Canon EOS 1000D + EF-S Digital Camera
August 29, 2008
Canon EOS 1000D Digital SLR Camera is one of the smallest as well as lightest EOS Digital model that have hit the digital SLR market of the UK. This model weighs just 450 grams and to add to it, the built is quiet ergonomic as well. Further, this camera is effectively protected by Canons unique dust prevention system known as EOS integrated system for cleaning. If you look forward to ponder over the quick starting up times as well as the accuracy in colour realisation exhibited by this digital camera, you could just end up with its exceptional DIGIC III processor that are generally used in advanced EOS models. This processor of Canon has the ability to lower the power consumption of a digital camera as well.
This digital camera is effectively qualified by a 10megapixel sensor of the CMOS type. The size of this optical sensor is 14.8 x 22.2 mm. This part of the camera is promptly complimented by a remarkable image stabiliser. The lens of this device explains a focal length of 1.6 x with EF lens. An autofocus system of up to 7 AF points stands tall in this sector followed by a number of AF modes. The shutter of this Canon digital Slr camera is a focal plane shutter that is electronically controlled, yielding speed ranging from 30 to 1/4000 sec. Bulb mode is also facilitated here. A number of shooting modes like portrait, landscape, close-up, etc combine with a handful of effects like monochrome or sepia to enhance the picture editting capabilities of this model.
Canon EOS 1000D Black Digital SLR Camera features a remarkable eye-level SLR viewfinder with fixed pentamirror in addition to its 2.5” diagonal sized TFT furnished by 230,000 pixels approximately. In the absence of any considerable internal memory, this camera holds the expansion slot for SD as well as SDHC memory cards. This digital SLR further features a pop up flash of convenience that offers auto, fill-in, rear curtain sync, red-eye reduction and off modes in its turn. A AF illuminator also shows its presence here.
Other Significant Aspects of this Camera
Aperture priority, Shutter Priority and Manual Exposure Setting
Colour Video Support
Hot Shoe Flash Terminal
ISO 100, ISO 200, ISO 400, ISO 800, ISO 1600 and ISO auto
RAW, JPEG and JPEG + RAW still image formats
Automatic, Presets and Custom modes of White Balance
Canon LP-E5 Battery
Dimensions: 6.2 x 9.8 x 12.6 cm
Canon Power Shot S5IS Digital Camera
June 3, 2008
The Canon Power Shot S5IS 8MP Digital Camera is indeed special for Canon that they have meticulously designed and presented it in front of the world under circumstances of cutthroat competition from Panasonic and a few others. The photo giants have designed their latest version of the prototype, the Powershot S1 IS, with utmost care and circumspective updations. They have meticulously restricted the model to 12 x zoom range when some of their counterparts are coming up with models ranging to 15 x and 18 x frequently. They have reduced the continuous shooting speed for better performance levels and included a couple of new features like red-eye removal on playback and Face detecting AF mode. In addition, the presence of a Hot Shoe Flash Connector substantiates Canon's craving for a masterpiece.
Augmentation all the Way
The Power Shot S5 IS comes with a wider LCD screen of 2.5 inches to its ancestor's (S3IS) 2.0" screen. ISO sensitivity has also increased here (1600 as against S3IS's 800). The movie clip limit also lies subject to an increase, 4.0GB to latter’s 1.0GB and the 1/2.5 sensor comes with a resolution of 8 MP, an increase of 2 million pixels. In spite of all these augmentations, the new arrival comes a bit heavier than its precedent.
A collage of advanced technologies
The Canon Power Shot Black Digital Camera touts of an exceptional processor in the DIGIC III image processor, renowned for its expertise in the brilliant detailing of both still images and movies. The Ultrasonic Motor Drive aspect of the model enables fast zooming. The augmented high-resolution screen enables the camera realizes crisp, lifelike pictures even at lowly lit environments. Thanks to the Night Mode Display. The Hot Shoe advantage of the model promises its compatibility to any of those outstanding external flashes of Canon.
