Canon Review : Canon PowerShot SD780IS

Executive summary about Canon Review by Bruce Walls

canon powershot SD780IS

The Canon PowerShot SD780IS was introduced to the US market early March 2009 and has many great features. It is the slimmest digital ELPH Canon has produced so far but its small body packs a real punch. The camera comes in four colors, black, silver, gold and deep red. It is a 12.1 MP digital camera with a 2.5 inch LCD and a 3x optical image stabilised zoom. It has HD movie shooting capability and HDMI output. Lets you record video in beautiful high definition (1280 x 720 pixels).

By setting the Canon Powershot SD780IS to smart auto the camera will automatically selects an appropriate setting from 18 specially defined settings. You just have to concentrate on shooting the picture, Canon technology will take care of the rest. If you are taking a group photo and want to include the photographer just put the camera on a tripod and select Face Detection Self Timer. The camera will now wait for the photographer face to move into the frame before it takes the perfectly focused shot. This is possible because of the advanced DIGIC 4 image processor on board the camera.

Red eye correction is not new but the Canon Powershot SD780IS provides three options for removing red eye from your flash photographs. Firstly red eye is detected and corrected during shooting, secondly the camera can be set to automatically detect and correct red-eye during image playback. Finally you can manually locate any red eyes in a scene during image playback on the LCD screen, and command the camera to remove them.

Another piece of technology on board the Canon PowerShot SD780IS is iSAPS. Using an internal database of thousands of different photos, iSAPS works with the advanced DIGIC 4 Image Processor to improve focus speed and accuracy, as well as exposure and white balance.

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