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The PowerShot SX150 IS ultra-zoom digital camera captures beautiful still images and great high-definition video. Built to handle a wide range of shooting situations with ease and accuracy, the SX150 IS is equipped with features such as impressive zoom, a new Intelligent Image Stabilization (IS) system, Smart AUTO with 32 shooting scenes, High-Speed Burst mode and HD video capture. The 12x optical zoom lens with Canon's Optical Image Stabilization technology helps achieve brilliant images when capturing distant objects. Helping to capture blur-free images and video, Canon introduces the new Intelligent IS system. To deliver crisp, undistorted images in various shooting conditions, Intelligent IS automatically chooses from six different modes (Normal, Macro, Panning Dynamic, Powered and Tripod) to optimize image stabilization. Continuing to serve its dual functionality, the SX150 IS camera also shoots 720p HD video with stereo sound for outstanding video quality. The camera can optically zoom while filming and has a dedicated movie button for quick access to the video-recording mode.

Up close or far away, the 14.1 Megapixel SX150 IS's high-powered 12x Optical Zoom with Optical Image Stabilizer and Canon's DIGIC 4 Image Processor ensures razor-sharp clarity and blur-free beauty. Even viewing is easy: the large, wide 3.0-inch LCD makes framing your shot effortless. The SX150 IS from Canon takes "easy" to the max at a great value, and is lightweight enough to go anywhere. Power it all up with two AA batteries.

Canon PowerShot SX150 IS Key Features

Canon PowerShot SX150 IS Digital Camera Supplied Accessories:

• Two AA-Type Alkaline Batteries
• Wrist Strap WS-800
• USB Interface Cable IFC-400PCU
• Digital Camera Solution CD-ROM

720p HD (1280 x 720 Pixels at 30 fps) Video

The PowerShot SX150 IS is the perfect combination of still camera and extraordinary video maker. The SX150 IS can shoot HD video with stereo sound while using the optical zoom, offering better versatility and image quality so you can fully capture those fun, memorable moments. Videos are recorded in spectacularly detailed 720p HD with clear stereo sound. Better yet, you can now zoom in and out as your creativity demands, without losing a bit of the 720p HD resolution. Given the SX150 IS's powerful 12x Wide-Angle Optical Zoom, this capability is especially meaningful.

When it comes to capturing a child walking for the first time or a person diving into a pool on vacation, shooting HD video is the ideal option. With Canon's legacy of delivering exceptional photos, the PowerShot SX150 IS digital camera helps to drive users beyond the still and encourage them to explore the world of HD video. It also helps a person to relive the experience when looking back at the images. This feature offer extraordinary resolution, color and clarity to all cherished moments. Combined with stereo sound, the inclusion of HD video capabilities, along with outstanding still image quality, help make the PowerShot SX150 IS the ultimate image-capture device.

Genuine Canon Lens with Wide-Angle 12x Optical Zoom, 48x Digital Zoom

Whether you're at a sporting event, school play, or just out and about shooting, you'll love how the SX130's powerful wide-angle 12x Optical Zoom gets you up close fast and puts more image into every frame. The PowerShot SX150 IS digital camera's 12x zoom lens has an equivalent film focal length of 28-336 mm (f/3.4 at wide angle and f/5.6 at telephoto). Despite the extraordinary range of the zoom lens, it retracts securely into the camera when it is powered down. The optical zoom can be augmented by the camera's 4x digital zoom raising the maximum (35mm equivalent) focal length to that of a 1344mm lens.

Canon's heritage as an imaging company dates back over 70 years to the company's founding in 1934. Since then, Canon has worked hard to perfect the process of creating extremely high-quality optics for its line of imaging products and is now the world's largest manufacturer of cameras and lenses. Canon is a global leader in optical design, with many advanced and original technologies that allow Canon users to achieve the sharpest images possible.

Canon Optical Image Stabilizer (IS) Technology

Unlike electronic image stabilizer systems that typically cause degradation of image quality, Canon's Lens Shift Optical IS system is based on the advancements made in the development and refinement of Canon's EF and video lenses. The Canon Image Stabilizer uses gyroscopic 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-photos taken while zoomed in and at slower shutter speeds are not blurry, even without a tripod.

