Canon is the company that has introduced only quality products to the souk and has got a new model of digital camera for you and it has been named as the Canon PowerShot S3 IS Digital Camera. This unit is featured with lots of features that an advanced camera must posses. The image sensor type of this camera is CCD. This is the latest technology in the digital cameras that allows you to take clear pictures. The resolution of this unit is 6.2 mega pixels. These units come under the type of standard point and shoot cameras.

ZOOMING
Zooming option in this digital camera comes as optical zoom and digital zoom, the optical zooming capacity of this Canon PowerShot S3 IS Digital Camera is 12x and the digital zoom is 4x. The focal length of this unit is 6 to 72 mm. The image quality of this camera is rated under its resolutions. The resolutions that this digi cam could support are 640 x 480 pixels, 2816 x 2112 pixels, 2272 x 1704 pixels and 1600 x 1200 pixels.

VIDEO
The video resolutions of this camera are 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA) and 640 x 480 pixels (VGA). The video speed supported is 30 frames per second. The maximum movie length depends on the memory of the camera. The video format of this camera is AVI and motion JPEG.  The exposure control of this camera comes as,
• Aperture:  f2.7/f3.5 (w/t)
• Shutter speed: 15 - 1/3200 sec

White balance in a main concept while taking photographs or videos and the white balance options supported by the device are:
• Auto
• Manual
• Daylight / Sunny (Preset)
• Cloudy (Preset)
• Fluorescent (Preset)
• Tungsten (Preset)
• Halogen (Preset)

The memory storage type is done through the multimedia card and SD card. The compression modes are fine, super fine and normal. The compression types supported are JPEG, EXIF 2.2, DPOF 1.1.

A flash unit is made built-in in this Canon Digital Camera. The flash functions supported are,
• Flash Off
• Auto Flash
• Red-eye Reduction Flash

For view finder, this has got an optical view finder and also an LCD panel. The LCD panel size is 2 inches. The interfaces that this unit has got are universal serial bus and video out interface. The power supply of this unit is through batteries 4 x AA Batteries. The battery life is 110 images.

OTHER FEATURES
• In built microphone
• In built speaker
• Tripod mount

DIMENSIONS
The dimensions of this Canon Power Shot S3 IS Digital Camera are,
• Height : 7.8 cm
• Width : 11.3 cm
• Depth : 7.5 cm
• Weight : 410 grams