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The Canon PowerShot SD790 IS Digital ELPH camera's optically image stabilized 3x zoom has a focusing range from a wide-angle equivalent of 35mm to a maximum telephoto equivalent of 105mm. The 10-megapixel SD790 IS' multi-control dial enables the user to simply switch between shooting modes, settings and even images during playback, with easily understandable mode icons displayed on the camera's LCD display. Though smaller than a deck of playing cards, the PowerShot SD790 IS Digital ELPH camera conveys a cool, substantial look and feel, thanks to its solid, yet streamlined, chiseled design. Adding to its appeal is the camera's large and highly visible, three-inch PureColor LCD II display, with an adjacent multi-control dial and new button configuration that combine to form a flat control panel.

Whether capturing spur-of-the moment inspirations or momentous family occasions, the Canon PowerShot SD790 IS Digital ELPH continues to provide intelligent, easy-to-use features, resulting in fantastic photos. Integrated Canon technologies such as Motion Detection Technology, Optical Image Stabilization, Genuine Canon Face Detection Technology, and Canon's proprietary DIGIC III imaging processor, along with the inherent style of the ELPH line; make it the ideal accessory for capturing a night out on the town or an intimate social gathering.

Canon PowerShot SD790 IS Key Features

Canon PowerShot SD790 IS Digital Camera Supplied Accessories:

• Battery Pack NB-5L
• Battery Charger CB-2LX
• 32MB SD Memory Card SDC-32M
• Wrist Strap WS-DC2
• USB Interface Cable IFC-400PCU
• AV Cable AVC-DC400
• Digital Camera Solution CD-ROM

Compact and Stylish Body With Cutting-Edge Design

While the chiseled angles and subtle gleam of the PowerShot SD790 IS Digital ELPH camera will ensure plenty of eyes on your camera, your own eyes will be dazzled by the big 3.0-inch PureColor LCD II. Cool new flat buttons in an intuitive new configuration add to the cutting-edge experience.

10.0 Megapixels

The PowerShot SD790 IS features a 1/2.3-inch CCD image sensor with 10.0-megapixel resolution. The SD790 IS Digital ELPH captures 3648 x 2736 pixel images with exceptional detail and color fidelity.

High-Resolution 3.0-inch PureColor LCD II Monitor

Despite its compact dimensions, the SD790 IS Digital ELPH features a large 3-inch wide viewing angle type LCD screen. The bright 230,000 pixel LCD screen features Canon's new PureColor LCD II. A color filter in the durable, scratch-resistant LCD screen expands the color range for a sharp and vivid display. Canon's second-generation PureColor LCD II offers spectacular color, resolution and contrast, all visible even at an angle. The screen makes it easy to gather friends and family around to see your images.

Genuine Canon Lens With 3x Optical Zoom, 12x Combined Zoom

Despite a body thickness of less than an inch, the PowerShot SD790 IS Digital ELPH camera accommodates a retractable 3x optical zoom with an equivalent 35mm focal length of 35-105mm. This sharp and fast 3X optical zoom lens, opening up to f/2.8 at wide-angle settings and f/4.9 at telephoto settings, is ideally suitable for a wide range of photographic applications from landscapes and snapshots to portraits and macro at a working distance of just over an inch from the subject.

Optical Image Stabilizer

Canon's sophisticated Optical Image Stabilizer technology uses miniature gyroscopic sensors to detect motion and generate a corrective signal. An image stabilizing lens group along the optical axis is shifted in response to the detected motion, providing effective cancellation of unwanted lens movement and vibration. The benefits are obvious and enormous: in still photography, the camera can now be handheld at slower shutter speeds without resulting in blurred images. Handheld video footage is smoother -- free of the unsteadiness that can make viewing home movies tiresome.

The PowerShot SD790 IS Digital ELPH's Lens-Shift type optical image stabilization system is based on advancements made in the development of Canon's EF lenses and video lenses. Unlike electronic or digital image stabilization systems that typically degrade image quality, the PowerShot SD950 IS digital camera's lens shift-type preserves maximum optical performance.

