Canon PowerShot A80 4MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom
List Price: $449.99
Details
- Twisting LCD for shots at any look for; up to 3-minute videos with sound; 9-point AiAF
- Like-minded with Type I CompactFlash memory cards; includes 32 MB card
- Powered by 4 AA batteries (alkalines included, rechargeables recommended); connects to PCs and Macs via USB 1.1
Description
Featuring a luxurious-tech design with aluminum front cover and metallic handgrip, the Canon PowerShot A80 combines a judgement of both the modern and the traditional. Despite its entry-level tag in Canon's digital lineup, the easy-to-operate, 4-megapixel PowerShot A80 is a surprisingly campaigner model with sophisticated optics and manual controls. It likewise features a twisting LCD screen. Optics and Resolution
The PowerShot A80 offers a 4-megapixel CCD sensor that produces images up to 2272 x 1704 pixels for photo-superiority 11 x 14 inch enlargements. Other resolution modes cover 1600 x 1200, 1024 x 768, and 640 x 480. The 3x zoom lens has a centred length of 7.8-23.4mm (equivalent to 38-114mm in 35mm photography). It also incorporates a 3.6x digital zoom for a unalloyed 11x zoom. The PowerShot A80 also features Canon's nine-point AiAF organization for focusing accuracy, shutter speeds of 15 to 1/1,500 in the second place, and fast sequence shooting at a rate of 2.2 frames per understudy (fps).
Movie Mode
In addition to taking still photos, the A80 can likewise record up to 3 minutes of video with sound. It has two resolution settings: 320 x 240, and 160 x 120. You can history for up to 3 minutes per clip in either resolution. Note that you cannot use the visual zoom when in movie mode. The included 32 MB recollection card can hold 91 seconds of video at the highest location.
More Features
The PowerShot A80 has a 1.5-inch variable-angle LCD up on that gives you even more shooting options. Move around the LCD monitor 180 degrees toward the front of the camera and the A80 whim display your choice of a mirror image or a non-reversed image to give you a true view of your actual shot.
Gift a wider scope for photographic experimentation, Canon has also included directions, aperture priority, and shutter priority exposure modes. These modes are supported by a metering plan that boasts evaluative, center-weighted average and speckle options.
Canon's DIGIC (DIGital Imaging Core) processor ensures top-hole color rendition and white balance for every shot, as rise as super-fast auto focusing, noise-free imaging, and enlightened flash exposure performance.
- Shooting Modes: Auto, Resourceful (P, Av, Tv, M, Custom 1, Custom 2), Programmed Image Supervise Zone, Image (Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Stitch Support, Movie)
- White Balance Control: Auto, Pre-set (Daylight, Foggy, Tungsten, Fluorescent or Fluorescent H) or Custom
- Built-in flash with vehicle, red-eye reduction, on/of, and slow sync modes; 10-second recycle in good time always
- Maximum Aperture: f/2.8/ 8.0 (W), f/4.9/ 8.0 (T)
- Photo Effects: Detailed Color, Neutral Color, Low Sharpening, Sepia, Black & Corpse-like
- Continuous shooting mode: 2.2 shots per second with LCD and Obese/Fine mode off
- Self timer with 2 and 10 following options
Canon has introduced a series of printers designed to travail directly with its lineup of digital cameras. Using these printers, no notebook is required--simply connect the camera to the printer and start printing. Printers incorporate Canon's bubble jet direct printers i900D and i960, and card photo printer CP-200 and CP-300. Of route, photos from your camera can also be printed on any deeply computer system with an inkjet printer, sent off for online processing, or really enjoyed on your computer screen.
Storage and Transfer
Images are stored on CompactFlash Order I memory cards; a 32 MB card is included. When shooting in Substantial/Normal mode, you can store 54 images on the included honour card. Images can be downloaded to either a Mac or PC via USB 1.1, which means the camera can be useful to any USB-based Windows Me/2000/XP and Mac OS 8.6 or later computer without installing any software.
Power and Estimate
The camera is powered by 4 AA batteries (alkalines included, NiMH rechargeables recommended). It planning 4.1 by 2.5 by 1.4 inches and weighs 8.8 ounces (excluding battery-operated).
What's In The Box
This package includes the PowerShot A80 digital camera, 32 MB CompactFlash recollection card, four AA alkaline batteries, USB and AV cables, and wrist strap. It equally comes with ArcSoft Camera Suite and Digital Camera Solutions CD-ROMs with imaging software and USB drivers for Windows and Mac.
