Please help choosing Canon for time-lapse.

[Riverdog]

I'm hoping someone can help me. I want to get my husband a digital camera as a gift. He needs to do time-lapse images, but I do not want an expensive Canon. He will be crawling around in caves with this camera and has already trashed two camcorders. I was looking at the Canon PowerShot S60 but wasn't sure it did time lapse. I got to admit I'm even watching an older S30 on Ebay but again I'm not sure it will do time-lapse.

Could someone please tell me which Canon's will do time-lapse? As you can tell, I have no idea what I'm looking for! I have a Canon camcorder that takes photos and that is about all the knowlege I have! Any help here will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[adas]

Forget about getting the S30. It has no time lapse shooting feature( Intervallometer). You should consider the S45, S50, S60, S70, S80.

[Salleke]

Welcome to the forum. You also consider the Powershot S2 IS. Good luck.

[Riverdog]

Thanks for your help. I'll start looking over the models that are mentioned.
The Powershot S2 IS looks really nice, but a little over the price range to be used crawling around in caves. What about the SD400? It's a little cheaper but I can't find specs that mention Intervallometer feature. Thanks by the way for letting me know what the time lapse thingy was called.

[adas]

Looks like SD400 hasn't Intervallometer. To check all Canon models go to this page:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/

Click on the picture of the item you want to see information about. Scroll down to "Time lapse recording" feature to check if is available.