Exclusive Canon UA Lens

The UA Lens (Ultra High Refractive Index Aspherical Lens) is a Canon exclusive: a glass-molded Aspherical lens with an ultra high refractive index that delivers bright, clear shots. This special glass allows a compactness unusual in a wide-angle lens, contributing to the SD790 IS's impressively slim profile.

Canon's heritage as an imaging company dates back over 70 years to the company's founding in 1934. Since then, Canon has worked hard to perfect the process of creating extremely high-quality optics for its line of imaging products and is now the world's largest manufacturer of cameras and lenses. Canon is a global leader in optical design, with many advanced and original technologies that allow Canon users to achieve the sharpest images possible.

DIGIC III Image Processor

The brain behind this beauty is DIGIC III, the newest iteration of Canon's ultra-efficient (and proprietary) image processor. Canon's exclusive DIGIC III Image Processor builds on the technological superiority of DIGIC and DIGIC II, taking image quality, performance and speed to new levels. It is the DIGIC III chip that accounts for the PowerShot SD790 IS camera's higher performance levels including faster start up, autofocus and shutter response times; improved maximum processing speed; and of course, enhanced image quality and more efficient power consumption; resulting in extended battery life under typical shooting conditions.

Canon developed the proprietary DIGIC (Digital Imaging Integrated Circuit) Image Processor specifically for use with its line of digital cameras. The technology combines the jobs of image processing and camera function control into one chip. Because it was specifically designed for use in digital cameras, it is also capable of handling JPEG compression/expansion; memory card control; LCD/Video control and processing; gain control (control of CCD signal amplification); Auto Exposure; Auto Focus; Auto White Balance control and most other functions of the camera. The result is a product that offers faster and more powerful auto focus than ever before, faster image processing, better image quality and longer battery life.

Motion Detection Technology

Canon's new Motion Detection Technology makes it easier than ever to capture a clear, sharp image every time. As you compose your photos and snap away, it automatically optimizes ISO settings based on changes in brightness, changes between frames, and motion detected by Optical Image Stabilizer, Face Detection, AE Function and AF Technology. All you need is to set High ISO Auto mode and the result is stunning photos with every shot. When the camera detects a subject in motion, it automatically sets a higher ISO number and faster shutter speed to reduce blur. When subject or camera movement is not detected, lower ISOs are set automatically. The result is beautiful, sharp images with great color and low digital noise.

Advanced Face Detection AF/AE/FE/WB Technology and Red-Eye Correction

Your most cherished images often feature faces, and Canon's advanced Face Detection Technology gives every face its best chance to shine. The PowerShot SD790 IS Digital ELPH camera features the latest and most advanced generation of Genuine Canon Face Detection Technology. The technology finds the face(s) in the frame -- whether posed for a family portrait, candidly capturing friends and fun, or spontaneously snapping a toddler's expression of triumphant glee as two halting steps -- and ensures these faces are in focus and properly exposed, with or without flash. In addition to focus and exposure control, the camera's Face Detection feature captures truer, more accurately lit skin tones (and hence more beautifully rendered pictures) thanks to Canon's improved Face Detection White Balance. This ensures that both flesh tones and backgrounds are rendered with natural, realistic hues. Face Selector can detect up to 35 faces with a single press of a button. Face Selector AF lets you track a specific face, retain focus even as it moves, and press the shutter button when you're ready. AF Point Zoom lets you zoom in on a selected face to check its expression and make adjustments without missing the best shot.

ISO 1600 Sensitivity

Thanks to the DIGIC III chip's more aggressive noise reduction, the SD790 IS is able to shoot at ISO equivalent speed ratings from 80 to as high as 1600. This increased sensitivity at the top-end allows users to select faster shutter speeds, adding additional stability and reducing the danger of camera shake and subject blur during hand held, low-light photography.

Image Inspection Tool

The Image Inspection Tool feature zooms in on faces automatically during playback to make it even easier to check facial expressions.

Noise Reduction

Experienced photographers know that high ISO speeds can coincide with increased levels of noise: aberrant or stray signals that degrade image quality. With Canon's exclusive DIGIC III Image Processor, there is no need for compromise. DIGIC III offers a major boost in noise reduction signal processing to compensate for the higher ISO settings it enables.

