Even if Canon A550 does not come with Image stabilization and no Exposure bracketing, it has a real-image zoom optical viewfinder, Pictbridge, USB 2.0 Hi-Speed Connectivity and A/V output (PAL/NTSC switchable). Furthermore, the performance of this robust and ergonomic compact digicam is impressing: responsive, easy to use, good metering and natural colour, sharp and noise free photos at low ISO, some noise at high ISO. If no flash is used, the start-up time is around 1.5 seconds, and shot to shot time 1.7 seconds. Now wait a minute…. Where is the panoramic stitch assist mode? This time Canon forgot about it and I’m sorry to see this.

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Manual, Macro, Movie
• Scene modes: Portrait, Landscape, Night snapshot, Indoor, Kids & Pets, Movie, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Night scene
• Effects: Vivid, Neutral, Sepia, Black & White, Custom Colour
• Movie Mode: AVI [Motion JPEG compression], WAVE sound, 640×480 at 30/15 fps (L), 320×240 at 60/30/15 fps (M), 160×120 at 15 fps (S)
• Metering: Evaluative, Centre-weighted average, Spot (centre)
• White balance: Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Custom
• Flash Mode: Auto, Forced on/off, Slow sync, Red-eye reduction, Flash exposure lock

Technical Data:
• 2.0 inch LCD
• 7.1 Megapixels
• 4x optical zoom + 4x digital zoom
• Focal Length: 5.8-23.2mm (35-140 35 mm equiv)
• Aperture: F2.6-5.5
• ISO Range: 80, 100, 200, 400, 800
• Flash Range: 5cm-3.5m (wide) / 45cm-2.2m (tele)
• Focus Range: 5cm – infinity
• Exposure Compensation: +/- 2EV in 1/3EV increments
• File Format: JPEG (Exif 2.2)
• Shutter speed: 15-1/2000 sec
• Self timer: 2 or 10 sec, custom
• Continuous shooting: 1.4fps until memory card is full
• SD/SDHC/MMC card
• 2 x AA alkaline batteries or NiMH compatible

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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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“The PowerShot Digital ELPH line of cameras has always been characterized by the sleek contoured look, the full array of features and the extraordinary picture quality they deliver,” states Yukiaki Hashimoto, senior vice president and general manager of the consumer imaging group at Canon U.S.A., Inc. “These newest Digital ELPH cameras continue that tradition of innovation, eye appeal, ease of use and imaging excellence, and will no doubt continue to delight our users and confound our competitors.”
Similar in design to its 5.0 megapixel predecessor (SD30 Digital ELPH model), the SD40 Digital ELPH series offers four new elegant shell tones in Twilight Sepia, a dark rich brown with gold accents; Precious Rose, a blushing pink attention-getter; Noble Blue, a shade worthy of the finest designer navy suit and, the soft yet solid sophistication of Olive Grey.
With Canon’s new Face Detection AF/AE technology (working in concert with Canon’s 9-point Autofocus system), all three of these Digital ELPH models can detect, lock on and track up to nine human faces in a scene simply by pressing the shutter button halfway. But, no Image stabilization and no Viewfinder.

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Manual, Portrait, Landscape, Night Snapshot, Color Accent, Color Swap, Stitch Assist, Movie, Scene
• Scene Modes: Kids & Pets, Indoor, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium, Underwater
• My Colors: Vivid, Neutral, Sepia, B&W, Positive Film, Lighter Skin Tone, Darker Skin Tone, Vivid Blue, Vivid Green, Vivid Red, Custom Color
• Metering: Evaluative, Center-weighted average, Spot
• Flash Modes: Auto, Manual Flash on / off, Slow sync, Red-eye reduction
• White Balance: Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Custom

Technical Data:
• 1.8-inch LCD
• 7.1 Megapixel
• 2.4x optical zoom
• 38-90 mm equivalent lens
• Aperture: F3.2-5.4
• Focus distance: closest 10cm
• File Formats: JPEG (Exif 2.2) ,DCF, DPOF
• ISO Range: 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600
• Flash Range: 30cm – 2.0m (wide) / 1.3m (tele)
• Exposure Compensation: +/- 2EV in 1/3 stop increments
• Shuttter Speed: 15-1/1600 sec
• Continuous shooting: 1.6fps
• SD / SDHC / MMC card compatible
• Li-ion battery NB-4 Rechargeable

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Though it doesn’t have the manual control that some of the other A-series cameras boast, there are 14 exposure modes to get creative with, as well as Stitch-Assist mode for capturing panoramas, a Movie mode, and a Continuous mode for capturing up to 2.3 frames per second. If you’re looking to travel light on a budget and still bring home great pictures, the A430 or the above A460 (the main difference is 5MP instead of 4MP) would be a choice.

