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PowerShot S5 IS
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PowerShot S5 IS

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FEATURES



High Image Quality
8.0 megapixel CCD with maximum resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels, for large impressive high-resolution prints.
Powered by Canon’s exclusive DIGIC III Imaging Processor for superior image quality. It boasts significant improvements in delivering images with razor sharp clarity and lifelike color reproduction in accelerated processing speed.

User-Friendly Design
2.5” vari-angle color LCD monitor with wide viewing angle for easy composition and viewing of images at difficult angles.

Multiple Face Detection Technology
Incorporates the Face Detection AF, Face Detection AE and Face Detection FE, which work hand-in-hand to capture stunning photos of subjects’ faces with sharpness and right exposure easily.
- Face Detection AF: Detects as many as 9 subjects’ faces in a picture. If no faces are detected the AF system automatically switched to the conventional 9-point AiAF setting.
- Face Detection AE: Focus and exposure are controlled and set correctly for capturing the human face so that the subject’s best expression is not missed.
- Face Detection FE: Flash brightness and exposure automatically adjusted to ideal levels
Enables Red eye correction during playback
Keep subject in focus by tracking the faces even during movie recording.

Superb Optical Performance
Retractable 12x optical zoom, with up to 48x combined zoom, empowers you to zoom into action over a wide shooting range.
The lens is capable of achieving high imaging quality over the entire zoom range, hence ensuring the camera’s optimum performance under a variety of shooting conditions – especially good for sports photography.

Optical Image Stabilizer
The optical image stabilizer helps to eliminate camera shake and enables shooting of sharp images even when shooting subjects that are moving or when shooting from a moving vehicle.
- There are 4 control settings under the Image Stabilizer (IS) function:
1. Off - IS mode is not operational
2. Continuous - Operates in previewing or shooting mode. It eliminates the problem of camera shake even when shooting a distant subject at high zoom settings as image check can be done before pressing the shutter button.
3. Shoot only - Operates when shutter button is fully depressed. Prevents ‘seasickness effect’ caused by unnatural movement of the image on the monitor.
4. Panning - Operates only when camera movement in the up/down direction is detected. Very useful for shooting action packed scenes.

Amazing Beautiful Stills
Photo in Movie function enables shooting of high resolution stills during movie recording, hence saving the hassle of switching modes for different operations.
Enjoy smooth continuous shooting at the same speed until the SD memory card is full (depends on the type of SD card, number of recording pixels and compression rate setting).
Features an improved shutter drive mechanism with shutter speeds ranging from 15 sec to 1/3200 sec.
Manual pop-up flash gives full control of the flash.

Stereo Movie Recording and Sound Recording Capability
Movie recording up to 4GB or 60mins
Sound recording up to 2hrs of continuous sound recording

Safety Zoom
Intelligently transits seamlessly from optical to digital zoom without deterioration in image quality.

16:9 Widescreen
Shoot, view and print still images in 16:9 widescreen format.
Choose to view 16:9 letterbox format in LCD monitor and even on a conventional 4:3 TV.
Print 16:9 widescreen format when connected to Canon CP printers using Canon’s wide size papers.

Image Inspection Tool
Enables dual image display on the LCD to check the focusing on the selected frame or spots at the touch of a button.


My Colors Function
My Colors Function customizes selected color before capturing the pictures. Color reproduction and changes of the images can be viewed on the LCD in real-time while shooting, hence saving the time and hassle of retouching via computer.
Choose from any interesting My Colors Function modes:
- Vivid
- Neutral
- Sepia
- Black & White
- Positive Film
- Lighter Skin Tone
- Darker Skin Tone
- Vivid Blue
- Vivid Green
- Vivid Red
- Custom Color (to set balance of red, green, blue and skin color. Fine adjustments such as ‘make blues a little more vivid’ or ‘make skin color a little brighter’ are possible.)

Shooting Creativity & Simplicity
22 shooting modes, which include 9 special scene modes.
Special Scene modes - pre-programmed camera settings for specific shooting conditions to give optimal shooting results.
(Foliage, Snow, Beach, Indoor, Night Scene, Color Accent, Color Swap, Aquarium)

My Category Function
Sort images and movies into specific categories and choose to play and print accordingly to selected categories.
Make image searching, viewing and editing more fun and easy.

Image Playback Modes
Resume Playback
- Safely turn off the power or remove memory card and still resume playback from where the last viewed image was left off.
With Auto Rotate function, images and movies will be displayed and oriented correctly during playback, regardless whether taken with camera held vertically or horizontally.
Inbuilt Slide Show function with Transition effect and Advancing & Reversing effect.
- Save the hassle of going through the computer.
Easy location and management of images through enhanced Jump function with jump searches:
- Jump 10 images: Shows every tenth image
- Jump 100 images: Shows every hundredth image
- Jump shot date: Shows image taken at shooting date.
- Jump to movie: Displays movie only.
- Jump to folder: Goes to folder where image is stored.
- Jump to My Category: Displays specific images from
specific category.

Printing Options
3:2 Print Guide
- Image outside the 3:2 aspect ratio will be greyed out on the LCD monitor.
- Effective printing area can be previewed on the LCD during shooting before printing.


More Printing Options (to Selphy printers)
ID Photo Print - crop images to passport size for direct printing.
Movie Print - print a single or series of selected frames from movie footage.
- Movie Print – Single
Only a single selected frame is printed in a single sheet.
When connected to a Canon CP direct or a Pictbridge connection.
- Movie Print – Sequence
A sequence of selected images is printed in a single sheet.
When connected to a Canon CP direct connection.