Canon iSAPS Technology

Over the past 68 years, Canon has accumulated a vast amount of photographic data and know-how and used it to create some of the most innovative camera products in the marketplace. Now, using that same data and know-how, Canon has developed an exclusive technology called iSAPS (Intelligent Scene Analysis based on Photographic Space) that can predict certain camera settings such as focusing distance, exposure and optimum white balance based on zoom focal length, overall light level and tonal distribution data. Canon refers to this collective data as "Photographic Space." By incorporating iSAPS technology into its PowerShot line, the cameras can analyze a scene just before the image is made and in doing so, increase the speed and precision of the camera's autofocus, auto exposure and auto white balance.

MMC, SD and SDHC-Compatible Digital ELPH

The Canon PowerShot SD790 IS uses the incredibly tiny SD memory cards. Get expanded capacity and high-speed writing from a memory card the size of a postage stamp. It is also compatible with the new higher-capacity SDHC cards and with MultiMediaCard.

AF Point Zoom

Turn on the AF Point Zoom feature to see an enlargement of the focus position when you press the shutter halfway for focus (when Face Detect AF or one-point AF is in use). This feature makes it easy to capture the perfect facial expression of your subject, or check for precise focus in macro shots.

Red-Eye Correction

New technology combines with Face Detection to allow this PowerShot camera to detect and remove red-eye, as images are played back on the LCD monitor. This model can even detect and remove red-eye as photographs are taken.

Four Movie Modes Including 30 fps VGA and Time Lapse

The PowerShot SD790 IS Digital ELPH is appointed with a full-range of movie features including a built-in microphone and speaker. Among the options is high-resolution VGA (640 x 480) 30 fps VGA mode. Time Lapse is a new feature that mimics the effect of time lapse photography. Clips are recorded at one or two fps, then played back at 15 fps for a fascinating effect. The compact movie mode -- designed with e-mail attachments in mind -- captures a maximum of three minutes of recording at 15 fps and a resolution of 160 x 120 pixels.

19 Shooting Modes

The Canon SD790 IS offers a wide variety of shooting modes to optimize the camera's performance based on user preferences or shooting conditions. These modes include:

• Auto - The camera chooses all the settings so you can concentrate on your subject.
• Camera M (Manual) - The ultimate in creative control, you set aperture and shutter speed.
• Digital Macro - The camera trims the image center and digitally zooms to create beautiful enlarged close-ups.
• Color Accent - Choose to retain a single color in your image while other colors turn monochrome.
• Color Swap - Enables users to alter specific colors in an image by sampling another color from the same image or any other image on the camera's memory card.
• Stitch Assist - Build inspiring panoramas by neatly aligning sequential images.
• Special Scene - See below
• Movie - See above
• Continuous - approx. 1.4 fps

12 Special Scene Modes

The Special Scene mode allows users to achieve optimum results in popular picture-taking situations including:

• Portrait - The camera sets a large aperture, focuses the subject and artistically blurs the background to make your subject "pop".
• Foliage - Capture brilliant shots of autumn foliage, greenery and flowers.
• Snow - Shoot clear snow scenes without darkened subjects and bluish tint.
• Beach - Get clear shots of people at a sunny beach without darkened faces.
• Sunset - Retain all the vivid colors of a sunset along with optimum white balance.
• Fireworks - Grab brilliant images of skyrocketing fireworks.
• Aquarium - Permits low light, no-flash photography in situations where using a flash would ruin a picture by bouncing back off aquarium glass or other reflective surfaces.
• Underwater - Achieve natural-looking color even when shooting underwater.
• ISO 3200 - Expands your ability to shoot in even darker settings without using the flash, and helps capture well-exposed images.
• Indoor - Improves natural color and reduces camera shake while shooting under artificial light.
• Kids & Pets - Shoot moving subjects without losing your chance to get those unforgettable moments.
• Night Snapshot - Capture people against a softly glowing night background without a tripod.

16:9 Widescreen Mode

The PowerShot SD790 IS includes a widescreen resolution option, producing images that are perfect for your widescreen TV or computer monitor.

