It is Canon PowerShot SD4000IS that tries to present its best shots to you just like other cameras from many brands that are flooding the market. In details, this camera is designed with a 1/2.3 inch backside-illuminated CMOS image sensor that allows the maximum are of the sensor’s active side to be devoted to light gathering. The backside-illuminated also translate to higher sensitivity and to reduced noise levels.
PowerShot SD4000IS comes with ten megapixels and sensitivity that ranges from ISO 125 to ISO 3,200 equivalents. A 3.8x optical zoom lens is presented with focal lengths of 4.9 to 18.6mm, and a helpful wide angle to a moderate telephoto of equivalent to a range of 28mm to 105mm on a 35mm camera. Moreover, you will be provided with maximum aperture that varies from a bright f/2.0 wide angle to f/5.3 at telephoto, whereas the minimum aperture is f/8.0. It is great to know that a true optical image stabilization system has been integrated to this PowerShot SD4000IS and it is be able to fight the blur caused by camera shake.
In further details, the display is presented through a 3.0-inch diagonal with 230.000 dots of resolution and the LCD coverage is reported to be 100%. If you look closer, you may find the fair degree of control over the look of pictures available since this PowerShot SD4000 provides several significant choices such as Auto, Program Auto, Aperture or Shutter priority, and fourteen scene modes consists of Portrait, Kids & Pets, Indoor, Smart Shutter, Low Light, Night Snapshot, Color Swap, Fisheye Effect, Color Accent, Beach, Miniature Effect, Foliage, Fireworks, and Snow. Other features included are the seven white balance modes as well as the Auto, five presets, and manual. Moreover, the seven mode flash strobe that is available with a range of one to 20 feet at wide angle or 1.6 to 6.6 feet at telephoto. However, it is unfortunate that you will not find the manual exposure and optical or electronic viewfinder.
Furthermore, compared to any PowerShot Digital ELPH camera, the burst shooting this Canon PowerShot SD4000IS is the fastest because it is able to perform up to 8.4 frames per second. Besides producing the still images at resolutions up to 3.648 x 2.736 pixels, SD4000IS offers you the high definition movie clips record at 720p (1.280 x 720). Also, the standard definition clips at the resolution of VGA (640 x 480) or the QVGA (320 x 240). Specifically, the overall resolutions offer a frame rate of 30 frames per second, while the QVGA resolution offers the secondary rate that record at 240fps, however the play back is only performed at 30fps especially for an effective of super slow motion mode. In addition, this camera will record all movies in Motion JPEG AVI format and supported with stereo audio.
The memory storage for the images captured as well as the videos recorded is in the form of Secure Digital, SDXC or SDHC cards. The camera also provides you the memory storage compatibility with MMC, MMCplus, and HC MMCplus cards. The wireless-capable Eye-Fi storage cards can also be used to store all images and movies. To transfer the all images and movies into your PC, there are NTSC / PAL standard definition composite video and USB 2.0 High Speed data. Additionally, the camera will be able to make approximately 250 captures for it has been empowered with NB-6L lithium-ion rechargeable battery.
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