Intelligent IS

One of the most important innovations for a point-and-shoot camera has been Image Stabilization (IS) since it helps improve image quality by reducing camera blur for both images and videos. Canon has taken this technology one step further with the Intelligent IS which automatically chooses from six different modes (Normal, Macro, Panning, Dynamic, Powered, Tripod) to optimize image stabilization and help achieve crisp, blur-free images for various shooting conditions.

DIGIC 4 Image Processor

Developed to speed up all operations between shooting and recording images, the DIGIC 4 Image Processor ensures that the PowerShot SX150 IS operates as quickly and intuitively as possible. Thanks to the DIGIC 4 Image Processor, the implementation of new technologies like Face Detection Self-Timer and Intelligent Contrast Correction do not slow down the camera's performance, or drain excessive battery power, ensuring that no matter the shot, you're always ready to go.

DIGIC 4, one of Canon's most advanced image processors ever, builds on the superb performance of its DIGIC II and DIGIC III predecessors. As the "nerve center" of the camera, DIGIC 4 brings excellence to many areas. Images have brilliant color and smoother gradations, and performance is fast and responsive. DIGIC 4 also empowers some of Canon's newest and most advanced features including Blink Detection, Face Detection, Face Detection Self-Timer and ISO 3200 for images in low light with improved noise reduction. DIGIC 4 not only allows higher ISO settings for beautiful images in low light or fast action shots, but also reduces the resulting 'noise' to keep image quality at its best.

14.1 Megapixel CCD

14.1 megapixels of resolution give your photography incomparable depth and ensure that any section of any shot can be enlarged and cropped with no loss in quality when you edit the image and even in large printout. It creates crisp, clear 13" x 19" posters.

iFrame Movie Support

With the PowerShot SX150 IS, you can also shoot video in the Apple™ iFrame format, a computer-friendly standard that speeds up importing and editing of videos. It keeps file sizes small, making it more convenient to upload or e-mail high-quality videos. The iFrame format enjoys native support in compatible Mac and Windows video applications, making it unnecessary to perform time-consuming and often quality-degrading conversions.

Extra Large 3-inch LCD Monitor With Wide Viewing Angle

The SX150 IS digital camera features a generous 3.0-inch, 230,000-pixel color TFT LCD screen with a wide viewing angle making images easier to preview and review, and camera menus easier to read in a wide range of lighting conditions. This high-resolution screen offers a crisp, clear picture to make shooting, playback and using the camera's menu functions especially convenient. Clear and bright, it also features Night Display for easy viewing in low light.

Advanced Smart AUTO

Simply point and shoot and Smart AUTO makes your ordinary picture exceptional. The system detects and analyzes faces, brightness, colors, distance and movement, then compensates and enhances to make every image the best it can be by selecting an appropriate setting for the scene. Smart AUTO selects the proper settings for the camera based on 32 predefined shooting situations. The system detects the shooting situation and shows you the result on screen.

Advanced Face Detection AF/AE/FE/WB Technology

Your most cherished image often feature faces, and Canon's advanced Face Detection Technology gives every face its best chance to shine. With Canon's Advanced Face Detection AF/AE/FE/WB function, the SX150 IS can detect, lock on, and track up to 35 human faces in a scene. It can even detect profiles. The face detection algorithm automatically prioritizes and selects faces (based on Canon's Intelligent Scene Analysis/iSAPS technology). It will then optimize the focus, exposure, white balance and flash to help ensure the best possible results for even easier picture taking moments. The result is flattering portraits and group shots where all of the subjects are in clearer focus and accurately exposed.

Smart Shutter Technology (Smile Self-Timer, Wink Self-Timer, Face Detection Self-Timer)

The Canon PowerShot SX150 IS has Smart Shutter technology, which detects faces in the scene and releases the shutter automatically in response to the appearance of an additional face, or when a smile or sassy wink occurs. These technologies help to make your photography less rushed and more natural, so getting the perfect shot is even easier.