Print/Share Button

The PowerShot SD790 IS Digital ELPH features Canon's popular Print and Share function, which enables one-touch direct printing or direct transfer via PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol) to compatible personal computers using the supplied USB interface cable. Once connected, the Print/Share button will light up blue, indicating that it is ready to print. New in this generation of cameras is the ability to download images directly to Mac OS X (10.1.5 and higher) as well as Windows^® XP operating systems.

Direct Printing

Direct Printing significantly expands the appeal of the PowerShot SD790 IS digital camera by making it simple, quick and convenient to produce high-quality photos without the need for a personal computer. Beyond its Direct Print capability with Canon's Card Photo Printers and acclaimed Canon Direct Photo Printers, the camera is also compatible with PictBridge, an industry protocol that offers the flexibility of direct printing to other brands of PictBridge compatible printers.

The PowerShot SD790 IS supports all current PictBridge functions. Established as the global industry standard for direct printing from any PictBridge compliant camera to any PictBridge compliant printer regardless of brand, these functions include single image prints, several selected images per print, as well as more advanced PictBridge setup features including print cropping, quantity selection, date imprinting, Layout print (fixed size), Layout print (N-up) and File Name imprinting.

The PowerShot SD790 IS digital camera supports Exif Print, a worldwide standard that transfers important camera settings and data from the camera to the printer ensuring the photos you print will look true to life. Moreover, DPOF 1.1 (Digital Print Order Format) lets users specify the images to be printed or execute batch printing of selected images.

The PowerShot SD790 IS' Direct Print options include ID Photo Print that automatically generates passport style prints on 4x6 paper with Canon CP type printers as well as ID prints of various sizes (selectable on the camera-menu) and even in-camera image cropping using the camera's monitor. The SD790 IS Direct Print capability also includes Movie Print mode that prints thumbnail sequences from movie clip captures (with Canon CP-type printers). While the camera automatically calculates the thumbnail intervals based on the length of the movie clip, sequences of up to 20 thumbnails can be printed to credit card-sized paper and up to 63 on Postcard-size paper.

Direct Transfer

Beyond the new Print/Share button and Direct Print features, the PowerShot SD790 IS also provides a Direct Transfer setting that permits instant image download to Windows computers (using a USB cable connection). The Direct Transfer mode features five options: Download all images; Download New Images Only; Download Only DPOF (Digital Print Order Format)-selected images (protocol used for batch printing); select images on camera's LCD monitor and download and download selected image and make it into Windows Wallpaper. Appropriate driver software is provided with the camera for Windows 98, 2000 and ME operating systems; no drivers are needed to operate the Direct Transfer feature using Windows XP.

High-Speed USB 2.0

The pace of image transfer is accelerated (when used with a USB 2.0 compatible computer, printer or other peripheral) thanks to the inclusion of a High-Speed USB 2.0 port, the first time this feature has appeared in the PowerShot series. The USB 2.0 port is backwards compatible (at no increased speed) with computers featuring standard USB 1.1 connections.

My Colors Function

My Colors lets you customize color before shooting and correct individual colors on the LCD screen as you shoot! Whether the desired effect is to make the color more real or surreal, these digital dynamos are capable of capturing and saving both the original still image and the enhanced color versions as separate files on the camera's SD memory card. Where previously, users could only enable "My Colors" while shooting, the current iteration permits captured images to be retouched as well, without the need for special software applications or tools.

Twelve modes offer many options:

• Vivid Color - Yields vibrant shots with dramatic high-contrast.
• Vivid Green - Add vivid dimension to greens for extraordinary nature shots.
• Vivid Red - Charge up red objects in your images for extra impact.
• Vivid Blue - Emphasize the sea, sky, or other blue areas.
• Lighter Skin Tone - Lighten your subjects' skin tones paler.
• Darker Skin Tone - Darken skin tones a shade.
• Positive Film - Combines Vivid Red, Vivid Green and Vivid Blue to achieve a positive film effect.
• Neutral Color - Produces images of subtle, elegant tonality.
• Sepia - Recreates the look of vintage photographs.
• Black & White - Delivers enhanced clarity -- especially useful when shooting text.
• Custom Color - Set balance of red, green, blue and skin colors; finely adjust brightness and vividness.

