Canon Powershot SD880 IS – Silver
The Canon Powershot SD880 IS Silver Digital Camera is an 8.0 megapixel, 1/2.5 inch CCD with 3x
(38-114mm) zoom. It comes in a 2.5 inch, 230K-pixel TFT LCD with DIGIC III processor, 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio (for HDTV display), and features shutter speed at 15-1/1500 seconds. The SD1100 IS is available in colors rhythm and blue, pink melody, bohemian brown, golden tone, and swing silver.
It supports the SD, SDHC memory formats, JPEG, AVI, WAV file formats with 3264 x 2448 maximum image size and 640×480, 30 fps maximum video size. The camera also has USB 2.0, AV output connections and auto; forced on, slow synchro type of flash mode. The SD1100 IS weighs in at 5.1 ounces with battery and SD, and the physical dimensions are 2.2 inches by 3.4 inches by 1.0 inches.
The Canon PowerShot SD11000 IS provides a range of sensitivity options including Auto, High ISO Auto, and user-selectable settings for ISO 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1600.
Images shot in good light at ISO 80 and ISO 100 show low noise levels, vibrant color, decent resolution, acceptable highlight detail and some shadow detail. At the ISO 200 setting noise levels begin to rise a bit, but image quality is still very good. ISO 400 images are noticeably noisy, but still usable. ISO 800 images are a bit soft, colors are flat, and detail loss is eliminated. ISO 1600 images are soft, very noisy; with dull, pastel-like under saturated colors and messy fine detail. The image magnification, zoom in or zoom out and delete functions make reviewing and deleting an image immediate after capture a snap.
Its metering modes are evaluative, center and spot with 9-Point AF, Face Detection AF, Spot AF and Face Select and Track for the focus modes feature.
Scene mode options include portrait, snow / beach, indoor, foliage, aquarium, fireworks, underwater, kids and pets and so forth. There are several white balance settings such as Auto, daylight, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent, fluorescent H and custom.
The FUNC menu provides access to the most commonly changed or adjusted features. The Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS’s menu system’ s most commonly changed or adjusted operations and functions
can be accomplished via the traditional controls and the FUNC menu.
The SD1100 IS special features are Face Detection AiAF (Advanced intelligent Auto Focus), and automatic red-eye correction.
The SD1100 IS also provides four shooting modes: auto, manual, scene and movie modes. The camera
manages all exposure parameters in auto mode provided the user point and shoot. Manual option on the other hand is an auto exposure where its program mode will make all exposure decisions, but users can subtly alter the look of their photos by lightening or darkening images via exposure compensation, adjust white balance to better match ambient lighting, fine-tune sensitivity, and tweak color saturation.
Canon’s iSAPS (Intelligent Scene Analysis based on Photographic Space) technology produces exposures in common shooting situations. The camera matches the scene in front of the lens with an on-board database of known scene types and then compares that information with the specific scene’s subject distance, white balance, contrast range, lighting, and color just before the image is recorded to determine the best exposure.
Next to this, the optical image stabilization is a useful feature, reducing blur in captured images by shifting a lens element in the zoom to compensate for involuntary camera shake. IS allows photographers to capture focused images at slower shutter speeds and provides four IS modes: continuous when IS on, shoot only which is only activated when the shutter button is half-pressed, panning where IS only stabilizes for up-and-down motion and IS off.
In addition, the SD1100 also features Canon’s motion detection technology where if the camera senses motion during exposure, it will automatically boost sensitivity to compensate.
In movie mode, users can record video clips up to 4GB in duration at 640×480 at 30 fps. The camera can also record up to 60 seconds of fast frame rate (320X240 at 60 fps) video clips and several lower-resolution video settings. Focus and optical zoom are locked at the first frame.
Movies can be edited in-camera in Playback mode and then previewed – users can then opt to save the edited video clip, the original video clip, or both. The SD1100 IS also provides a voice-notation mode that allows users to add audio notes (up to 60 seconds) to their still images.
Canon includes a lithium-ion battery and charger, USB and A/V cables, a software CD-ROM, a wrist strap, a quick start guide, a printed user’s manual, and a 32MB starter memory card in the box with the camera as the accessories.