Shoot and Print/Transfer Direct
Print photos directly from Canon direct photo printers and any PictBridge compliant printer without PC.
Easy print and transfer of images with just a touch of the Print/Share button.
Exif 2.2 compliant for greater color fidelity when printing to EXIF compatible printers



 

SPECIFICATIONS



Image Sensor (CCD)   
Camera Effective Pixels
Approx. 8.0 million pixels, 1/ 2.5-inch type
Colour Filters
Primary color filters (Bayer type)
Lens   
Focal Length (35 mm film equivalent)
12x Zoom: 36(W) – 432 (T) mm
Focusing Range
Normal: 50 cm (1.6 ft.) – infinity (W), 90cm (3.0 ft.) – infinity (T)
Macro: 10 – 50cm (W) (3.9 in. – 1.6 ft. (W))
Super Marco: 0 – 10cm (W) (0-3.9 in. (W))
Image Stabilizer (IS) System
Lens-shift type
Imaging Processor
DIGIC III
Viewfinder
0.33 inch electronic viewfinder
(Effective pixels: Approx. 115,000 pixels with dioptric and brightness adjustment)
LCD Monitor   
Type
2.5-inch type, color LCD with wide viewing angle
(Effective pixels: Approx. 207,000 pixels)
Features
Variangle type, Brightness adjustment (2 levels)
Focus
AF (Face Detect*¹/Center*²) / Manual focus
*¹ If the face can not be detected, 1-point fixed to center AF is used.
*² FlexiZone AF available (Pressing the SET button moves AF frame to a face)
Metering System
Evaluative*¹, Center-weighted average, Spot*²
*¹ Control to incorporate facial brightness in Face Detect AF.
*² Fixed to center
Exposure Compensation
±2 stops in 1/3-stop increments
ISO Speed
Auto, High ISO Auto, ISO 80/100/200/400/800/1600 (Standard Output Sensitivity, Recommended Exposure Index)
White Balance
Auto, Day Light, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Flash, Custom
Shutter   
Type
Mechanical shutter and electronic shutter
Speeds
15 – 1/3200 sec.
Aperture   
Type
Iris type
f/number
F/2.7 – f/8.0 (W), f3.5 – f/8.0 (T)
Flash   
Modes
Auto, on, off
Range
Normal: 50cm – 5.2m (W), 90cm – 4.0m (T) (1.6 – 17 ft. (W),3.0 – 13ft. (T))
Macro: 30 – 50 cm (W) (12 in. – 1.6 ft. (W))
(ISO speed: Auto)
Main Features
Face Detection FE, FE lock, 2nd curtain sync, Safety FE, use of an external flash (Speedlite) possible
Shooting Specifications   
Shooting Modes
Auto P, Tv, Av, M, C, (Super Macro), Portrait, Landscape, Night Snapshot, Sports, Special Scene*,
Stitch Assist, Movie
* Indoor, Night Scene, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium, Color Accent, Color Swap
Digital Zoom
Still images/Movies: Approx. 4.0x (up to approx. 48x in combination with the optical zoom)
Safety Zoom, Digital tele-converter
My Colors
My Colors Off, Vivid, Neutral, Sepia, Black & White, Positive Film, Lighter Skin Tone, Darker Skin Tone, Vivid Blue, Vivid Green, Vivid Red, Custom
Continuous Shooting
Approx. 1.5 shots/sec., AF: Approx. 0.9 shots/sec.
LV: Approx. 0.9 shots/sec.
(Large and Fine)
Number of Images Shot (CIPA)
Approx. 170 images (alkaline),
Approx. 450 images (NiMH)
* LCD monitor selected
Recording Specifications   
Recording Media
SD memory card, SDHC memory card, MultiMedia Card
File Format
Design rule for camera file system, DPOF (Version 1.1) compliant
Data Type
Still Images: Exif 2.2 (JPEG)
Movies: AVI (Image data: Motion JPEG, Audio data: WAVE (Stereo))
Audio: Sound memos, Sound recorder: WAVE (Stereo)
Number of Recording Pixels
Still Images: Large: 3264 x 2448, Medium 1: 2592 x 1944,
Medium 2: 2048 x 1536, Medium 3: 1600 x 1200,
Small: 640 x 480, Widescreen: 3264 x 1832
Movies: 640 x 480 (30 fps) • 640 x 480 (30 fps LP)
320 x 240 (60 fps) • 320 x 240 (30 fps)
Others
Sound recorder (Stereo)
Playback Specifications   
Main Features
Still Images: Index, My Colors, My Category, magnified, advancing and reversing through magnified images, New Jump, auto rotate, rotate, histogram, sound memos, Red-eye Correction, slide show (with effects), resume
Movies: Special playback, editing, auto rotate, resume
Direct Print
PictBridge, Canon Direct Print, Bubble Jet Direct
Display Languages
25 languages (Models for Japanese market available in 2 languages)
Interface
USB 2.0 Hi-Speed (mini-B)*, Audio/Video output
* MTP, PTP supported.
Power Source
4 AA Alkaline batteries, 4 AA rechargeable NiMH batteries (NB4-300)
Compact Power Adapter CA-PS700
Dimensions (excluding protrusions)
117.0 x 80.0 x 77.7 mm (4.60 x 3.15 x 3.06 in.)
Weight (camera body only)
Approx. 450g (15.9 oz.)



 

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ACCESSORIES



Accessories
High Power Flash HF-DC1
Speedlite EX series 220EX, 430EX, 580EX, 580EX II (Compatible with EOS series)
Tele-converter TC-DC58B (1.5x)
Wide Converter WC-DC58A (0.75x)
Close-up Lens 500D (58mm)
Lens Adapter / Hood Set LAH-DC20 Conversion Lens Adapter LA-DC58E Lens Hood LH-DC40


 

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