Canon Powershot S20

Canon Powershot S20 ... proud to announce the world's first 3-megapixel compact digital camera. The incredible PowerShot S20 is the highest specification compact class digital camera that offers a massive 2,048 x 1,536 pixel resolution coupled with a super lightweight body, a retractable high quality 32-64mm (35mm film equivalent) zoom lens plus 4x digital teleconverter, and serial/USB interface.

PowerShot S20 draws on Canon's camera making heritage, offering responsive handling to match conventional film cameras. Extreme simplicity of use, enhanced by extensive preset and user definable functions, make PowerShot S20 a market leader for the new millenium. Fitted with an extensive range of advanced fully automatic digital functions including TTL (through the lens) metering and automatic white balance, PowerShot S20 is ideal for people who know very little about photography, but want to produce professional quality images. For the more advanced user, PowerShot S20's image mode has settings to cope with landscape, fast moving subjects (sports), slow shutter, night time shooting and black and white, while PowerShot S20's program mode offers full control of image resolution, compression, exposure compensation, flash, white balance, sharpening and contrast for maximum control over the final image. The PowerShot S20's extremely high quality, high-resolution images can be stored on either standard CompactFlash memory cards, or for hundreds of high quality images the CF Type II slot accommodates IBM's impressive microdrives. Digital signal processing technology ensures that the data from the high quality large images is processed and stored in record time. This makes sure the camera is always ready for the next shot. PowerShot S20 features an expanded playback function that lets you zoom in on an image by 2.5x. Then using the omni-selector you can scroll the image in the display. Due to the use of a custom DSP PowerShot S20 performs replay, expansion and scrolling at high speeds. The combination of the speed of operation and playback zoom quickly allows you to check the focus of the key points in your images.

PowerShot S20 offers a complete 'out of the box' solution to digital imaging. As standard the camera is supplied with 16MB CompactFlash memory card, rechargeable battery, battery charger, AC adapter, connecting cables (serial/USB/video), software for PC and MAC plus user manuals for both software and hardware.