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Auto Shift ISO…………………...... 2 Canon Lens Technology…………. 3 DIGIC III Image Processor……….. 4 Flexizone AF/AE………………...... 6 Full Motion VGA Movies………….. 7 Intelligent Orientation Sensor……. 8 iSAPS…………………………........ 8 ISO Setting………………………… 9 Multiple Point AiAF……………...... 9 My Colors Function……………..... 10 Optical Image Stabilizer………….. 12 Photo Effect Mode………………… 12 PictBridge…………………………... 13 Print/Share Button………………… 15 RAW Mode Capability…………….. 15 Red-eye Correction……………….. 16 Time Lapse Movies……………….. 17 Ultrasonic Motor…………………… 17 White Balance……………………... 18 1

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Auto Shift ISO…………………...... 2

Canon Lens Technology…………. 3

DIGIC III Image Processor……….. 4

Flexizone AF/AE………………...... 6

Full Motion VGA Movies………….. 7

Intelligent Orientation Sensor……. 8

iSAPS…………………………........ 8

ISO Setting………………………… 9

Multiple Point AiAF……………...... 9

My Colors Function……………..... 10

Optical Image Stabilizer………….. 12

Photo Effect Mode………………… 12

PictBridge…………………………... 13

Print/Share Button………………… 15

RAW Mode Capability…………….. 15

Red-eye Correction……………….. 16

Time Lapse Movies……………….. 17

Ultrasonic Motor…………………… 17

White Balance……………………... 18

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Auto Shift ISO Take photos without worrying about camera shake with the new Auto Shift ISO Function.

At low ISO Speeds the shutter speed is slow and the camera shake icon appears. Simply depress the shutter button down halfway and the Print/Share button will begin to blink. Press this button to raise the ISO Speed until blurring no longer tends to occur. The ISO speed increase is kept to a minimum, resulting in beautiful photographs. You can access the Auto Shift ISO Function under the Recording Menu of your Canon Digital Camera settings. *1 - ISO Shift does not work with High ISO Auto, ISO 800 or ISO 1600, in long shutter mode or with the flash. *2 - Depending on the shooting conditions, the camera shake warning icon may not disappear even if the ISO speed is increased.

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Innovative, exclusive and superior, Canon is known worldwide for its lenses. Canon's lens technology is unparalleled and leads the industry in producing super sharp-high resolution pictures.

Canon Lens Technology

The lens is the first part of any camera that "receives" optical information. In digital cameras, the best CCD sensor and most advanced image processing cannot reverse the effects of a poor lens. Optical engineering, therefore, plays a fundamental role in the design of a digital camera.

Canon has the world's foremost lens technology, backed by a 70-year track record of innovation and critical acclaim. Canon optical patents have broken size and performance barriers with astounding regularity, constantly elevating industry standards.

Canon's aspherical lens design is an example of Canon's innovative lens technology. Compact digital cameras represent especially difficult challenges for lens designers because the CCD sensor, where the image is formed, is much smaller in surface area than, for example, a single frame area of 35mm film.

Aspherical lens technology allows all of the light entering the camera lens, containing valuable picture information, to accurately converge together precisely on the image sensor. The result is a sharper, more accurate, and clearer picture, compared to competitive cameras using standard spherical lens.

Canon is in a unique position to meet the special optical requirements of compact digital cameras. Extremely compact, high-performance lenses, such as those developed for the Digital ELPH series, demonstrate Canon's unmatched aspherical lens technologies and unparalleled commitment to precision.

Experience this magic using any of our digital cameras and see why Canon is considered the pioneer in lens technology.

DIGIC III Image Processor Developed to maximize the performance of Canon cameras, DIGIC III expands on the abilities if DIGIC II by taking performance and speed to even higher levels.

Face Detection Technology Cameras with the DIGIC III image processor have the ability to detect where human faces are located in the shooting frame, even when they fall between auto focus points. Up to 9 human faces on screen are automatically detected and brought into sharp focus. In addition, exposure errors that can leave a subject’s face too dark or too bright can be corrected. Face-priority AF While either AiAF (9 points) or 1-point AF could be selected as the AF system in previous models, cameras with DIGIC III use the face detection function of this new imaging processor to add “Face Detect” to AiAF.

Face-priority AE Depending on the lighting conditions when you shoot a photo, the faces of subjects in the picture may appear too light or too dark. Cameras with DiG!C III control the AE to achieve proper brightness all over the image while paying due attention to the brightness of faces.

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Flexizone AF/AE

For more freedom, Canon created FlexiZone AF/AE (Auto-focus/ Auto-exposure). FlexiZone AF/AE lets you freely move the auto-focus point around the frame, allowing you to select which part of the frame you wish to focus on without moving your camera or re-framing the shot. When spot metering is selected, the user can choose to measure exposure at the chosen AF point or at the center of the frame, providing the maximum flexibility in handling difficult lighting situations, just like a pro.

