Canon PowerShot SX100IS 8MP Digital Camera with 10x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom Black
The PowerShot SX100IS will inspire you with its with phenomenal 10x optical zoom… and so much more. There’s the 8.0-megapixel CCD and Optical Image Stabilizer for shake-free shooting. Plus, the DIGIC III Image Processor with advanced Face Detection, Face Selector Button, and red-eye correction assure superb results every time. Auto ISO Shift and ISO 1600 make low-light shooting easy. The large Mode Dial lets you select Scene Modes or full manual control effortlessly.
PowerShot SX100IS Highlights
Packed with Brilliant Features in a Compact Body A new concept, the PowerShot SX100IS is compact and portable with streamlined controls. Take it everywhere, because inside is a level of photographic power that’s truly impressive; 8.0 megapixels ensure deeply detailed images, giving you complete freedom to enlarge an image or any section of an image and crop it to your exact specifications.
With DIGIC III, your images boast superior quality, the camera operates at top efficiency, and battery life is enhanced. What’s more, DIGIC III enables Canon’s Face Detection Technology and red-eye correction to give you better, more true-to-life people shots. Simply press the Shutter Button halfway down, and the camera automatically pinpoints the faces in the scene and chooses the ideal focus point. The camera controls exposure settings and flash to keep every face looking bright and natural. Red eyes can be corrected during playback.
iSAPS Technology is an entirely original scene-recognition technology developed for digital cameras by Canon. Using an internal database of thousands of different photos, iSAPS works with the fast DIGIC III Image Processor to improve focus speed and accuracy, as well as exposure and white balance.
Powerful Zoom, True-to-Life Imaging The PowerShot SX100IS has a 10x optical zoom lens that makes it easy to get the inspiring, emotive close-ups that will make your images lasting keepsakes. This magnificent lens gives you the power to shoot distant subjects with razor-sharp precision and stunning lifelike color. So you can brilliantly capture a bird high atop a tree, a child’s winning goal from across the stadium, or a school play from the last row. Plus, thanks to Canon’s highly sophisticated Optical Image Stabilizer technology, even at maximum zoom every image is rock steady.
The PowerShot SX100IS is equipped with Canon’s acclaimed Optical Image Stabilizer Technology that automatically detects and corrects camera shake–one of the leading causes of fuzzy or blurred shots. Even when zoomed in, you can get the steady, crisp, brilliant images you’ll be proud to shoot and share. And Canon’s Optical Image Stabilizer Technology is so convenient to use. It functions perfectly with or without a flash.
See the Image Beautifully with Wide Viewing Angle The camera’s 2.5-inch LCD screen gives you the big picture, whether you’re shooting, reviewing, or showing off your images. This high-resolution screen offers a crisp, clear picture and wide viewing angle to make shooting, playback, and using the camera’s menu functions especially convenient. Clear and bright, it also features Night Display for easy viewing in low light. And the convenience of using AA-size batteries means that no special power adapters or chargers are needed wherever you go.
Canon Technology Maximizes Quality and Performance
Genuine Canon Face Detection Technology sets the focus, exposure, and flash automatically, leaving you free to compose a group, capture an unguarded moment, or coax the perfect smile. Plus the new Face Selector Button lets you select the primary face.
DIGIC III features Face Detection technologies, giving the you best possible results in any shooting situation. Face Detection AF/AE sets the focus point and exposure for the faces of your subjects. Face Detection FE adjusts the flash to correctly illuminate your subject to provide the best balance between your subject and the overall scene, eliminating the common problems of over- and underexposed faces.
Red-eye correction detects and corrects red-eye during playback. In unusual cases where red-eye is not automatically detected, it can easily be corrected manually during playback mode.
And new Face Selector AF enables you to lock on and follow a specific face. The selected subject is tracked wherever the face moves in the frame. Simply press the Face Selector Button; then the selected face is double-framed and tracked when the face moves in the frame.
Life doesn’t give you second chances to capture special times. That’s why the PowerShot SX100IS features ISO 1600 and High ISO Auto settings that reduce the effects of camera shake and sharpen subjects in low-light situations, giving you greater shooting flexibility.
Instant Creative Control
Easy-to-use Mode Dial with a wide range of shooting modes from fully manual to fully automatic, including Kids and Pets mode to capture fast moving objects.
Now you’re free to concentrate on what really counts–your subject. With the large simple-to-operate Mode Dial, all you have to do is turn to the setting that best matches the scene you’re viewing through the lens. The PowerShot SX100IS does the rest. It chooses the perfect exposure, aperture, and flash. Or if you want to flex your creative muscles, choose Manual Control and do it all yourself. You’ve got special Scenes Modes to handle a wide range of common shooting situations–effortlessly.
The Complete Print Solution
Print/Share Button for easy direct printing and downloading, plus ID Photo Print and Movie Print with select PIXMA Photo Printers, CP, and SELPHY Compact Photo Printers.
The PowerShot SX100IS’s Print/Share button makes direct printing easier than ever. Simply connect the SX100IS to a Canon CP, SELPHY, or PIXMA Photo Printer or any PictBridge compatible photo printer, press the lighted Print/Share button and print! Also use the Print/Share button to transfer images to a computer (Windows and Macintosh).