Easy Mode For Shooting and Easy Playback Mode

When you're taking pictures, the only thing you want to think about is your subject. That's why the PowerShot SX150 IS is equipped with Canon's Easy Mode that works in the background to handle all the technical details for you. Now you can relax and concentrate on choosing just the right angle, capturing the perfect expression, framing your shot perfectly. To make showing off your images just as carefree, the SX150 IS features the new Easy Playback mode that makes viewing single images and slideshows on the camera effortless -- even if you're new to digital photography.

25 Shooting Modes, Including Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Creative Filter Modes and Special Scene Modes

The Canon SX150 IS offers a wide variety of shooting modes to optimize the camera's performance based on user preferences or shooting conditions. These modes include:

• Smart AUTO - The camera chooses all the settings so you can concentrate on your subject (also available for videos).
• Easy: Easy mode is perfect for new photographers: just press the shutter button for fail-proof images.
• Program - Access advanced exposure compensation features while shooting mostly automatically.
• Shutter Speed Priority: Select from a range of shutter speeds while the camera sets an appropriate aperture.
• Aperture Priority: Set the aperture to control depth-of-field while the camera selects shutter speed.
• Manual: The ultimate in creative control, you set aperture and shutter speed.
• Discreet: Disables flash, AF assist beam, and all camera sounds with one mode dial setting - so you can capture images in quiet areas.
• Movie: - Standard, iFrame Movie
• 9 Special Scene Modes
• 8 Creative Filter Modes

9 Special Scene Modes

The Special Scene modes allow users to achieve optimum results in popular picture-taking situations including:

1. Portrait - The camera sets a large aperture, focuses the subject and artistically blurs the background to make your subject "pop".
2. Landscape - The camera uses smaller apertures when possible for increased depth-of-field on sweeping vistas.
3. Kids & Pets - Shoot moving subjects without losing your chance to get those unforgettable moments.
4. Smart Shutter - Smile Self-Timer, Wink Self-Timer, Face Detection Self-Timer
5. Low Light - For high quality image capture in an amazing range of dimly-lit situations.
6. Foliage - Capture brilliant shots of autumn foliage, greenery and flowers.
7. Snow - Shoot clear snow scenes without darkened subjects and bluish tint.
8. Beach - Get clear shots of people at a sunny beach without darkened faces.
9. Fireworks - Grab brilliant images of skyrocketing fireworks.

8 Creative Filter Modes

The Creative Filters mode dial setting provides easy access to special filter effect and scene modes. The Canon PowerShot SX150 HS offers creative effects (Miniature Effect, Fisheye Effect) similar to those found in professional lenses.

1. Fisheye Effect - Uses barrel distortion to warp the image around the center, giving a distinctive curvature effect to the photo. The curvilinear images produced by Fisheye Effect can suggest the curve of the Earth, the inside of a dome, or the image you see through the peephole of a door.
2. Miniature Effect - (also available for videos) Creates an illusion where very large objects appear in miniature proportions. Turn soaring cityscapes into a scene in seemingly dollhouse-like proportions.
3. Toy Camera Effect - Simulates photos taken with "toy" or pinhole cameras, darkening the image at the edges to create a vignette effect.
4. Monochrome - Choose from three single-tone effects: Black-and-White, Sepia, or Blue
5. Super Vivid - Intensifies existing hues, saturating the scene with bright colors.
6. Poster Effect - Combines several similar shades into one color, turning subtle gradations into eye-catching, scene-popping contrasts.
7. Color Accent - Choose to retain a single color in your image while other colors turn monochrome.
8. Color Swap - Enables users to alter specific colors in an image by sampling another color from the same image or any other image on the camera's memory card.

Intelligent Contrast Correction

DIGIC 4 also makes possible the new i-Contrast (Intelligent Contrast Correction) system, which controls the compensation level in pixel units to brighten dark areas while leaving bright areas unchanged for better images where the main subject is dark, and more natural transition.

