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The ultra-zoom Canon PowerShot SX100 IS digital camera is the first camera in a brand new PowerShot line -- the SX series. The PowerShot SX100 IS features a 10x optical zoom, an Optical Image Stabilizer (OIS) and an extended grip, making this light and small shooter capable of capturing magnificent images clearly, even at long range. In addition to its powerful zoom lens, the PowerShot SX100 IS digital camera is loaded with a full complement of performance and convenient features that camera aficionados have come to expect from Canon -- 8.0 megapixel resolution for crisp, vibrant images, a DIGIC III image processor for speed, power and performance, Canon's Genuine Face Detection Technology (with Face Selector capability), a large 2.5-inch LCD screen for easy image previews and reviews, and much more.
Though simple to operate, the PowerShot SX100 IS digital camera offers photo enthusiasts many creative possibilities, including the ability to shoot VGA movies of the very highest quality. In fact, the PowerShot SX100 IS provides two VGA 30 fps recording modes: Standard mode for maximum image quality, and the new 640 LP mode for maximum recording time and reduced file sizes. In either mode, the PowerShot SX100 IS can capture individual movies up to one hour or 4GB per clip, whichever comes first. Budding filmmakers simply switch to movie mode to capture video more easily than ever before, and then clearly view it on the bright 2.5-inch wide-angle LCD display or through a connected TV set or video monitor. Movie clips can also be uploaded to compatible personal computers for sharing on the World Wide Web.
Additionally, the PowerShot SX100 IS digital camera comes equipped with 19 shooting modes, ranging from fully automatic to fully manual, and easily accessible through an SLR-style mode dial on top of the camera. Shooting modes include Full Auto, Program, Shutter-Priority, Aperture-Priority and Manual, as well as special scene modes including Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Sports, and Kids & Pets.
Canon PowerShot SX100 IS Key Features
- Canon PowerShot SX100 IS Digital Camera Supplied Accessories:
- Two AA-Type Alkaline Batteries
- 16MB SD Memory Card SDC-16M
- Wrist Strap WS-200
- USB Interface Cable IFC-400PCU
- AV Cable AVC-DC300
- Digital Camera Solution CD-ROM
- Genuine Canon Lens with 10x Optical, 40x Digital Zoom
- The PowerShot SX100 IS digital camera's 10x zoom lens has an equivalent film focal length of 36-360 mm (f/2.8 at wide angle and f/4.3 at telephoto). Despite the extraordinary range of the zoom lens, it retracts securely into the camera when it is powered down. The optical zoom can be augmented by the camera's 4x digital zoom raising the maximum (35mm equivalent) focal length to that of a 1440mm lens.
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.
- Canon Optical Image Stabilizer (IS) Technology
- Unlike electronic image stabilizer systems that typically cause degradation of image quality, Canon's Lens Shift Optical IS system is based on the advancements made in the development and refinement of Canon's EF and video lenses. Reduced in size to fit ELPH scale, this Image Stabilizer provides up to three stops of camera shake correction in shutter speed equivalent.
The Canon Image Stabilizer uses gyroscopic sensors to detect motion and generate a corrective signal to reduce blur caused by camera movement. 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. Result-photos taken while zoomed in and at slower shutter speeds are not blurry, even without a tripod.
- 8.0 Megapixels
- The PowerShot SX100 IS features a 1/2.5-inch CCD image sensor with 8.0-megapixel resolution. The PowerShot SX100 IS digital camera captures 3264 x 2448 pixel images with exceptional detail and color fidelity.
- 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 SX100 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.
- ISO 1600 Sensitivity and Auto ISO Shift
- Thanks to the DIGIC III chip's more aggressive noise reduction, the SX100 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. What's more, the SX100 IS digital camera offers users the option of Canon's new Auto ISO Shift feature which, at the touch of a button, can accurately increase the ISO up to 800, further offsetting camera shake due to low-light or unsteady shooting conditions.
- 2.5" Color LCD Monitor With Wide Viewing Angle
- The SX100 IS digital camera features a 2.5-inch, 172,000-pixel color TFT LCD screen with a wide viewing angle making images easier to preview and review, and camera menus easier to read in a wide range of lighting conditions.
- Advanced Face Detection AF/AE/FE Technology and Red-Eye Correction
- With Canon's new Face Detection AF/AE/FE function, the camera can detect, lock on, and track multiple human faces in a scene. The face detection algorithm automatically prioritizes and selects faces (based on Canon's Intelligent Scene Analysis/iSAPS technology). It will then optimize the focus, exposure and flash to help ensure the best possible results for even easier picture taking moments. The result is flattering portraits and group shots where all of the subjects are in clearer focus and accurately exposed.
