Canon PowerShot S100 Point & Shoot

Key Features

The house of Canon strives to please both beginners and professionals with the recent addition to its arsenal of cameras. The S100 belongs to the point and shoot series of cameras by Canon. This camera is ideal for landscape and architectural photography, as it has a wide angle lens with a focal length of 5.2 - 26 mm. This translates to a 35 mm equivalent focal length of 24 - 120 mm.

This sleek camera has a 5x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom, which gives you a combined zoom of 20x. This range takes you infinitely closer to your subjects, letting you take detailed images of your friends and family. The CMOS sensor of this point and shoot camera enables you to take images at 12.1 megapixels.

This compact camera is exceedingly small for the features it packs, weighing a mere 198 g. The camera has a slight build that will easily fit in your pocket or a small bag. This Canon camera features a grip groove on the front panel that lets you keep a firm hold on your camera while shooting images.

The back screen features dedicated buttons for video shooting and image preview, making this a convenient camera to use. The rotary dial on the top panel features the modes that you can use with this camera. This PowerShot camera lets you shoot videos in Full HD at 1920 x 1080 dot pixel resolution (24 fps). The audio track is recorded in stereo sound, letting you take professional looking videos for posterity.

The PowerShot S100 is powered by the DIGIC 5 image processor, which has increased processing speeds. This processor features better noise reduction and white balance settings, improving the overall performance of the camera and the quality of your images. Your images are supported in 4:3 aspect ratio. You can compose and preview your images with the 3 inch TFT LCD screen which has a resolution of 461,000 dot pixels.

Battery and Storage

This digital camera records your images and videos on SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards. The rechargeable Lithium Ion battery lets you take up to 200 shots on full charge. The high speed USB port lets you transfer images from the Canon PowerShot to a PC or laptop and always have more space available for pictures. The HDMI port of the point and shoot digital camera lets you view these images and Full HD videos on a compatible large screen television.

Performance

The PowerShot S100 features an iris type aperture with a range of f/2 - 8, which controls the amount of light falling on the image sensor. The Auto Focus of this digital camera has a range starting from 3 cm (Wide) and 30 cm (Tele), letting you focus on the exact point you want in any scene. ISO refers to the light sensitivity of a camera. This PowerShot digital camera has a light sensitivity range of ISO 80 - 6400.

The shutter speed of this camera has a range of 1 - 1/2000 sec, which can be decreased to 15 seconds in some modes. The built-in pop-up flash has a functioning range of 50 cm - 7 m (Wide) and 50 cm - 2.3 m, which can light up every corner of your image, whether taken in low light situations or indoors.

This camera also comes with a fully manual mode, where you can pick each of these settings to suit your needs. The exposure, aperture and shutter speeds can be experimented with to take stunning images of your liking. The professional-style control ring also contributes to the manual mode, making digital photography easy and intuitive.

Features

This digital camera by Canon features an amazing 33 shooting modes like Nostalgic, Foliage, Snow, Fireworks and many more. In the Beach mode, the camera takes bright images of your subjects' faces without darkening them. The lens-shift image stabilization applies the right shake correction method for the image to achieve blur-free and sharp pictures every time.

This camera also features Face Detection, which automatically identifies when a face is in the frame, and adjusts the exposure and focus settings accordingly. This ensures that your family and friends are always in sharp focus in every image. The Smart Shutter feature identifies when a subject smiles or winks or even enters a frame, automatically clicking the image for those key moments.

The self-timer function lets you delay shutter release by 2 or 10 seconds so that you can join your subjects for sharp photographs every time. You can also customize this setting to fit each occasion. In the Continuous Shooting mode, you can take shots at up to 2.3 shots per second in Program mode and up to 9.6 shots per second in High-speed Burst HQ mode.