
List Price:
$549.99
Price: $899.00
Details
- 7.1 megapixel digital ELPH camera with hooked, metallic body
- USB 2.0 grave-speed support for fast downloads and transfers
- Enhanced moving picture mode with 60 fps recording
Description
The SD500 is the original Digital ELPH from Canon to be equipped with 7.1 megapixel indefatigability -- a major step forward for a camera this simple to use. With Canon's exclusive DIGIC II image processor, a big, two-inch LCD cover, and an outstanding set of features and capabilities, the SD500 is a digital camera expected to lead Canon's impressive Digital ELPH line.
The SD500's 7.1 megapixel CCD (the highest changelessness in the Digital ELPH line) delivers images with unprecedented specific. Meanwhile, the powerful 3x optical zoom provides plenty of thorough-up excitement with a focal length equivalent to 37 to 111 millimeters in a 35-millimeter peel camera. The camera's stylish new perpetual curve design -- a pre-eminent in digital cameras -- fits your hands line for line, and though its body is superbly slim, the SD500 has an oversized two-inch LCD evaluate that makes for easy framing and playback.
Designed to overhaul processing speed and image quality, the SD500's DIGIC II processor provides markedly faster camera startup, coupй-focus and playback. Plus, it assures that every notion is more accurate, with a broader range and vibrant colors. The processor is so unwavering and powerful that it could change the way even a die-hard haze photographer feels about digital camera image eminence and performance.
Canon has added nine special scene modes to mitigate you take the best pictures in various situations. "portrait" sets a goodly aperture, focuses the subject, and artistically blurs the background to receive your subject appear clear and bright. "foliage" captures exceptional organic shots, like autumn leaves, greenery, or blossoms. "lakeshore" gets clear shots at sunny locales without darkening faces. Other scenes cover fireworks, night snapshot, kids and pets, indoor, and snow.
You can in the same way set the camera to "digital macro" to shoot larger-than-vital spark close-ups, or turn the dial to "underwater" to snap images with reduced backscatter, so you'll see the fish and coral, not your show. If you're interested in taking pictures underwater, you'll want to make certain you pick up the WP-DC70 from Canon -- a waterproof case made noticeably for the SD500.
Ready for some filmmaking? With this camera, you can hurl great full motion video at an astonishing 60 frames per alternate (fps) -- perfect for capturing fast moving subjects. Evermore thinking, Canon designed the SD500 to also offer a 30 fps moving picture mode that is perfect for creating video files that are unsatisfactory enough to email.
The SD500 is the first of Canon's compact digital cameras to buttress the USB 2.0 high-speed standard. You'll enjoy the highest observations transfer speeds with any USB 2.0 compatible computer, making it easier than by any chance to download your digital images from the camera and perceptive your memory card. Also, this camera's exhibit level is high enough to take full advantage of wonderful-high-speed SD memory cards.
What's in the Box
PowerShot SD500 digital camera, wrist strap, SD recall card, battery pack, battery charger, digital camera revelation CD-ROM, AV cable, and interface cable.