Fast and Responsive Shutter

The Canon PowerShot SD790 IS has a maximum shutter speed of 1/1500 second and can capture still photos continuously at rates up to 1.4 fps.

ISO Flexibility

Adjusting the camera's sensitivity levels to your lighting conditions is easy. That's because Canon has related these levels to the ISO film speeds you already know from traditional cameras. Simply select the sensitivity that corresponds to ISO 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 or choose AUTO and let the camera decide for you.

White Balance Control

A choice of preset White Balance settings gives you natural-looking images under almost any lighting condition. There's Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent and Fluorescent H. Select the one that fits your environment. You can also create and store a custom setting.

Evaluative Metering, Center-Weighted Average Metering and Spot Metering

Three light-metering modes are available for precise exposure. Canon's sophisticated Evaluative metering is the ideal metering choice for most situations. There's also Center-weighted metering, which is perfect for shooters who prefer to dial in their own exposure compensation. Finally, for the utmost precision, there's Spot metering -- which can measure a tiny area either at the center of the image, or can be linked to the AF point if it's off-center.

Built-in Flash

Shooting with flash never slows down the action. You can opt to allow the flash to fire automatically whenever the camera detects a low ambient light situation. The camera's built-in flash includes Red-Eye Reduction.

Canon PowerShot SD790 IS Specifications

Type of Camera:

Compact digital still camera with built-in flash, 3x Optical / 4x Digital / 12x Combined Zoom with Optical Image Stabilizer System

Image Capture Device:

10.3 million pixel gross, 1/2.3 inch charge coupled device (CCD), Approx. 10.0 Million Effective Pixels

Lens:

6.2-18.6mm, f/2.8-4.9 zoom lens (equiv. to 35-105mm in 35mm format)

Digital Zoom

4x

Focus Range:

Normal AF: 12 in./30cm-Infinity;
Macro AF: 1.2 in.-1.6 ft./3-50cm;(WIDE)
Digital Macro: 1.2 in.- 3.9 in./3-10cm (WIDE)

Autofocus System

TTL Autofocus

Maximum Aperture

f/2.8 (W), f/4.9 (T)

Shutter Speed:

1/60-1/1500 sec., 15-1/1500 sec.; Slow shutter operates with noise reduction when manually set at 1.3-15 sec.

Exposure Control:

Program AE; AE Lock is available

ISO Sensitivity:

Auto, High ISO Auto, or User Set ISO 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 equivalent (Standard output sensitivity. Recommended exposure index)

Light Metering Method:

Evaluative (Control to incorporate facial brightness in Face Detection AF), Center-weighted average or Spot metering (Metering frame when spot is center fixed)

Exposure Compensation:

+/- 2.0 EV in 1/3 step increments

White Balance Control:

Auto, Pre-set (Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H), or Custom

Built-in Flash Modes:

Auto, Red-eye Reduction, Auto Red-eye Correction, Flash On, Flash Off; FE lock, Slow Synchro

Flash Range:

Normal: 12 in.-11 ft./30cm - 3.5m (W), 12 in.-6.6 ft./30cm - 2.0m (T) (When ISO is set to Auto)

Flash Recycling Time:

Approx. 10 sec. or less (battery voltage=3.7V)

Flash Exposure Compensation:

Not Available

Optical Viewfinder:

Not Available

LCD Viewfinder:

3.0" low-temperature polycrystalline sillicon TFT color LCD with wide viewing angle (PureColor LCD II), Approx. 230,000 pixels, LCD Coverage 100%

Resolution (Recording Pixels):

Still Image: 3648 x 2736 (Large), 3648 x 2048 (Widescreen), 2816 x 2112 (Medium 1), 2272 x 1704 (Medium 2), 1600 x 1200 (Medium 3/Date Stamp), 640 x 480 (Small); Movie: 640 x 480 (30 fps/30 fps LP), 320 x 240 (30 fps) available up to 4GB or 60 minutes, 640 x 480 (up to 2 hours at 0.5 fps/1 fps), 160 x 120 (up to 3 min. at 15 fps)

File Size: (average)