Motion Detection Technology

Canon's Motion Detection Technology makes it easier than ever to capture a clear, sharp image every time. As you compose your photos and snap away, it automatically optimizes ISO settings based on change of brightness and frame interval information, and motion detected by Optical Image Stabilizer, Face Detection, AE function and AF technology.

Advanced Red-eye Correction

Red-eye Correction provides three options for removing red-eye from subjects in flash pictures. The Red-eye Correction during shooting actually identifies and corrects red-eye in human subjects as pictures are taken. The SX150 IS can be set to automatically detect and correct red-eye during image playback. You can manually locate any red eyes in a scene during image playback on the LCD screen, and command the camera to remove them.

Canon iSAPS Technology

Over the past 68 years, Canon has accumulated a vast amount of photographic data and know-how and used it to create some of the most innovative camera products in the marketplace. Now, using that same data and know-how, Canon has developed an exclusive technology called iSAPS (Intelligent Scene Analysis based on Photographic Space) that can predict certain camera settings such as focusing distance, exposure and optimum white balance based on zoom focal length, overall light level and tonal distribution data. Canon refers to this collective data as "Photographic Space." By incorporating iSAPS technology into its PowerShot line, the cameras can analyze a scene just before the image is made and in doing so, increase the speed and precision of the camera's autofocus, auto exposure and auto white balance.

My Colors Function

My Colors lets you customize color before shooting and correct individual colors on the LCD screen as you shoot! Whether the desired effect is to make the color more real or surreal, these digital dynamos are capable of capturing and saving both the original still image and the enhanced color versions as separate files on the camera's SD memory card.

Twelve modes offer many options:

• Vivid Green - Add vivid dimension to greens for extraordinary nature shots.
• Vivid Red - Charge up red objects in your images for extra impact.
• Vivid Blue - Emphasize the sea, sky, or other blue areas.
• Lighter Skin Tone - Lighten your subjects' skin tones paler.
• Darker Skin Tone - Darken skin tones a shade.
• Color Accent - Choose to retain a single color in your image while other colors turn monochrome.
• Color Swap - Enables users to alter specific colors in an image by sampling another color from the same image or any other image on the camera's memory card.
• Positive Film - Combines Vivid Red, Vivid Green and Vivid Blue to achieve a positive film effect.
• Neutral Color - Produces images of subtle, elegant tonality.
• Sepia - Recreates the look of vintage photographs.
• Black & White - Delivers enhanced clarity -- especially useful when shooting text.
• Custom Color - Set balance of red, green, blue and skin colors; finely adjust brightness and vividness.

Fast and Responsive Shutter

The Canon PowerShot SX150 IS has a maximum shutter speed of 1/2500 second and can capture full-size still photos continuously at rates up to 1.0 fps.

White Balance Control

A choice of preset White Balance settings gives you natural-looking images under almost any lighting condition. There's Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H and Flash. Select the one that fits your environment. You can also create and store a custom setting by focusing on a piece of white paper under your light source.

Evaluative Metering, Center-Weighted Average Metering and Spot Metering

Three light-metering modes are available for precise exposure. Canon's sophisticated Evaluative metering is the ideal metering choice for most situations. There's also Center-weighted metering, which is perfect for shooters who prefer to dial in their own exposure compensation. Finally, for the utmost precision, there's Spot metering -- which can measure a tiny area at the center of the image.

Built-in Pop-up Flash

Shooting with flash never slows down the action. The Built-in Pop-up Flash retracts when not in use, and you can opt to allow the flash to pop up and fire automatically whenever the camera detects a low ambient light situation. The camera's 3-mode built-in flash includes Red-Eye Reduction.