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Full Motion VGA Movies PowerShot raises the bar further still, giving the user the ability to capture smooth full-motion (30 frame-per-second) video at full VGA resolution (640 x 480 pixels). The user can even choose VGA-Fine recording at this frame rate, which yields even better picture quality by lowering the compression rate. This advanced movie mode also offers improved 16-bit sound quality.

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Intelligent Orientation SensorCanon's Intelligent Orientation sensor automatically senses whether the picture is being taken horizontally or vertically. PowerShot cameras are able to use this information to avoid the typical errors that occur in auto focus, auto exposure, and auto white balance with less sophisticated cameras. Moreover, pictures are properly oriented during playback, whether on the camera's screen or a computer monitor.

iSAPSCanon iSAPS (Intelligent Scene Analysis based on Photographic Space) technology dramatically improves the performance of AF (Auto Focus), AE (Auto Exposure), and AWB (Auto White Balance).

By analyzing a huge volume of photography data, accumulated over 70 years, looking at the frequency and parameters at which users took photographs, and using the experience from manufacturing over 150 million cameras, Canon engineers arrived at statistical relationships among focal length, focus distance, scene brightness, and other factors. From this knowledge Canon developed iSAPS technology to automatically balance the relationship between these elements for a higher quality picture.

Canon iSAPS technology instantly evaluates the "photographic space" of any scene. Equipped with this "foreknowledge" (statistical frequencies for different combinations of these factors and advanced prediction algorithms), Canon PowerShot cameras can optimize AF/AE/AWB settings for any given scene more rapidly and more effectively. The result is a perfectly captured, natural-appearing image with outstanding detail.

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ISO SettingCanon Digital Cameras give you a choice of ISO equivalent settings. As with film, the lowest ISO setting possible for the shooting conditions will yield the best image quality. In most shooting modes, the camera will automatically select the best ISO setting to suit the conditions. However, in manual and advanced shooting modes, you can set the ISO to 50, 100, 200, 400 or higher if available.

Multiple Point AiAF

Canon's wide-area AiAF (Artificial Intelligent Auto-Focus) intelligently and automatically selects one or more focusing points based on factors, such as subject position and motion. AiAF win conjunction with iSAPS Technology to more quickly and accurately achieve auto-focus under a wide variety of shooting conditions. You get fast, accurate AF whether you hold the camera horizontally or vertically, with stationary or moving

subjects, with off-center subjects, and even in low-light/low-contrast lighting. Simply place the subject anywhere in the frame and the wide-area multiple-point AiAF automatically selects any of the focus points. Out-of-focus pictures when the subject isn't centered are a thing of the past.

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My Colors FunctionMy Colors lets you customize colour before shooting, and correct individual colours on the LCD screen as you shoot! Nine modes offer many options, including Vivid Blue, Vivid Red, Vivid Green, Positive Film, Lighter Skin Tone, Darker Skin Tone, Colour Accent (retain one colour while others go to monochrome), Colour Swap (specify a colour to replace another) and Custom Colour.

Colour Swap - Select a colour and replace it with a colour you specify for special effects.

Colour Accent - Choose to retain a single colour in your image while other colours turn to monochrome.

Positive Film - Combine "Vivid Red", "Vivid Green" and "Vivid Blue" to achieve a positive film effect.

Lighter Skin Tone - Make your subjects' skin tones paler.

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Darker Skin Tone - Darken skin tones a shade.

Vivid Blue - Emphasize the sea, sky, or other blue areas.

Vivid Green - Add vivid dimensions to greens for extraordinary nature shots.

Vivid Red - Change up the red objects in your images for extra impact.

Custom Colour - Set balance of red, green, blue and skin colours; finely adjust brightness and vividness. Note: Actual results may vary from examples shown above

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Optical Image StabilizerIf all your pictures were taken outdoors on a bright, sunny day you may not find it difficult to capture sharp pictures. But blurred pictures due to camera shake becomes more of a problem when taking pictures in dim light - at dusk, indoors, on a cloudy day. And the chance of getting blurred pictures increases when using longer focal length lenses that magnify the image and any associated movement.

To overcome these problems, Canon developed lenses with built-in image stabilization. The Canon Image Stabilizer uses sensors to detect motion and generate a corrective signal to reduce blur caused by camera movement. An image-stabilizing lens group along the optical axis is shifted in response to the detected motion, providing effective cancellation of unwanted lens movement and vibration. Result – in still photography, high magnification lenses can be hand-held at slower shutter speeds without blurred images, and handheld video footage is smoother.

In many shooting situations where photographers are not allowed to use a tripod or flash, such as art museums and concert halls, Canon lenses with image stabilization are the ticket to sharper pictures.

Photo Effect Mode For advanced creative effects, Canon offers a Photo Effect Mode settings. Vivid Color yields vibrant shots with dramatic high-contrast. Neutral Color produces images of subtle, elegant tonality. Low Sharpening softens an image to create a romantic, soft-focus filter effect. Sepia recreates the look of vintage photographs. Black and White delivers enhanced clarity - especially useful when shooting text.