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Manual, Super Macro, Panoramic, Movie
• Scene Modes: Panoramic, Portrait, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Aquarium, Indoor, Kids&Pets, Night Snapshot, Fireworks
• Movie Mode: VGA (10 fps), QVGA (30 fps) or QQVGA (15 fps for up to 3 minutes)
• Effects: Color Accent, Color Swap, Vivid, Neutral, Sepia, Black & White, Positive Film, Lighter Skin Tone, Darker Skin Tone, Curtom Color
• White balance: with seven modes
• Metering: Evaluative, Center-Weighted, and Spot

Technical Data:
• 1.8 inch LCD
• 4.0 megapixels
• 4x optical zoom + 3.6x digital
• ISO range: 64-400
• Exposure compensation: +/-2EV in 1/3-step increments
• Start up: 2.2-seconds
• Shot to shot: 1.78 seconds
• Shutter lag: 0.520 – 0.590 seconds
• Shutter speed: 1-1/2000
• Continuous Speed: 2.31 fps (2 shots)
• Built-in flash with six operating modes
• AiAF through-the-lens autofocus
• AF Assist light for low-light focusing
• Real-image optical viewfinder (not very accurate)
• SD/MMC card storage
• 2x AA-size batteries

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Like all Canons, the PictBridge standard enables any digital camera that supports PictBridge to connect and print to any PictBridge compatible printer. This is the first time I’m not going to put a good word for a Canon camera. If you’re an expert photographer with enough skill to shoot well enough to pick apart technical image quality, you’re not likely to own this camera.

From CNET editors’ review: “For a camera with a maximum sensitivity of ISO 400, the A460′s images were awfully noisy. The automatic white balance produced a drastic yellow cast under our lab’s tungsten lights, though the tungsten preset proved very neutral, even more so than the manual white balance. We also noticed some purple fringing around bright highlights, and while the images weren’t the sharpest we’ve ever seen, they were on a par in that respect with other cameras in this price range.”

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Manual, Super Macro, Movie
• Scene Modes: Panoramic, Portrait, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Aquarium, Indoor, Kids&Pets, Night Snapshot, Fireworks
• White Balance: Auto, 5 presets or Custom
• My Colors: Vivid Color, Neutral, Sepia, B&W, and Custom color
• Metering: Evaluative, Center-weighted average or Spot
• Movie mode: with sound, 640×480/320×240 (1GB max per clip)

Technical Data:
• 2.0-inch LCD
• 5.0 Megapixels
• 4x Optical Zoom
• ISO up to 400
• Exposure compensation: +/-2EV in 1/3-step increments
• 5 point AF system
• Start up: 1.7-seconds
• Shot to shot: 1.5 seconds
• Shutter lag: 0.5 second to 1.2 seconds
• Shutter speeds:15 to 1/2000 second
• Continuos shooting: 47 full-resolution images in 31 seconds for a rate of 1.5fps
• Secure Digital/MMC card storage
• 2x AA-size batteries

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The stylish vertical design in stainless steel houses plenty of premium advancements including Optical Image Stabilizer Technology, DIGIC III Image Processor, Face Detection Technology and Red-eye Correction. It’s also equipped with a built-in lens cover and tough new scratch-resistant, anti-reflective coating on the LCD screen. The built-in lens cap opens when the camera is turned on and closes when the camera is turned off. Powershot TX1 includes a Super Macro function like all the newest Canon digital cameras. In conclusion, TX1 is different than other powershots because of the ingenious (hmm not very practical) vertical design, the powerful movie mode, and less shooting modes.

