Originally Posted by
shiato storm
I I don't think many cameras have stabilization, and on a small camera it may just be more of a gimick than anything else. it wasn't around a few years ago as much as it is now, do you think pictures then were worse for that? nope, its just not vitally necessary thats all so don't get fixated on it. I would go for stabilisation if the camera had a long zoom lens on, then I can see the need for one, otherwise I can't really.
the s70 and s80 are good, though the s80 doesn't use RAW when the s70 did...not sure why canon changed that, s70 too much of a good thing?