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PictBridge

What is PictBridge? PictBridge is a worldwide Direct Print Standard developed by Canon, Fuji, HP, Olympus, Seiko/Epson and Sony. PictBridge allows digital cameras, camcorders and other image capture devices to connect and print directly to photo printers and other output devices - no PC is required.

Benefits of PictBridge You can connect any PictBridge compatible digital camera or camcorder to any PictBridge compatible printer regardless of the manufacturer and enjoy direct printing without the use of a computer. With no need for a PC and support for inter-brand connectivity, PictBridge ultimately means more choice for you the consumer.

Direct photo printing without a PC The PictBridge standard is independent of the physical connection and communication protocol. This has allowed vendors such as Canon to employ existing industry standard connections such as USB, which are widely used on cameras and printers. Once connected, photo selections and print instructions can be made from the camera's LCD and control buttons. Canon has PictBridge compliant products in the digital SLR, digital compact camera, digital camcorder and photo-printer line-ups. For a complete listing, refer to the chart below.

Functionality To attain PictBridge certification, products must be capable of basic mandatory functions such as

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image selection, although the standard supports more sophisticated functions such as cropping, multiple prints, print paper size selection and printing with date stamp. Once connected, the PictBridge communication establishes which features are supported by both devices and the user is presented with these options only.

PictBridge supports vendor-to-vendor specific extensions of the standard. Where a camera of one brand is connected to a printer of the same brand, both devices are able to communicate in order to take advantage of vendor specific features. With Canon this may include features such as Vivid Photo and Photo Noise Reduction.

Backward compatibility for Canon products Directly connecting a camera and a printer is not a new concept for Canon, which had already developed its own 'Bubble Jet Direct' and 'Direct Print' standards long before PictBridge was ratified. To reward the loyalty of existing Canon customers, the new range of PictBridge compatible products also supports these Canon proprietary standards.

Canon digital cameras and camcorders with direct print functionality that are not PictBridge compatible can only be connected to a Canon printer. However, Canon PictBridge compatible digital cameras and camcorders can be connected to any Canon printer with direct print functionality or any other manufacturers printer that is PictBridge compatible. Use any vendor PictBridge compatible Direct Print digital camera or camcorder to print to any Canon PictBridge compatible printer.

Print/Share ButtonMaking spectacular prints from your favourite digital images doesn’t get any easier than this!

PowerShot cameras featuring the advanced Print/Share button, combined with one of Canon’s superb Direct Photo Printers or a PictBridge compatible printer, make the entire process fast and simple. When the camera detects connection to a compatible printer, the Print/Share button lights blue. With the desired image on the camera’s LCD (in playback mode), simply press the Print/Share button. In minutes, you’ll have a crisp, full-colour photograph of the image you selected. Also use this button to transfer image files directly to a computer (Windows only).

RAW Mode Capability

The new DIGIC Imaging Processor also makes possible a RAW mode recording option. While the multiple JPEG modes maximize image quality and storage efficiency, you now have the option of saving your photos in the RAW format when you want to capture at the highest possible quality with no compression.

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Red-eye Correction Now you can detect and correct red-eye right in your playback LCD monitor.

Automatic Detection: Canon cameras with this feature automatically correct red-eye during playback for both regular and flash photography. You can access the Red-eye Function under the Play Menu of your Canon Digital Camera settings. (*Red-eye correction cannot be performed on movies)

Manual Correction: In unusual cases where red-eye is not automatically detected, it can easily be corrected manually during playback mode from the LCD screen. Up to 35 frames can be added.

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Time Lapse Movies Now you can create stunning time lapse movies with ease on your digital camera. Showcase a flower growing, a beautiful sunrise, or any other significant event you wish you capture in moments. With the time lapse movie function you simply select a shooting interval (1 or 2 sec.) to have a single frame shot at that interval and the camera does the rest. (Sound cannot be recorded in this mode.)

Ultrasonic Motor

In order to achieve critical autofocus, the elements within a camera lens have to move quickly, quietly, and with exacting precision. To accomplish this, Canon developed the world's first lens-based Ultrasonic Motor (USM). Based on a totally new technology, the motor spins by ultrasonic oscillation energy. Therefore, torque is constant and start and stop functions virtually instantaneous.

By making the autofocus operation almost inaudible and by accelerating the autofocus speed, this type of motor greatly expands the shooting possibilities for Canon photographers.

You'll find two types of Canon Ultrasonic Motors in the camera lens system. Ring-type USM-equipped lenses, found in large aperture and super telephoto designs, allow manual focusing without switching out of the auto mode. Micro USM designs bring the performance benefits of Canon's USM technology to a wide assortment of affordable EF lenses.

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White BalanceCanon iSAPS technology ensures fast, accurate automatic white balance compensation. Canon's Digital cameras also let you select from preset modes covering common lighting conditions, for example, daylight, cloudy, tungsten, or fluorescent. You can even perform a manual white balance using a white reference target, storing the measurement as a custom setting for later recall.

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