera Canon PowerShot S230 Digital Camera @$399.00 3.2 Mega-Pixel and includes a 16MB Compact Flash Card Lexar 128MB Compact Flash Card @$69.00 ***This card will hold 219 pictures at my current settings of 1600x1200 pixels resolution at a Fine compression setting. Get more specifications at the Apple Store Online. Tamrac Digital Series 5692 Small Camera Bag @$19.95 The Camera Set Up: Out of the box this camera was easy to get up and running. You will need to charge the battery for this 2+ hours initially. After the battery was charged the initial set up was rather easy and painless, there is a 26 page quick start guide that puts you through the paces of setting the 20+ menu options. The default settings will most likely work for the vast majority of photographers to start out with. I was taking pictures right away!! Easy to view your target through the LCD monitor, take the picture, view the photo and edit,save or delete the photo on the fly. There is a 150-page Camera Users Guide included. The Software: OS 9 disks and iPhoto w/ OS X You get some software to install at your leisure, well, at least before you hook the camera up to your computer. There is a 120-page Software Starter Guide to help you along. This came with two disks, Canon Digital Camera Solution Disk that had the utilities on it (Image Browser, PhotoStitch, Remote Capture, file Viewer Utility, USB Mounter and the CP Printer Driver) and the ArcSoft Camera Suite with PhotoImpression and VideoImpression. Installation was simple and uneventful. While installation went along fine, I have had issues where my USB scanner (Canon CanoScan N670U) no longer functioned (computer didn't recognize it as being plugged in) and I had some major system freezes. In the meantime I have turned off all of the control panels and extensions and all seems to be back to normal. I will be investigating the issues within OS 9.2.2 to see what may be causing this. My initial thoughts are with the camera's USB mounter control panel and extension. But let's talk about using iPhoto software on Jaguar 10.2.2!!! I hooked up the camera with the USB cable that was provided with the camera and launched iPhoto. It recognized the camera and all I had to do was select the Import option to bring the camera's contents in the iPhoto Library. Once the photos were imported into the library I was ready to create my albums (File-->New Album). Give your album a name and you can then drag photos from the library to the album. Once the album is created you can go in and edit the photos if you desire. From here the fun is just getting started. There is a wealth of options that you can choose from once you select the Share button.
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(1)Print: Allows you to print a selected photo out with your printer. You can choose 4x6, 5x7, 8x10 or a contact sheet. You can select the paper your using as well. (2)Slide Show: N/A (3)Mail: Allows you to email a selected photo via your currently active email application. Your email app has to be running when you go to do this operation. (4)Order Prints: N/A (5)Order Book: N/A (6)Home Page: Allows you to create a web page as part of your.mac account (iTools). This was very slick and was done in roughly 15 minutes to put up 7-10 photos with titles and brief descriptions and the file upload. The program does the whole process for you. Check out the following pages that I created: http://homepage.mac.com/kwarrene/christmas.html http://homepage.mac.com/kwarrene/PhotoAlbum4.html (7)Desktop: Allows you to take a photo out of the library and with one click you have that photo on your desktop automatically. I am now proudly displaying our Christmas tree from Christmas morning. (8)Screen Saver: N/A (9)Export: Allows you to export a selected photo in several different file formats.

Web Site Links Related to this article: Canon PowerShot : http://www.powershot.com/powershot2/s230/index.html Lexar Compact Flash : http://www.digitalfilm.com/digfilm/index_cf.html Lexar at Apple Store : http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=T4502LL/A Tamrac Camera Bag : http://www.tamrac.com/5692.htm Apple iPhoto Software : http://www.apple.com/iphoto/

Installing Canon PowerShot S230 Buttons

Tools used in this guide

Phillips #00 Screwdriver (1)
This guide will show you how to get to the buttons to view them from inside the casing and to view the button sensors that are attached to the logic board.

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Step 1 - Battery
On the bottom of the camera, use your thumb to press the rubber battery cover towards the side of the camera with the strap base. The cover will shift to extend beyond the rest of the camera.

Step 2

Hold the end of the battery cover that extends beyond the camera and lift it up.

Step 3

Pull back on the orange tab to release the battery.

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Step 4

Pull the battery out.

Step 5 - Memory Card
Locate the sliding button labeled "CF open" on the back of the camera. Press and slide down the button labeled "CF open". The memory card cover will pop open.

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Step 6
Push down on the black square button next to the memory card slot. This will release the memory card from the slot.

Step 7

Pull the memory card out of the memory card slot.

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Step 8 - Camera Casing
Remove two 2.4mm Phillips screws from the right side of the camera.

Step 9

Remove two 2.4mm Phillips screws above the label on the bottom of the camera. Remove two 2.8mm Phillips screws next to the tripod hole.

Step 10

Remove the two 3.2mm Phillips screws that are closer to the top and bottom edges of the camera. Remove the two 3.8mm Phillips screws on either side of the strap base.

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Step 11
Remove one 1.6mm Phillips screw from the above the CF open button on back of the camera.

Step 12

Gently pull the front casing from the camera. The following items will either fall off or will be loose: the strap base, the gray rubber cover labeled "Digital A/V Out", and the black rubber piece over the view finder. Remove the memory card cover by sliding down the CF open button and moving the pin.

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Step 13
Gently pull the back casing from the camera.

Step 14 - Buttons

Locate the reverse side of the buttons by looking at the inside of the back camera casing. Locate the button sensors, which connect to the logic board by a connecting ribbon, by looking at the back of the camera once the back casing has been removed. The button sensors on the back of the camera should appear to match up with the reverse side of the buttons on the inside of the back camera casing. Imagine one as being the reverse image, or mirror image, of the other. This will help you locate where a problem is occuring if a button or a button sensor has been damaged.

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Step 15
Remove one 4.3mm screw directly below the power button on the top of the camera. This screw attaches the entire panel for the power and picture-taking buttons. Be sure you are removing the screw from the top of the camera, as it is close to another screw on the back side of the camera.

Step 16

Gently lift the button panel from the top of the camera. This is what the reverse side of the button panel looks like after removal.

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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
This document was last generated on Mar 17, 2011.

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