Focusing on the future
Advanced focusing features enhance the output quality of the Power Shot S5IS. The model is fortified with the TTL Autofocus device. This makes it equivalent to a 35 mm zoom lens. The Super Macro feature of the focusing part lending a close up of an object situated 10 cm from the lens is remarkable. The shutter speed of the camera is also worth mentioning here at 15-1/3200 sec.
Flash and Power features
The Canon Power Shot S5 IS Digital Camera comes with a built in flash with a number of supporting features like on/off, Auto, Auto/Red Eye Reduction, flash on w/Red Eye Reduction, FE Lock and Safety FE. It can work in a normal basis as well as in a macro mode. The recycling time here is lesser than 12 seconds. The power comes to the camera from 4 AA sized alkaline batteries or 4 NiMH AA sized rechargeable ones.
| General Info | |
|---|---|
| Brand | Canon |
| Model | Canon Powershot S5IS |
| Colours available | Black |
| Weight in Kg | 450 kg |
| Resolution | 8.0 million pixels |
| Screen size | 2.5" |
| Lens type | 36-432 mm zoom lens |
| Storage media | SD/ SDHC/ MMC compatible Supplied with 32 MB card |
| Optical zoom | 12 x |
| Digital zoom | 4 x |
| Viewfinder | Yes |
| Focusing | Auto and Manual |
| Shooting modes | Several |
| Shutter speed | 15-1/3200 sec |
| Connectivity | USB 2.0 Hi-Speed, A/V out |
| Sensor type | 1 / 2.5" CCD type |
| File format | Still: JPEG, Video: AVI |
| Battery type | Alkaline AA or NiMH batteries |
| Battery life | 450 shots and 12 hours playback |
| Warranty | 1 years |
| Features | |
| Built-in Flash | Yes |
| Video function | Yes |
| Voice recording | Yes |
| Timer | Yes |
| LCD display | Yes |
| Face recognition technology | Yes |
| Night shot | Yes |
| PictBridge compatibility | Yes |
| Scene selection modes | Yes |
| Red-eye reduction mode | Yes |
Canon Powershot SX100 IS Digital Camera
May 28, 2008
The Canon Powershot SX100 8MP Digital Camera effectively captures the finest detail required for sublime quality poster-sized prints. It also enables creative cropping. The stylish silver or black version presents a 10 x optical zoom along with an innovated technological feature that annuls the effect of camera shake. In spite of an array of advanced features exhibited here, the model tends to be user friendly to the core with a vivid interface symbolized by explicitly labelled buttons and control panel/dial.
Ready for a face off with odds
The Canon Powershot SX100 IS can help in choosing a desired subject from a collection of 35 identified faces. Face Detection Technology, a concept that automatically sets exposure, flash and the optimal focus to realize this, stands tall here along with a striking red eye correction feature. The model, with a dynamic 2.5” wide screen also extends a choice of 18 distinct shooting modes among which, a manual control zone is also present. This helps it achieve better shots even in dimly lit environments. Further, the camera also includes an in-camera colour editing for images and movies. The Optical Picture Stabiliser that counters camera shake effects is combined with a smart feature called ISO 1600 to enable flash-free shots even in low light conditions, reducing blurring risk.
Flash and White Balance
The Canon Powershot SX100 IS Compact Digital Camera sports an integrated, external flash with a pop up action. There is an exposure lock and 3 levels of manual power adjustment. The two modes present are auto and manual on/off. The camera employs the TTL type white balancing feature with a range of setting options to select.
Other impressive features
- The Powershot SX100 IS comes with a closest focusing distance of 1 cm from the lens and allows continuous and single modes of AF too
- An AF lock option to lock the focus on a particular object
- The model has the capability to record VGA movies with sound. An optional Long Play VGA mode can be selected for enhanced compression that enables the storage of doubled amounts to usual video data in a memory card
- PictBridge feature for advanced printing by accessing a feature-supporting printer
- The camera is powered by a DIGIC III image processor with iSAPS technology
- Selection from a range of 25 languages including English as the menu language
- 2 x - 10 x playback zoom
- 60 sec per image sound memo facilitated
Power and Warranty
This Canon Silver Digital Camera receives its power from a couple of AA sized alkaline batteries that holds a life of 140 shots and 420 min of playback. An optional set of 2 NiMH rechargeable batteries with 400 shot and 600 min playback life is also available in the market. The product carries a manufacturer's warranty of 12 months commencing from the first day of purchase.