Compared to previous Canon cameras with Face Detection technology, the PowerShot SX100 IS digital camera adds several improvements, including the ability to use the function for movies as well as still images, the ability to detect faces that are further away or not aimed directly at the camera, and better control of flash exposure. Working with the camera's Face Detection technology, Canon's new Red-eye Correction feature helps detect and corrects, during playback mode, that bothersome by-product of flash photography. Images can be corrected manually while viewing photos on the LCD screen to help vanquish red-eye, once and for all. Because most images will no longer require laborious post-processing with a computer, the new in-camera Red-eye Correction feature is ideal for direct printing.
And new Face Selector AF enables you to lock on and follow a specific face. The selected subject is tracked wherever the face moves in the frame. Simply press the Face Selector Button; then the selected face is double-framed and tracked when the face moves in the frame.
- 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.
- DV-Quality Movies
- The PowerShot SX100 IS digital camera offers the ability to shoot VGA movies of the very highest quality. In fact, the SX100 IS provides two VGA 30 fps recording modes: Standard mode for maximum image quality, and the new 640 LP mode for maximum recording time and reduced file sizes. In either mode, the PowerShot SX100 IS can capture individual movies up to one hour or 4GB per clip, whichever comes first. Budding filmmakers simply switch to movie mode to capture video more easily than ever before, and then clearly view it on the bright 2.5-inch wide-angle LCD display or through a connected TV set or video monitor. Movie clips can also be uploaded to compatible personal computers for sharing on the World Wide Web.
- Direct Printing Plus
- You've taken the picture, reviewed it, like it and can not wait to print it out. What next? Direct Printing significantly expands the appeal of the PowerShot SX100 IS digital camera by making it simple, quick and convenient to produce high-quality photos without the need for a personal computer. Simply connect the SX100 IS directly to a Canon Compact or Canon Direct Photo Printer, as well as PictBridge compatible printer and press the blue lighted Print/Share button on the back of the SX100 IS and you are printing. True one touch printing it is really that simple. Beyond its Direct Print capability with Canon's Compact Photo Printers and acclaimed Canon Direct Photo Printers, the camera is also PictBridge compatible, an industry standard that offers the flexibility of direct printing to other brands of PictBridge compatible printers.
The PowerShot SX100 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.
- 18 Shooting Modes: Program, Auto and Manual Exposure
- The PowerShot SX100 IS digital camera features 18 shooting modes from fully automatic to fully manual. Accessible at the turn of a dial, these modes include Full Auto, Program, Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, Manual, Portrait, Landscape, Stitch Assist and Movie. Users can also select from 7 Special Scene modes including indoor Night Scene, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium and Indoor.
- 16:9 Widescreen Mode
- The PowerShot SX100 IS includes a widescreen resolution option, producing images that are perfect for your widescreen TV or computer monitor.
- 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.
- Vivid Green - Add vivid dimension to colors for extra impact.
- 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 SX100 IS has a maximum shutter speed of 1/2500 second and can capture still photos continuously at rates up to 1.3 fps.
- 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, Fluorescent H and Flash. Select the one that fits your environment. You can also create and store a custom setting by focusing on a piece of white paper under your light source.
- 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 at the center of the image.
- Manual Controls
- The Canon PowerShot SX100 IS's extensive array of manual controls befits its professional-level image quality. Knowledgeable users can tailor shutter speed, aperture, focus, flash output and exposure control to match the photographic conditions and their own creative vision.
- 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.
- Built-in Pop-up Flash
- Shooting with flash never slows down the action. The Built-in Pop-up Flash retracts when not in use, and you can opt to allow the flash to pop up and fire automatically whenever the camera detects a low ambient light situation. The camera's 3-mode built-in flash includes Red-Eye Reduction.
