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Canon Digital IXUS 980 IS Camera - Silver (14.7MP, 3.7x Optical Zoom) 2.5 inch PureColor LCD II Viewfinder
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Product Description
Canon Ixus 870iS Digital Camera Silver
• Canon Ixus 980 IS digital camera• 14.7 MP camera with 3.7x optical zoom, optical IS, manual control plus 20 other modes, DIGIC 4, face detection, anti-blur motion detection, i-Contrast, 2.5 inch PureColor LCD II plus OVF and VGA movies• Colour: Silver.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #31618 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: Canon
- Model: 3192B006AA
- Released on: 2008-10-17
- Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .35 pounds
Features
- Canon Ixus 870iS Digital Camera Silver
• Canon Ixus 980 IS digital camera• 14.7 MP camera with 3.7x optical zoom, optical IS, manual control plus 20 other modes, DIGIC 4, face detection, anti-blur motion detection, i-Contrast, 2.5 inch Pure
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Manufacturer's Description
The Digital IXUS 980 IS Silver |
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Digital IXUS 980 IS Silver The 14.7 Megapixel Digital IXUS 980 IS blends technical excellence with a unique, stylish black or silver design. Powered by Canon’s latest DIGIC 4 processor, it combines advanced auto features – including Face Detection and Motion Detection Technology – with, for the first time in the IXUS range, Manual Control for setting focus, exposure, shutter speed etc. |
 | Digital IXUS 980 IS Silver Highlights |
 | 14.7 Megapixels The number of megapixels determines the amount of sharp detail a digital camera can record. With more megapixels, you can print at larger sizes, plus crop and enlarge without sacrificing quality. IXUS cameras provide all the resolution you need for finely detailed, photo-quality prints with plenty of scope for post-shoot cropping. A full 14.7 megapixels of resolution ensure rich depth and detail, and lets you enlarge and crop images freely. |
 | 3.7x Optical Zoom The camera's Genuine Canon 3.7x Optical Zoom not only gets you in close, but performs with all the clarity and brilliance you'd expect from the world's leader in advanced optics technology.
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 | Optical Image Stabilizer Any slight shake while hand-holding a camera can cause blurred photos. Canon’s optical Image Stabilizer (IS) technology ensures crisp, clear images by detecting and correcting this camera shake. The camera is able to microscopically adjust its own lens with absolute accuracy up to 4,000 times every second, so the image you see is the image you capture. Image Stabilizer is especially useful at full zoom, which exaggerates camera movements, and in low-light settings that call for slower shutter speeds. |
 | Motion Detection Technology / High ISO/IS Canon’s Motion Detection Technology uses several methods to detect camera and subject movement and set exposure accordingly. The brightness of subject and background, movement of the subject (based on comparison of frames over time) Face Detection information and camera shake information from the optical Image Stabilizer (IS) gyros are all taken into account. Where motion is detected the camera automatically selects the appropriate ISO level to achieve a shot with minimal noise and zero blur. |
 | Face Detection Technology Utilising the power of DIGIC III, Canon’s Face Detection Technology ensures superb people shots by automatically detecting subjects in the frame and setting the correct focus, flash level and exposure. |
 | Red Eye Correction This popular feature can now remove red-eye automatically during shooting, as well as in playback mode. |
 | DIGIC IV Processing the vast amount of data generated by the PowerShot SX1 IS calls for power and speed. Enter DIGIC 4 with iSAPS technology, Canon’s most advanced imaging processor yet. It is the power of DIGIC that delivers the superb image quality, responsive camera performance, faster AF, faster continuous shooting and extended battery life. DIGIC processors are so fast they can read, process, compress and write image data back to the buffer between exposures, reducing the data bottleneck for extended continuous shooting. |
 | 2.5" LCD Screen The camera's 2.5-inch LCD screen gives you the big picture, whether you're shooting, reviewing or showing off your images. This extra-durable, high-resolution screen with tough scratch-resistant coating on the anti-reflective, PureColor LCD II screen offers a crisp, clear picture to make shooting, playback and using the camera's menu functions especially convenient. |
 | Sunset Scene Mode “Sunset” is added to the Special Scene Modes. This mode optimizes settings such as exposure and white balance, thereby making it possible to reproduce brilliant sunset shots.
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 | 30 FPS VGA Movies Shoot super-smooth, VGA-quality movies with sound. In-camera editing gives you creative control and slow-motion playback highlights every precious moment. Choose Long Play mode for stronger compression that allows twice as much video to be stored on your memory card. |
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| My Colours Canon Image Gateway |  |
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Customer Reviews
Stunning
I have never raved about a camera as much as this one. I was going to have the Somy DSC T500 as a replacement of my T30, which was a great camera. I was able to take some of the worst pics ever on the T500 and after 3 days it went back to Amazon for a refund which, as usual, arrived promptly.
This canon is a delight to use and the results are spot on, both with and without flash even my jet black cat looks great. The white balance always seems accurate and so far, have only had to tweak it once in Photoshop. Using the viewfinder is a great boon when shooting rapid exposures as you don't have to wait for the screen to refresh. The battery life is good 120 to 150 pics with the screen on and a lot more if not.
I can't fault this camera
Ixus 980is
This is one hell of a camera from Canon a must buy if your fed up with lugging SLR equipment about but want the same quality of shots for a lot less bother.
Auto and full manual control is incorporated into this camera with all sorts of extra features that is at your fingertips for any shot that you want to take and it is a breeze to operate.
The moment you pick this camera up out of its box you can see and feel the quality your money as paid for and this is also reflected in the quality of the pictures too.
From flash to low light shots this camera never fails to please its bang on with exposure and colour balance producing brilliant shots time after time with fantastic pixel quality to boot.
Macro shots are breath taking in quality showing detail that I have never experienced before with some of the other digitals I have used, so if Macro is your game you are not going to get much better than the 980 at this moment in time at least not in the other compact range that's for sure.
To sum up you get what you pay for in life and with the Canon 980is YOU HAVE , its big bucks for a big performer and this is a camera that is going to be with you for a very long time.
Canon have produced a camera here that is second to none and if the only thing you can knock it on is the video side of it then you're in the wrong game and a compact HD recorder is what you really need.
You won't go wrong with this camera no matter what the subject form from Macro, Portrait, Landscape you name it this camera will do it and do it damned well and it's in silver or black too so what more can you ask for? I give it 20 out of 10 because giving just 10/10 would not be doing it justice.
Thank you Canon for a great product and for listening for once to what the customer wants in their compacts and doing something about it.
Easy to use
I Decided to upgrade my canon ixus 65 ,and chose the canon ixus 980IS and I am not disapointed, it is a brilliant camera, 14.7 mega pixels gives very good results I have printed photo's a4 size with no loss of quality, Highly delighted,I use a canon printer and canon paper and inks and get exellent results, easy to use camera and you have manual settings if you wish, a nice feature is the viewfinder for sunny days when you can not always see the lcd screen,
