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2000 | By Phil Askey  Canon Powershot S20 (click for larger
image)  Officially Casio beat Canon to the 3.34 megapixel
announcement (well at least to the general public anyway),
howeve rumours of the S20 had been popping up in various cyber-
spaces for a couple of months now. Just last week Canon
announced the S20, a 3.34 megapixel (3.14 megapixels effective -
2048 x 1536) version of its successful, recent, but popular S10.
Features wise the S20 is identical to the S10, body size,
operation, menus and software are all the same. The case is
champagne rather than silver and the only other difference is
the "3.3" and "S20" on the front. Just makes me wonder how happy
recent purchasers of the S10 are...  The camera for this review
is an "MT sample" (which basically means pre-release), the
original unit supplied was replaced by an MT2 sample which
though still pre-release is deemed very close to final
production (thus reviewable).  Because the S20 is so si