Canon PowerShot SX150 IS Specifications

Type of Camera:

Compact digital still camera with built-in flash and Optical image stabilizer (OIS) system, 12x optical zoom/ 4x digital zoom/ 48x combined zoom

Image Capture Device:

14.5 million pixel gross, 1/2.3-inch type Charge Coupled Device (CCD), Approx. 14.1 Million Effective Pixels

Lens:

5.0-60.0mm, f/3.4-f/5.6 zoom lens (equivalent to 28-336mm in 35mm format)

Optical Zoom

12x

Digital Zoom

4x

Focus Range:

Auto: 0.4 in. (1cm) - infinity (WIDE), 3.3 ft. (1m) - infinity (TELE) Normal AF: 2.0 in. / 5 cm - infinity (WIDE), 3.3 ft./1 m - infinity (TELE)
Macro: 0.4 in. / 1 cm - 1.6 ft. / 50 cm (WIDE)

Autofocus System

TTL Autofocus; Single (Continuous in Auto and Easy modes), Servo AF, Servo AE, Manual Focus

Maximum Aperture

f/3.4 (W), f/5.6 (T)

Shutter Speed:

1-1/2500 sec.
15-1/2500 sec. (Total shutter speed range)

ISO Sensitivity:

Auto or User Set ISO 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 equivalent (Standard Output Sensitivity. Recommended Exposure Index)

Exposure Control:

Program AE, Manual; AE Lock, Program Shift, Safety Shift, Auto ISO Shift

Light Metering Method:

Evaluative (Control to incorporate facial brightness in Face Detection AF), Center-weighted average or Spot metering (Metering frame when spot is center fixed)

Exposure Compensation:

+/- 2.0 EV in 1/3 step increments (not available when shooting movies)

White Balance Control:

Auto*, Pre-set (Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H) and Custom White Balance
* The color of faces is evaluated in Face Detect

Built-in Flash Modes:

Auto, Auto w/ Red-Eye Reduction, Flash On, Flash Off; FE lock, Safety FE, Slow Synchro

Flash Range (when sensitivity is set to ISO Auto):

Normal: 1.6-9.8 ft./50cm - 3.0m (W), 3.3-6.6 ft./1.0m-2.0m (T)

Flash Recycling Time:

12 sec. or less (battery voltage=3.0V)
LCD monitor is turned off during flash charging (Except when turning on the power)

Flash Exposure Compensation:

+/-2 stops in 1/3-stop increments

Viewfinder:

None

LCD Monitor:

3.0-inch low-temperature polycrystalline sillicon TFT color LCD with wide viewing angle, Approx. 230,000 pixels, LCD Coverage 100%

Resolution (Recording Pixels):

Still Image: 4000 x 3000 (Large), 2816 x 2112 (Medium 1), 1600 x 1200 (Medium 2), 640 x 480 (Small), 4000 x 2248 (Widescreen); Fixed to 1600 x 1200 when in Low Light
Movie: High Definition: 1280 x 720 (30 fps); Standard Definition: 640 x 480 (30 fps), 320 x 240 (30 fps) Available up to 4GB or 29 min. 59 sec. (HD)/60 min. (SD) per clip

Resolution (Recording Pixels):

Still Image: 4320 x 3240 (Large), 3072 x 2304 (Medium 1), 1600 X 1200 (Medium 2), 640 x 480 (Small), 4320 x 2432 (Widescreen)
Movie: HD 1280 x 720 (30 fps*), 640 x 480 (30 fps*), 320 x 240 (30 fps*)
Miniature Effect Movie: HD 1280 x 720 (6 fps, 3 fps, 1.5 fps); 640 x 480 (6 fps, 3 fps, 1.5 fps)
* Actual frame rate is 29.97 fps

File Size: (average)

• Small/Normal - 84 KB
• Small/Fine - 150 KB
• Med. 2/Normal - 278 KB
• Med. 2/Fine - 588 KB
• Med. 1/Normal - 902 KB
• Med. 1/Fine - 1897 KB
• Large/Normal - 1719 KB
• Large/Fine - 3597 KB
• Widescreen/Normal - 986 KB
• Widescreen/Fine - 2024 KB
• Med. Low Light/Normal - 278 KB
• Med. Low Light/Fine - 558 KB
• Movie HD 1280 x 720, 30 fps - 3054 KB/sec.
• Movie 640 x 480, 30 fps - 1416 KB/sec.
• iFrame Movie 1280 x 720 (HD), 30 fps - 4701 KB/sec.

