Canon Powershot SD980 IS: A Review

Written by Editor on Wednesday, December 02nd, 2009
Categories: Digital Cameras & Camcoders, Product Reviews       Tags: , , ,

Powershot SD980 IS

Canon has always been very famous in the market because of its beautiful and fantastic range of cameras focusing on more clear and sharp photographs. Cannon cameras are mostly liked by the professional photographers because of their high quality picture results and bunch of top class features based on the most recent technologies. The powershot line is one of the top setting lines brought in the market by canon. With this new model SD980 cannon has released its first ever touch screen camera and along with that it is a very smart camera with an impressive style and weight. Cannon ensures that it makes shooting to the higher standards of bringing ease and style thus making it one of the top brands of the world.

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The Powershot SD980 IS is one of the best cameras brought by cannon in the recent year and it is getting popular at a very great rate. While entering into the world of touch screen displays this camera allows you to select your shooting modes and preview the settings on just a single touch of your finger. It has brought some exciting new facilities to the playback experience like controlling it by tilting and shaking of camera. Titling allows you to change the speed of advancing images and shaking gives you an alternate way to browse your images.

Features:

  1. The 3.0 inch touch panel is a pure LCD screen with true colors making the vision of settings more clear and sharp and it also included an Active display for quickly switching between images during playback.
  2. Featuring a 24mm ultra wide angle and 5x zoom and lens with an optical stabilizer (IS), it makes it possible to capture sceneries and large group into one photograph with a single push of your finger.
  3. It is limited to only 3 shooting modes and they don’t allow you to tweak shutter speed or aperture. Thus it is more like just point and shoot no need to worry about other settings.
  4. Get more in your shot with a 5x Optical Zoom with ultra-wide 24mm lens, plus Canon’s Optical Image Stabilizer and 12 Megapixels for superb resolution and editing of pictures.
  5. 720p HD movie shooting capability plus HDMI output connector is best for easy playback of video and photos on your HDTV thus make the best of your photo viewing experience with this fantastic camera.
  6. According to your style you can choose any color for you as it comes in 4 beautiful colors like Silver, Blue, Purple or Gold. Thus the features are coming with an exciting beauty to give you the life’s best experience of photography.

Specifications:

  1. Type: 12.1 Megapixel, 1/2.3-inch type Charge Coupled Device (CCD)
  2. Focusing Range: Normal: 1.6 ft./50cm-infinity, 2.9 ft./90cm (T) Macro: 2.0 in.-1.6 ft./5-50cm (W)
    Digital Macro: 2.0 in.-3.9 ft./5-10cm (W)
  3. Width: 3.9 inch
  4. Depth: 0.9 inch
  5. Height: 2.1 inch
  6. Weight: 4.6 oz
  7. Digital Zoom: 5 x
  8. LCD Monitor: 3.0-inch TFT color LCD with wide viewing angle
  9. Focal Length: 4.3(W) - 21.5(T) mm f/2.8-f/5.9 (35mm equivalent: 24(W) - 120(T) mm)
  10. Image Storage: JPEG 4000 x 3000 , JPEG 3264 x 2448 , JPEG 2592 x 1944, JPEG 1600 x 1200,
    JPEG 640 x 480, JPEG 4000 x 2248

Thus this an exciting new camera by cannon that is introducing the touch display for the first time in cannon’s history and this touch screen can cause some kind of difficulties for the beginners but for the experts it is an ideal camera with remarking features.

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