I am also disappointed by the camera. I had the S60, G9, G10, G11, G12, SX40, S90, S95 and S100 now, but the S100 makes schechtesten pictures of all these. Compared are the pictures of my S95 show more detail, better resolution. After all the bad reviews in amazon.com months ago 3 I thought that the Canon S100 improved before it comes in DE on the market and I have just been waiting for more than 3 months, but for nothing! As the image quality is the top scale for me, I have the camera on the same day sold. The accolades from various test sites on the Internet I can not nachvolltziehen. With the PowerShot SX40 I got pretty good pictures and thought that the S100 larger CMOS chip would still provide slightly better images, but not! I'll stay with the S95 as a very compact and'm going to wait to see if there ever again is something useful in the compact class to the market. With my EOS 600D and the S95 I am very satisfied.