Print your own ID photos in 28 different sizes or use the Movie Print function to output multiple stills from a recorded movie on a single sheet with a Canon SELPHY Compact Photo Printer.
What’s in the box:
PowerShot SX100IS digital camera, AA-size alkaline battery (x 2), 16MB SD memory card SDC-16M, wrist strap WS-200, Digital Camera Solution CD-ROM, USB interface cable IFC-400PCU, AV cable AVC-DC300
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars not for people who are not fimiliar with all the different options…
I got this camera as a gift for Christmas a few years ago after doing a lot of research. I am into taking somewhat artsy photos, but am not fimilar with all the different settings and options it requires to take a great picture, so I thought this would be a great camera for me as it seemed pretty simply to figure out. I guess I was looking for something with similar features to a digital slr without the size (and price). I think this camera probably is compareable to that, but I feel like unless you really know what you are doing, or take time to memorize the manual, it is really hard to get what you are looking for when taking a photo. There have been several instances where I’ve had the manual out, testing out a setting, only to forget it the next time I use my camera. It was a little disappointing to say the least, as I would have liked to used this as a “regular” shot camera as well as some art type shots, but mostly have just used it for the latter.
Another con to this camera is the flash takes rediculously long to recycle. I have used the camera a lot to take photos of friends and whatnot, and a lot of times you sit there for what seems like forever for the picture to actually be taken because the flash takes soooo long. Several times I have missed a great shot because of this, and it’s really annoying when trying to take a photo of someone as they are standing there for so long waiting for the picture to be taken. It really makes it hard to capture the “moment” in a photograph.
Besides my two complaints, overall this camera takes great photographs and video. I think I would recommend this camera for someone who is more fimilar with the different settings (shutter speed, iso, all that technical stuff) or someone who will be able to take the time to learn them. Thank god for the “auto” feature. I do get some really great pictures from this camera, though.
5 Stars Not quite….
I just read a review that said this camera has a long “recycle” time on the flash. It said that you have to wait ten seconds after putting the flash up to use it. I can put the flash up and immediately take a picture with it. I don’t know if I am doing anything different, but it works for me. Also, I have never had problem with low light shooting. I have been able to get quite a few nice pictures in low light with this camera.
1 Star Does lemon law apply here?
I bought this camera in May of 2008 because I had an old (26 yrs) 35mm Canon that I loved and it always took great photos. After about 6 months, the camera started to fail to focus at random. The lens jammed in September ‘08 and would not retract. It gave me a reset message. I took it to the photo supply dealer that sold it to me and the owner replaced the batteries which made no difference. He finally bumped the camera on his hand and the lens retracted. By November of ‘08, the camera would not focus at all and he sent it off for it’s first repair which took about 3 weeks. The repair only had a 90 day warranty by Canon. In February, the camera begain to stop focusing again but I thought it was lighting/white balance at the car show where it was being used. By the end of march (more than 90 days later) it stopped focusing again. Canon made a “good will repair” with no warranty. Now, four months later (July) it has started to randomly fail to focus again and the lens rattles when focusing or zooming. I paid $399.00 for the camera. If I had paid the $125.00 they originally quoted me for the second repair I would have $524.00 invested in a camera that now would (or soon will be) useless and only lasted 1 year and 2 months of very light use. I will not buy another Canon product for a very, very, very long time if ever.
1 Star Canon disappoints, twice.
For several years I used a Canon PowerShot G2. Although it was quite bulky and expensive, it produced the best photos I’ve ever seen from any camera. After about 4 years it stopped recognizing its battery and would no longer charge them. I tried several replacements and settled on a Canon PowerShot SX100IS 8MP. Big mistake. The photos were okay, but not nearly as good as the G2. But the biggest problem was that after a year, or so, it exhibited a very similar problem in that it stopped recognizing perfectly good AA batteries. It would say I need to replace the batteries and then shut down. As I mentioned, this would happen despite the batteries were perfectly good. I have tried several things to remedy this situation, but nothing has helped. Despite the phenomenal photo quality of my G2, I will probably never buy a Canon again.
5 Stars Good camera, great video, would buy it again
Have had it about a year. First the minor quibbles:
1) flash-recycle time is a little slow
2) you cannot change zoom when shooting video
3) menu navigation is not idiot-proof
4) low-light level results are fair.
The auto-focus, especially the face-finder feature, works flawlessly, and the 10x zoom capability is great. The LCD is big and bright, and I have not missed having a viewfinder yet.
I use Sanyo Eneloop rechargeable AA NiMH batteries (2000 maH) in it and can typically shoot at least a couple of hundred pictures without flash or shoot a half-hour or so before having to swap to the backup set of batteries.
The image stabilization works very well, although photo quality in very low light is not great.
For normal picture taking the results are very good. The photos have good contrast and colors, and the auto-focus and face detection work well and don’t get in the way of taking pictures.
An interesting thing about face detection is that it detects eyes, human or not! So when doing a macro photo of some colorful leaf-hopper with the camera, the face detection is able to pick out the tiny insect eyes and focus on the insect face correctly.
Photos using the flash tend to come out very well, and it takes a second to learn that you need to manually pop up the flash to make it work.