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Manual, Movie
• Scene Modes: Panoramic, Portrait, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Aquarium, Indoor, Night Snapshot
• Effects: Color Accent, Color Swap
• Movie Mode: 1280 x 720 HD movies at 30 fps with Face Detection, stereo sound and 1080i component video playback
Technical Data:
• 1.8-inch Vari-Angle LCD
• 7.1 megapixel
• 10x optical zoom + 4x digital
• ISO range: 80-1600
• SD memory card
• Li-Ion rechargeable battery

Tags: Canon PowerShot TX1, canon, canon powerhot, compact digital camera, digital camera, camera, image stabilisation, red-eye correction, face detection, super macro, 7MP, 10x optical zoom

Their design of these 2 digital cameras is user friendly and well-built, the pictures are great, and they’re easy to shoot. Comparing to A530 and A540, A630 and A640 equips with Vari-angle 2.5 inch LCD screen that flips outward and rotates which allows users to take photos for themselves or some close up subjects much easier. At the highest size and finest mode you can see your subjects finest details and also obtain high quality A4 and A3 prints. The optical viewfinder helps to save battery life by turning off the LCD display. Red-eye continues to be a problem in the Canon A series and noise at high ISO. No sign of image stabilisation and dust reduction to these models.

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: auto, program auto, shutter priority, aperture priority, continuous shooting, macro, full manual
• Scene Modes: Portrait, Landscape, and Night Scene + Special Scene (Sports, Foliage, Show, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium, Underwater, Indoor, Kids and Pets, Night Snapshot) + Panorama
• Effects: My Colors Mode and Color Swap Mode
• White balance: Auto, Cloudy, Daylight, Fluorescent, Incandescent, Manual
• Metering: Spot, Center-Weighted, and Evaluative
• Movie Mode: 640×480 (VGA) movies at 3 fps up to 36 minutes long (still limited…)

Technical Data:
• 2.5 inch LCD
• 10 megapixels A640, 8 megapixels A630
• 4x optical zoom + 4x digital
• 35-140mm (35mm equivalent) lens
• Aperture: f/2.8 to f/4.1
• Power-on: 1.4 sec
• Shutter Lag: 0.060 sec
• Shutter Speed: 1/2.500 – 15 sec
• ISO range: 80-800
• 9 point AiAF autofocus system
• Self-timer: 2, 10 sec, custom timer
• SD Card memory storage
• 4x AA batteries
• Optional Accessories: Waterproof Case, Conversion Lens Adaptor LA-DC58F, Tele-Conversion lens (1.75x) TC-DC58N, Wide Converter (0.7x) WC-DC58N, AC Adaptor Kit ACK-600 (contains CA-PS500), High Power Flash HF-DC1

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Canon‘s acclaimed G-Series has a new top-of-the-line model: a matte black, retro-hip design houses impressive capabilities and top core specifications, loaded with Canon‘s latest and most advanced technologies, including an Optical Image Stabilizer for clear shots. Also, Canon‘s new SR coating technology (used here for the first time in a digital camera) virtually eliminates ghosting and Canon’s new Face Detection AF/AE finds all the faces in the frame and sets the most suitable focus point, when the shutter button is depressed half-way.

The PowerShot G7 is compatible with many shooting accessories, not only wide and tele converter lenses, a waterproof case and High-Power Flash designed for all of the PowerShot models, but also Speedlite EX External Flash series that is compatible with all EOS series SLR cameras.
Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Manual and Custom, plus Panoramic mode
• Scene Modes: Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Sports, Foliage, Show, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium, Underwater, Indoor, Kids and Pets, Night Snapshot, Color Accent, Color Swap (My Colors menu for image saturation and color adjustment)
• White balance: : Auto, Cloudy, Daylight, Fluorescent, Incandescent, Manual (a total of 9 possibilities)
• Metering: Spot, Center-Weighted, and Evaluative

Technical Data:
• 2.5-inch LCD
• 10.0 megapixel
• 6x optical zoom
• 35-210mm lens
• Max Aperture: 2.8
• Shutter speed: 1/2000-15 sec
• Shutter lag: 0.55 sec
• Shoot to shoot speed: 1.54 sec
• ISO range: 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 + a special ISO 3200 mode
• Recording: 30 fps for recording up to 1 hour or 4GB and high-resolution movie clips in XGA at 15 fps (1024 x 768 pixels) up to 3 minutes
• Self timer: 2, 10 sec
• SD/MMC memory card
• LiIon Battery (around 200 shoots)

Tags: Canon Powershot G7, canon powershot, canon, 10MP, 6x optical zoom, image stabilisation, full manual digital camera, digital camera, camera, high quality image, high performance camera, face detection

