New: Canon PowerShot S5 is

[MindBuster]

The new Canon PowerShot S5is is out...

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0705/07050703canons5is.asp

For those who wonders what happened with S4 I've been told that the number "4" isnt used much in Japan, look at Mazda 3, 5, and 6, there were no Mazda 4, it's said to bring misfortune or something like that, just like the number "13" in some countries.

 

[fugu]

Same reason they didn't make a G4. The character for the number 4 is pronounced "shi" which also means "death," which is why it's considered bad luck

 

[Grentz]

It must pain them to make f/4 lenses then (one of the more common apertures for SLR Lenses)

 

[Black Morty Rackham]

It must pain them to make f/4 lenses then (one of the more common apertures for SLR Lenses)

Maybe they say "f 0.25" instead of "f 1:4"?

 

[Jerome36]

I got the S5 last week. I was wondering why there wasn't an S4.

Anyway, does anybody else have this camera? I just got a larger memory card for it, so I can really get into the swing of things, as far as taking photos, and learning how to use it properly. The 32mb card it came with is pretty useless.

 

[Joves]

So does the S4 have RAW now? They may have f/4 as f/3.9.