| General Info | |
|---|---|
| Brand | Canon |
| Model | Canon Powershot SX100 IS |
| Colours available | Black and Silver |
| Weight | 266 g |
| Resolution | 8.0MP |
| Screen size | 2.5" |
| Lens type | 6.0-60.0 mm zoom lens |
| Storage media | 32 MB memory card supplied, SD, SDHC, MMC, MMC plus, HCMMC Plus |
| Optical zoom | Yes |
| Digital zoom | Yes |
| Focusing | Auto/Manual |
| Shooting modes | Multi |
| Shutter speed | 1/60 - 1/2500 sec |
| Connectivity | Hi-Speed USB and A/V output |
| Sensor type | 1 / 2.5" CCD |
| File format | JPEG compression, EXIF 2.2, Design rule for file system, DPOF |
| Battery type | 2 x Size-AA alkaline or NiMH |
| Battery life | 140 shots or 420 min playback |
| Warranty | 12 months |
| Features | |
| Built-in Flash | Yes |
| External flash | Yes |
| Video function | Yes |
| Voice recording | Yes |
| Timer | 2 or 10 sec or custom |
| LCD display | Yes |
| Face recognition technology | Yes |
| Wrist strap | No |
| Night shot | Yes |
| PictBridge compatibility | Yes |
| Scene selection modes | Yes |
| Red-eye reduction mode | Yes |
Canon Ixus 65 Digital Camera
February 27, 2008
leader Canon and it is the Canon Ixus 65 Digital Camera. With super design and exceptional quality pictures guaranteed, Canon NB-4L battery or 1 x Li-Ion rechargeable battery with a capacity of 760 mAh supports this camera.
With resolution of 6.0 mega pixels, this camera has colour support, CCD optical sensor type, 1 / 2 .5” optical sensor type, 4x digital zoom and 6,200,000 pixels totally.
Shooting modes are commendable with
• Frame movie mode
• Portrait mode
• Stitch assist
• Fire works
• Under water
• Indoor
• Foliage
• Beach
• Kids
• Pets
• Digital macro
• Night shots
• Snow-features
Special effects are enhanced with black & white, sepia, positive, neutral, vivid, my colours, colour accent and colour swap. White balance presets are fluorescent, cloudy, tungsten light, and daylight to provide the memorable snap shots. Digital video formats are appreciative with AVI, still image format of JPEG, and continuous shooting speed of 2.1 frames per second.
16 MB flash –SD Memory card for flash memory and Multi media card and SD memory card for supported flash memory are unique to this elegant Canon Ixus 65 Digital Camera. Built-in camera flash with modes of fill-in mode, slow synchro, auto mode, flash off mode and built-in red-eye reduction in effective flash range of 0.5 m to 3.5 m and AF illuminator features create perfection in the images captured.
Superior quality zoom lens is used in the device. The focal length equivalent to 35 mm camera is 35-105 mm. The other remarkable lens features like automatic focus adjustment, Auto focus TTL contrast detection, 3X optical zoom and zoom adjustment with motorised drive create the perfection in images, one always dreamt of.
Self timer delay can be adjusted to 2 seconds or 10 seconds, and additional features like audio recording, direct print, USB 2.0 compatibility, built-in speaker, RGB primary colour filter, auto power save, digital noise reduction, digital image rotation, date/time stamp, DPOF support, brightness control, camera orientation detection, PictBridge support, histogram display, AE, AF & FE locks, and MOTION PRINT are unique features of this smart Ixus 65. LCD display in TFT Matrix 3” and 173,000 pixels resolution lend creative support to the memorable image creation.
Connector type is 1 x USB, and1 x video/audio output and the device also supports a single expansion slot and that is the SD memory card slot.
Canon PowerShot S3 IS Digital Camera Review
January 19, 2008
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 digital 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 latest canon digital 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