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi (400D) is a thrilling new digital SLR, successor to the current EOS 350D (Digital Rebel XT) that offers easy operation and affordability in a lightweight ergonomic body. It’s based on the second generation DIGIC II Image Processor, compatible with more than 50 EF and EF-S lenses. This camera has a high-precision 9-point AF system for speedy and accurate focusing in any situation. With the pop-up build-in-flash (recycling time 3 seconds) the Digital Rebel XTi (400D) can obtain consistent flash exposures even if the subject contains radical changes in color reflectivity. You can take pictures with different settings regarding color, saturation, sharpness and contrast and in different modes such as Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral, Faithful and Monochrome and Custom. The white balance menu works as in all Canon cameras: auto, daylight, overcast situations, indoor tungsten, fluorescent, custom. The dust reduction system is new at this model; for the DOF you have a depth-of-field enable button and another bonus is the possibility to manually focus. Another interesting thing is the remote control with remote switch RS-60E3 or wireless remote controllers RC-1/RC-5. Redeye works as it should. There are no many changes from Digital Rebel XT to Digital Rebel XTi, but it’s definitely a good camera for professional photographers. I would say, it stands out for the image quality given by the sensor (well-exposed pictures, with pleasing colours and minimal noise).
The camera is compatible with all external flashes, but it works best with the 220EX, 430EX, and 580EX Speedlites. For macro shooting you may want to check out the MR-14EX ring lite or the MT-24EX twin lite.
Technical Data:
• Startup time: 0.2 seconds
• Image recording with 1/4000 sec speed for 30 seconds, 3 fps for 27 consecutive shots in JPEG mode and 10 in RAW
• 10.1 megapixel CMOS sensor
• 2.5 inch LCD (The most noticeable change from Rebel XT)
• ISO sensitivity from 100-1600
• Metering: 35-zone evaluative, center-weighten average, partial metering
• CD card for picture storage
• Image compression: JPEG and RAW
• With One battery NB-2LH lithium-ion you get up to 500 shoots when no flash used

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Canon PowerShot S3 IS was introduced at the Photo Marketing Association Trade Show in February 2006. The Canon S3 has some great features that make it the camera of the year: a 12x optical zoom lens to go with its 6.1-megapixel, 1/2.5-inch CCD and Digic II image processor, also, image stabilization. Just like on the S2, the S3′s lens cap seems to come off pretty easily. This model improves upon its predecessor with a new CCD that is designed to suppress noise and offers ISO sensitivities up to 800 (a fair amount of noise in landscape photos taken just after sunset and in close-ups taken during daylight in macro mode). Like the S2 before it, the PowerShot S3 has a redeye problem. While shooting, you can use the zoom feature with no added noise to the movie; it’s very quiet. Image stabilization is still active when shooting a movie. One interesting feature, called movie snap, allows you to trigger the shutter to capture stills while shooting a movie. It’s Fast and responsive, with a comfortable design. The 2-inch LCD screen flips outward and rotates. Unfortunately, the camera still lacks raw format support. Very good colour accuracy and saturation, as Canon usually does, including My Color Modes as described in previous models. Autofocus occurs quickly for the most part, although a sometimes focus hadn’t locked before capture. A cheap dSLR will provide better performance, and a moderately priced one will deliver better photo quality. But the Canon PowerShot S3 IS‘s combination of features, performance and relatively compact design certainly gives superzoom fans a compelling alternative. However, too few changes over the S2 IS.
Technical Data:
• Uses a 6 Megapixel CCD (instead of 5MP)
• New ISO range of 80 – 800 (instead of 50 – 400); lower noise than previous sensor but still high at 800
• Slightly larger and heavier than S2
• New Sports scene mode
• 2 inch LCD display (versus 1.8″)
• Optical Zoom: 12X
• Media Slots: SD Card
• Spot AE point (Center, AF point)
• Continuous shooting (Standard, high speed)
• Self-timer (2, 10 secs, custom timer)
• SuperMacro mode
• S3 IS’s Four AA rechargeable batteries lasted for around 550 shots on a single charge.
• Optional accessories: Wide-angle lens, Telephoto lens, Close-up lens, Conversion lens adapter / lens hood, External slave flash

Tags: canon powershot s3, canon s3, canon, 12x optical zoom, powershot s3, image stabilization, 6 MP, super macro