Canon PowerShot S100 is the first digital Elph, stylish and tiny 12.0-megapixel point and shoot camera featuring 35mm equivalent lens, which takes Compact Flash storage. It is a great little device and a worthy successor to Editors’ Choice high performance, PowerShot S95, providing sharp yet fast lens, longer zoom, improved photo quality and performance, GPS, very good low light performance, raw shooting support, sophisticated features and fast recycle time. The PowerShot S100 is a sophisticated, small device with enhanced f/2.0 lens and HS System. Based on CMOS 12.1 megapixel high sensitivity 1/1.7 type sensor, it offers 9.6 frames per second burst shooting, ultrawide angle 24mm optical 5.0x zoom lens, maximum ISO of 6400 at full resolution and DIGIC 5 processor. The Canon PowerShot S100 is a highly developed, consumer-focused point and shoot camera, which has the power, advanced users and enthusiasts require for creating exceptional images. Like other PowerShot models in the company’s lineup, it incorporates all the latest technologies Canon that make video as easy as capturing superb images and pressing a button. The fast f/2.0 lens take overwhelming portraits and help you embark upon adverse lightning with good looking, shallow depth of field. Its 12-megapixel sensor ensures crisp, richly detailed images, whereas the 5x optical zoom provides excellent all-around range to shoot far or near. The CMOS sensor of Canon PowerShot S100 combined with all-new DIGIC 5 processor produces Canon HS System for enhanced low light performance and enhanced photo quality up to ISO 6400. It allows you to capture stunning 1080p full HD video in stereo sound with dedicated zoom and movie button, while playback and shooting on a HD television via HDMI output. The Intelligent IS automatically chooses from 6 different modes to optimize image stabilization for shooting situation. Besides Canon HS System, the combination of highly developed CMOS sensor and new DIGIC 5 processor in S100 enables you to shoot crisp, clear HD video. Besides being able to shoot full HD video at 24 frames per second, the PowerShot S100 can also shoot 720p HD video at 30fps.

The Canon PowerShot S100 is surely a great little camera for advanced users who don’t mind slowing down a bit from dSLR. It’s a popular, very good device with some commonly complained about flaws including relatively expensive price tag, poor flash design, slow performance, lack of grip, short battery life and narrow maximum aperture at telephoto end of zoom range. It provides plenty of desirable features, which include built in GPS, wider angle 24mm start to zoom range, manual controls and zooming during video. Despite slight bump up in resolution, it offers excellent image quality that contributes to the attractiveness of S95 model. Tonal range, metering and exposure and color accuracy on Canon PowerShot S100 are good, while the lens is relatively sharp. The S100 boasts a similar LCD display like the one found on S95 and saturated and pretty usable and bright in direct sunlight. Its design improves on some flaws of S95, and now gets small grip at front with rubberized thumb rest at the rear, which makes it easier to hold and shoot. The PowerShot S100 comes with control ring around lens that differentiates it from other models, except ZX-1. The ring can be set to control its function when in Custom mode, shutter speed, aspect ratio, ISO sensitivity, i-Contrast, exposure compensation, stepped zoom, white balance and manual focus. The stepped zoom can be astonishingly useful for some, which jumps to famous popular focal lengths, including 120mm, 24mm, 85mm, 50mm and 28mm. The Canon PowerShot S100 allows you to rapidly access ring control assignments via dedicated button at the back. On the top, there is a shutter button with mode dial, which has usual scene, PASM, movie and auto modes alongside custom settings slot and special effects mode. The custom settings that save include zoom position, manual focus position and My Menu items; in addition tout the relevant shooting settings. At the rear, there are usual set of controls including focus mode, flash and exposure compensation alongside quick function access and dedicated movie record button. It is offered for $429.99 and comes with ISO sensitivity range from 80 to 6400, 12-megapixel CMOS sensor, 2.3 frames per second of continuous shooting, 24-120mm f2-5.9 5x lens, optical image stabilization, optical zoom while recording and three-inch display with 461,000 pixels. The Canon PowerShot S100 comes standard with 12.1 Megapixels, 1/1.7-inch CMOS sensor; Type: small digital camera with 4x Digital/5x Optical 20x Combined Zoom with built-in flash and Optical Image Stabilizer System; TTL Autofocus, Manual; Auto & Manual Focus: 1.2 in (3 cm) - infinity (W), 12 in (30 cm) - infinity (T); ISO Sensitivity: 80, Auto, 125, 100, 200, 160, 320, 250, 500, 400, 800, 640, 1250, 1000, 2000, 1600, 3200, 2500, 5000, 6400 and 4000; 3.0-inch TFT Color with 461,000 dots and wide viewing angle; Exposure Control Method: i-Contrast, Program AE, AE Lock, Manual; Light Metering Method: Center weighted average, Spot and Evaluative and Safety Shift, Program Shift and Auto ISO Shift. Also standard on Canon PowerShot S100 are Built-in Flash: Auto, Auto with Red-eye Reduction, Flash On, Flash On with Red-eye Reduction, Flash Off and FE lock; White Balance Control: Auto, Day Light, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Flash, Custom and Underwater; Slow Synchro and Safety FE; Shooting Modes: Movie Digest, Portrait, Landscape, Kids & Pets, Smart Shutter, High-Speed Burst HQ, Handheld Night Scene, Beach, Underwater, Foliage, Snow, Fireworks, Nostalgic, Stitch Assist, Miniature Effect, High Dynamic Range, Monochrome, Fish-eye Effect, Poster Effect, Toy Camera Effect, Color Swap, Super Vivid, iFrame Movie, Color Accent, Smile, Standard, Face Self-timer, Wink Self-timer and Super Slow Motion Movie. The Canon PowerShot S100 adds Storage Media: Eye-Fi and SD/SDHC/SDXC Memory Cards; Photo Effects: My Colors Off, Vivid, Vivid Blue, Vivid Green, Vivid Red, Neutral, Sepia, Black & White, Positive Film, Lighter Skin Tone, Darker Skin Tone and Custom; Number of Recording Pixels 3:2: Large: 4000 x 2664, Medium 1: 2816 x 1880, Medium 2: 1600 x 1064 and Small: 640 x 424; 4:3: Large: 4000 x 3000, Medium 1: 2816 x 2112, Medium 2: 1600 x 1200, Small: 640 x 480 and RAW: 4000 x 3000 and 16:9: Large: 4000 x 2248, Medium 1: 2816 x 1584, Medium 2: 1920 x 1080 and Small: 640 x 360. The Canon PowerShot S100 gains 4:5: Large: 2400 x 3000, Medium 1: 1696 x 2112, Medium 2: 960 x 1200 and Small: 384 x 480; 1:1: Large: 2992 x 2992, Medium 1: 2112 x 2112, Medium 2: 1200 x 1200 and Small: 480 x 480; Playback Modes File: Still Image: Single, Magnification, Jump, Auto Rotate, Rotate, Resume, My Category, Transition Effects, Histogram, Index, Over Exposure Warning, Slide Show, Red-eye Correction, Trimming, Resize, i-Contrast and Image Inspection Tool; Movie: Normal Playback, Special Playback, Editing, Resume and Auto Rotate and 27 display languages: English, German, French, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Thai, Arabic, Romanian, Ukrainian, Farsi and Hindi. On the whole, it is a still camera, which provides excellent image quality with plethora of manual capabilities including wide aperture lens.

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