Image Storage Capacity:

Storage capacity varies depending on the scene or the subjects. This data is estimated from Canon's standard shooting conditions. Figures for Movie Mode represent total capacity of SD Memory Card. The values given above vary depending on the subject, shooting conditions and shooting mode.

Shooting Modes:

Smart AUTO (also available for videos), P, Av, Tv, M, Easy, Special Scene (Portrait, Landscape, Kids & Pets, Smart Shutter {Smile, Wink-Self-timer, Face Self-timer}, Low Light, Beach, Foliage, Snow, Fireworks), Creative Filters(Fish-eye Effect, Miniature Effect, Toy Camera Effect, Monochrome, Super Vivid, Poster Effect, Color Accent, Color Swap), Discreet, Movie (Standard, iFrame Movie)

Photo Effect:

My Colors: Off, Vivid, Neutral, Positive Film, Lighter Skin, Darker Skin, Vivid Blue, Vivid Green, Vivid Red, Sepia, B/W, Custom Color (adjustment of contrast, sharpness, saturation, red, green, blue and skin tone are available)

Self-Timer:

Activates shutter after an approx. 2-sec./10-sec. delay, Custom*, Face Self-Timer**
* Shooting start time (0-15 sec. (in 1-second increments), 20/25/30 sec.) and number of shots (1-10 (in one-shot increments)) can be specified.
** When the number of detected faces increases, the shutter is released after 2 sec. delay. However, if no face is detected for 30 seconds or more, the shooting operation starts automatically.

Continuous Shooting

Normal: Approx. 0.9 shots/sec. (in P mode); Approx. 3.2 shots/sec. (in Low Light mode)
AF: Approx. 0.6 shots/sec. (in P mode); Approx. 1.0 shots/sec. (in Low Light mode)
LV: Approx. 0.6 shots/sec. (in P mode); Approx. 1.1 shots/sec. (in Low Light mode)

Under conditions where the flash does not fire automatically. Differs depending on the zoom position

Image Compression Modes:

Normal, Fine

File Format:

Design rule for Camera File system, DPOF Version 1.1 (Digital Print Order Format) compliant

Image Recording Format:

Still Image: JPEG (Exif 2.3 compliant); Movie: MOV (Image data: H.264; Audio data: Linear PCM (stereo))

Recording Media:

SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card, Eye-Fi

Playback Modes:

Still Images and Videos: Easy, Auto Rotate, Scroll Display, Rotate, Favorites, My Category, Jump, Smart Shuffle, Filtered Playback
Still Images: Single, Index, Magnification (Approx. 2x-10x), Information Display, Resume Playback, Red-Eye Correction, i-Contrast, Trimming, Resize, My Colors, Focus Check, Histogram, Overexposure Warning
Videos: Normal Playback, Special Playback

Erase Modes:

Still Image: single image, all images
Movie: any movie file

Interfaces:

Computer Interface: USB 2.0 Hi-Speed dedicated connector (female) with unified type of digital audio and video, mini-B compatible
Video Output: NTSC or PAL selectable
Audio Out: Stereo
Other: Memory card slot. Direct connection to Canon CP, SELPHY, PIXMA Photo Printers and PictBridge compatible printers via camera's USB 2.0 Hi-Speed cable.

Power Sources:

Size AA Alkaline battery (x2)
Size AA NiMH battery (NB4-300, optional - 4 included, 2 required)
AC Adapter Kit ACK-800 (optional)

Shooting Capacity:

Still Image*: approx. 110 shots (AA-size Alkaline Battery); approx. 320 shots (AA-size NiMH Battery)
Playback Time: Approx. 7 hours (AA-size Alkaline Battery); approx. 9 hours (AA-size NiMH Battery)

* LCD screen on. The above figures comply with CIPA testing standards and apply when a fully-charged battery is used.

Operating Range:

Operating Temperature: 32 - 104º F (0 - 40º C); Operating Humidity 10 - 90%

Dimensions (W x H x D):

4.46 x 2.88 x 1.80 in. (113.3 x 73.2 x 45.8mm)

Weight (Camera body only):

Approx. 9.0 oz. (258g)

All data are based on Canon's Standard Test Method. Subject to change without notice.

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