Canon PowerShot SX100 IS Specifications
- Type of Camera:
- Compact digital still camera with built-in flash and lens shift-type image stabilizer (IS) system, 10x optical zoom/ 4x digital zoom/ 40x combined zoom
- Image Capture Device:
- 8.3 million pixel gross, 1/2.5 inch charge coupled device (CCD), Approx. 8.0 Million Effective Pixels
- Lens:
- 6.0-60.0mm, f/2.8-f/4.3 zoom lens (equivalent to 36-360mm in 35mm format)
- Digital Zoom
- 4x
- Focus Range:
- Normal AF: 1.6 ft./50cm-Infinity (WIDE), 3.3 ft./1m-Infinity (TELE);
Macro: 0.39 in.-1.6 ft./1-50cm (W)
- Autofocus System
- TTL Autofocus
- Maximum Aperture
- f/2.8 (W), f/4.3 (T)
- Shutter Speed:
- 15-1/2500 sec. (settable in Tv and M)
- ISO Sensitivity:
- Auto, High ISO Auto, or User Set ISO 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 equivalent (Standard Output Sensitivity. Recommended Exposure Index)
- Exposure Control:
- Program AE, Manual; AE Lock, Safety Shift, Auto ISO Shift
- 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) and Custom White Balance
- Built-in Flash Modes:
- Auto, Auto w/ Red-Eye Reduction, Flash On, Flash On w/ Red-Eye Reduction, Flash Off; FE lock, Safety FE, Slow Synchro
- Flash Range (when sensitivity is set to ISO Auto):
- Normal: 1.6-9.8 ft./50cm - 3.0m (W), 1.6-6.6 ft./50cm-2.0m (T)
- Flash Recycling Time:
- 12 sec. or less (battery voltage=3.0V)
- Flash Exposure Compensation:
- +/-2 stops in 1/3-stop increments
- Shooting Modes:
- Auto, P, Av, Tv, M, Portrait, Landscape, Special Scene (Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium, Indoor, Night Scene), Kids & Pets, Night Snapshot, Stitch Assist, Movie
- Photo Effect:
- My Colors: Vivid, Neutral, Sepia, B/W, Custom Color
- Self-Timer:
- Activates shutter after an approx. 2-sec./10-sec. delay, Custom
- Continuous Shooting
- Normal: approx. 1.3 fps; AF: approx. 0.8 fps; LV: approx. 0.8 fps (Large/Fine)
- LCD Monitor:
- 2.5" low-temperature polycrystalline sillicon TFT color LCD with wide viewing angle, Approx. 172,000 pixels, LCD Coverage 100%
- Resolution (Recording Pixels):
- Still Image: 640 x 480 (Small), 1600 x 1200 (Medium 3), 2048 x 1536 (Medium 2), 2592 x 1944 (Medium 1), 3264 x 2448 (Large), 3264 x 1832 (Widescreen); Movie: 640 x 480 (30 fps/30 fps LP), 320 x 240 (30 fps) available up to 4GB or 60 minutes, 160 x 120 (3 minutes 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 - 445KB
- Med. 2/Fine - 893KB
- Med. 2/Super Fine - 1602KB
- Med. 1/Normal - 695KB
- Med. 1/Fine - 1395KB
- Med. 1/Super Fine - 2503KB
- Large/Normal - 980KB
- Large/Fine - 2060KB
- Large/Super Fine - 3436KB
- Wide-screen/Normal - 736KB
- Wide-screen/Fine - 1540KB
- Wide-screen/Super Fine - 2601KB
- Movie/640 x 480, 30 fps - 1920KB/sec.
- Movie/640 x 480, 30 fps LP - 960KB/sec
- Movie/320 x 240, 30 fps - 660KB/sec.
- Movie/160 x 120, 15 fps - 120KB/sec.
- Image Storage Capacity:
- Image Compression 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); Movie: AVI (Image: Motion JPEG; Audio: WAV (Stereo))
- Recording Media:
- SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card, MultiMediaCard, MMC Plus Card, HC MMC Plus Card
- Playback Modes:
- Still Image: Single, Magnification (approx. 2x-10x), Jump, Auto Rotate, Rotate, Resume, Histogram, Index (9 thumbnails), Sound Memos, Red-eye Correction, RAW playback, Resize, Image Inspection Tool
Movie: Normal Playback, Special Playback
- Erase Modes:
- Still Image: single image, all images
Movie: part of movie, all of 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:
- Size AA Alkaline battery (x2)
Size AA NiMH battery (NB4-300) (x2)
AC Adapter Kit ACK800 (optional)
- Shooting Capacity:
- Still Image*: approx. 140 shots (AA-size Alkaline Battery); approx. 400 shots (AA-size NiMH Battery)
Playback Time: Approx. 7 hours (AA-size Alkaline Battery); approx. 10 hours (AA-size NiMH Battery)
- Operating Range:
- Operating Temperature: 32 - 104º F (0 - 40º C); Operating Humidity 10 - 90%
- Dimensions (W x H x D):
- 4.28 x 2.81 x 1.84 in. (108.7 x 71.4 x 46.7mm)
- Weight (Camera body only):
- Approx. 9.35 oz. (265g)
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