• Small/Normal - 84KB
• Small/Fine - 150KB
• Small/Super Fine - 249KB
• Med. 3/Normal - 278KB
• Med. 3/Fine - 558KB
• Med. 3/Super Fine - 1002KB
• Med. 2/Normal - 556 KB
• Med. 2/Fine - 1116 KB
• Med. 2/Super Fine - 2002 KB
• Medium 1/Normal - 780 KB
• Medium 1/Fine - 1620 KB
• Medium 1/Super Fine - 2720 KB
• Large/Normal - 1226 KB
• Large/Fine - 2565 KB
• Large/Super Fine - 4332 KB
• Widescreen/Normal - 918 KB
• Widescreen/Fine - 1920 KB
• Widescreen/Super Fine - 3243 KB
• Movie 640 x 480 30 fps - 1963 KB/sec.
• Movie 640 x 480 30 fps LP - 1003 KB/sec.
• Movie 320 x 240 30 fps - 703 KB/sec.
• Movie/Compact 160 x 120 15 fps - 131 KB/sec
• Movie/Time Lapse 640 x 480 1 fps - 64 KB/sec.
• Movie/Time Lapse 640 x 480 0.5 fps - 32 KB/sec.

Image Storage Capacity:

Storage capacity varies depending on the scene or the subjects. This data is estimated from Canon's standard shooting conditions. Figures for Movie Mode represent total capacity of SD Memory Card. The values given above vary depending on the subject, shooting conditions and shooting mode.

Image Quality Modes (JPEG):

Normal, Fine, SuperFine

File Format:

Design rule for Camera File system, DPOF Version 1.1 (Digital Print Order Format)

Image Recording Format:

Still Image: JPEG (Exif 2.2 compliant)
Movies: AVI (Image data: Motion JPEG; Audio data: WAV, Monaural)

Recording Media:

SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card, MultiMediaCard, MMC Plus Card, HC MMC Plus Card

Continuous Shooting

Approx. 1.4 shots/sec.

Wireless Control

N/A

Shooting Modes:

Auto, Camera M, Special Scene (Portrait, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Sunset, Fireworks, Aquarium, ISO 3200, Underwater, Indoor, Kids & Pets, Night Snapshot), Color Accent, Color Swap, Digital Macro, Stitch Assist, Movie

Photo Effect:

My Colors: Vivid, Vivid Blue, Vivid Green, Vivid Red, Neutral, Sepia, Black & White, Positive Film, Lighter Skin Tone, Darker Skin Tone, Custom Color

Self-Timer

Operates with approx. 2 sec. or 10 sec. delay, Custom

Playback Modes:

Still Image: Single, Magnification (approx. 2x-10x), Jump, Auto Rotate, Rotation, Resume Playback, My Colors, My Category, Transition Effects, Histogram, Overexposure Warning, Index (9 thumbnails), Sound Memos, Slide Show, Red-eye Correction, RAW, Trimming, Resize, Image Inspection Tool
Movie: Normal Playback, Special Playback, Editing, Auto Rotate, Resume

Erase Modes:

Still images: Single image, select range, select by by date, select by by category, select by by folder, all images; Movie: Part of Movie, All Movie

Interfaces:

Computer Interface: USB 2.0 Hi-Speed (mini-B jack)
Video Output (NTSC or PAL selectable)
Audio Out: Monaural
Other: Memory card slot; Direct connection to Canon CP, SELPHY, PIXMA Photo Printers and PictBridge compatible printers via camera's USB 2.0 Hi-Speed cable.

Power Sources:

Rechargeable lithium ion battery NB-5L (included) or AC Adapter Kit ACK-DC30 (sold separately)

Shooting Capacity:

Still Image*: approx. 330 shots (NB-5L/LCD on)
Playback Time: Approx. 420 min. (NB-5L)

* The above figures comply with CIPA testing standards and apply when a fully-charged battery is used.

Operating Range:

Operating Temperature: 32 - 104º F (0 - 40º C); Operating Humidity 10 - 90%

Dimensions (W x H x D):

3.61 x 2.24 x 0.82 in. (91.6 x 56.8 x 20.9 mm)

Weight (w/o battery and SD card):

Approx. 5.47 oz. (155g)

All data are based on Canon's Standard Test Method. Subject to change without notice.

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