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Canon Digital IXUS 500 Digital Camera Review

October 6, 2006

In the world of photography, the uses of digital camera have extended a lot. Canon – one of the most reputed names in the field of imaging techniques has always turned up with a range of highly advanced digital cameras that helps you to take really good images you can treasure for a life time. The new Canon Digital IXUS 500 digital camera is one of their advanced technology integrated digital camera. This stylish yet slick digital camera allows you to take the best images even if you are not a professional photographer.

The technical aspects of the device

The new Canon Digital IXUS 500 digital camera that come with a stainless steel metal body is a 5 mega pixel camera with a CCD sensor of size 1/1.8 inches. This new digital camera supports a digital zoom of 4x and an optical zoom of 3x. This digital camera features an integrated flash that also supports various flash modes like Fill-in mode, slow, auto mode, flash OFF mode and built in red-eye reduction and the effective flash range lies between 0.3m and 3.5 m. The still images taken are stored in JPEG file formats. Another speciality about the Canon Digital IXUS 500 digital camera is that it can also record some video clips and supports continuous shooting speed up to 15 frames per second. The digital video images are stored in AVI file format. The maximum video length supported by the camera is 180 seconds only. The Canon Digital IXUS 500 digital camera comes integrated with a TFT active matrix LCD display screen at the backside of the camera with a size of 1.5 inches. This display screen is the optical viewfinder and the display format supported is 118,000 pixels.

Additional features supported

  1. Auto focus

  2. Self timer

  3. Integrated microphone

  4. Integrated speakers

  5. Date and time stamp

  6. Audio recording

  7. Auto power save

  8. Digital image rotation

  9. Camera orientation detection

  10. PictBridge support

  11. RGB primary colour filter

  12. DPOF support

  13. Display brightness control

  14. Tripod mount

Physical details

  1. Height: 5.7 cm

  2. Width: 8.7 cm

  3. Depth: 2.8 cm

  4. Weight: 200 grams

Supported connectors

  1. USB

  2. Composite video/audio output

The Canon Digital IXUS 500 digital camera runs with the support of a proprietary Lithium battery that supports a battery life of 190 hours.

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