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This is the first Canon wireless digicam, in Europe called IXUS wireless. With wireless direct printing using the SD430 digital camera, you are freed from the trouble of connecting your camera to a printer with a USB cable each time they want to print; instead, you have Wireless Print Adapter included for PictBridge printers. Canon SD430 (an impressive little camera) comes with optical viewfinder (real-image zoom, 79% accuracy). If the built-in flash does not satisfy you, external Flash from Canon is available: High Power Flash HF-DC1 As for the picture quality, this compact camera pictures generally have low distortion (sometimes chromatic aberration at wide settings), vibrant and accurate colors as well as good white balance.

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Manual, Digital Macro, Portrait, Night Snapshot, Scene (Kids & Pets, Indoor, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks), My Colors (9 settings), Stitch Assist (for panoramic shots), Movie
• Effects: Vivid, Neutral, Low Sharpening, Sepia, Black & White, My Colors (9 settings)
• Flash Modes: Auto, Manual Flash On / Off
• Drive Modes: Single, Continuous (Approx. 2.1 fps), Self-Timer
• Movie Mode: 640 x 480, 30 at 15fps, 320 x 240 at 60/30/15fps, 160 x 120 at 15fps, with the highest limit at 1GB, AVI (Motion JPEG) with WAVE sound
• Metering: Evaluative, Centre-weighted average, Spot (centre)
• White Balance: Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Custom

Technical Data:
• 2.0 inch LCD
• 5 Megapixels
• 3x optical zoom + 4x digital zoom
• Focal Length: 5.8 - 17.4 mm (35mm film equivalent: 35 - 105mm)
• Aperture: f/2.8 - f/4.9
• ISO Range: 50, 100, 200, 400
• Focus Range: Macro: 3cm
• Flash Range: 50cm - 3.5m (Wide) / 2.0m (Tele)
• Exposure Compensation: +/- 2 EV in 1/3 stop increments
• Shutter Speed: 15 – 1/1.500 sec
• Shot to Shot time: 1.78 sec
• Power-on Time: 1.2 sec
• Self Timer: 2, 20 sec
• SD memory card storage + 16MB internal memory
• Rechargeable Li-ion Battery NB-4L (150 shots)

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