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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #639 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Canon
• Model: 3476B009AA
• Released on: 2009-02-04
• Dimensions: .31 pounds

Features

• Canon Digital Camera Powershot A480 Blue
  • Canon Powershot A480 10 MP digital camera• Features 3.3x optical zoom, DIGICIII, 15 shooting modes, 1 cm Macro shooting, face detection AF/AE/FE/WB, auto red-eye correction, motion detection techno

Manufacturer's Description

Canon PowerShot A480

Fun, pocket-sized and totally intuitive
Affordable and easy to use the PowerShot A480 has a compact, lightweight design that slips easily into any pocket, plus a relaxed simplicity that make it a natural for beginners and everyone else who wants style and convenience. The 10.0-megapixel resolution and 3.3x optical zoom make it easy to capture every scene in dazzling colour and brilliant detail. The DIGIC III Image Processor keeps all your images looking sharp, while a bright, bold 2.5-inch LCD makes shooting and playback a genuine pleasure. To complete the picture you can also take smooth 30fps VGA video clips.

Advance Scene Detection Technology gets the best from difficult shootng conditions. Click here for a larger image

Simply point and shoot
With the PowerShot A480, dramatic, personal pictures have never been easier to shoot and share. Controlled by a simple button layout, this 10.0-megapixel camera allows you to easily capture every scene in rich detail, ensuring A4 sized prints prints – even of cropped pictures - retain a high image quality you'll be proud display. Meanwhile the 3.3x optical zoom lens lets you frame every picture perfectly.

15 Shooting Modes including 12 Special Scene Modes
When you're taking pictures, the only thing you want to think about is your subject. With the PowerShot A480, you can count on exact focus no matter where your subject is in the frame thanks to a selection of 15 shooting modes including 12 dedicated scene modes such as Kids & Pets, Indoor and Sunset that captures stunning shots with all the fantastic colours when the sun goes down. Simply select the mode you want and let the camera take care of everything else, ensuring breathtaking, exhilarating pictures even when shooting conditions are tough. A special 1cm Super Macro mode even allows you to capture small-scale detail from as close as 1cm away.

Face Detection locates faces in shot and automatically adjusts for natural skin tones. Click here for a larger image

Fast intelligent processing and superb image quality
Canon's DIGIC III processor provides fast response times plus superb image quality and colour reproduction. It also powers a suite of Face and Motion Detection technologies as well as Red-eye Correction to give you better, more true-to-life people shots.

For sharp clear people shots you simply press the shutter button halfway down, and the camera uses Face Detection to automatically pinpoint up to nine faces in a scene, then adjusts focus, exposure, flash setting and white balance for optimal results with natural-looking skin tones. Motion Detection technology uses changes in scene information and scene brightness to accurately identify subject motion. The optimal ISO level is then set automatically to minimise blur and maximise image quality.

Automatic Red-eye Correction is available in both shooting and playback mode and accurately removes the red-eye effect caused by flash.

A world of advantages with Canon technology

Shoot and share rich razor-sharp images - every time
The lens is the most important part of any imaging device and all Canon cameras incorporate lenses designed and manufactured by Canon - lenses based on over 60 years of experience for outstanding results.

An advanced Optical Image Stabilizer keeps moving subjects in sharp focus. Meanwhile framing, reviewing and sharing shots is made easy with a bright 2.5 inch LCD screen, which incorporates a Night Display mode to aid visibility in low light and a selectable Grid Line display to help you compose the perfect shot.

My Colors mode makes your images jump out with really vivid bright colours. Click here for a larger image

Customise and correct colour as you shoot
My Colors Mode lets you customise colour reproduction before shooting and correct individual colours on the LCD screen as you're shooting. My Colors offer you many options, such as 'Positive Film' which makes all the reds, greens and blues really vivid; Lighter and Darker Skin tones; 'Colour Accent' that allows you to retain a single colour in your image whilst the other colours turn monochrome and even a 'Colour Swap' where you can select one colour and replace it with another colour you specify for special effects. Since they work with both still images and movies, these modes let you enjoy producing various image or movie effects.

Box Contains

PowerShot A480

Wrist Strap WS-800

32MB Memory Card

2 AA-size Alkaline Batteries

AV Cable AVC-DC300

Interface Cable IFC-400PCU (for USB)

User Manual Kit

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Customer Reviews

So Easy
Wow! It is so easy to take really good photos with this camera, the big screen allows you to compose the scene and there is very little delay between pressing the button and the picture being taken - a problem I have noticed on other cameras, making it difficult to take picture of animals and kids. I'm impressed!

A very good little camera
I bought this camera after reading the reviews on this site and other photography sites.
After I got over the plastic toy-like feel of the outside I was very impressed by the camera.

Firstly, the normal pictures on auto mode are easy to take, and look very good.
The manual mode is easy to alter all the settings they give you. Things like ISO, white balance, and where to focus, although these all have auto modes if you just want a partially manual mode.

Then there's the different "scenes" i think they are called, like portrait, indoor, kids and pets.
They have some settings pre-set for shooting the type of picture the mode is designed for.
The special modes actually have other things. I think sunset makes it look more red, I haven't tried fireworks yet.

Normally you don't get to alter the shutter speed, it is automatic, but in long shutter speed mode, you can set it between 1second and 15 seconds. I was very impressed at the photo taken by candlelight (just 3 candles in the room and the other two far away) the whole room was well lit up, you could see better on the photo than by just looking, and my eyes had already adjusted to the dark. on 15s shutter, it needs a tripod or resting on something otherwise you get a very shaky photo and of course your subject will leave lines and blurs if it moves anywhere.

The other mode that is particularly special is super macro mode. Normally in all the other modes you can set the focal length between infinity, normal, and macro (I haven't tested these properly to find out where each best focal range is) but on super macro mode you can literally have the camera touching the subject. I have taken a photo of a 1p coin with only about 7mm between the coin and the front of the lens, and the picture is perfectly in focus.

The video mode I have found takes up memory very quickly on your SD card, however this is because it is good quality video, recording at 640*480, with sound. Whilst you are not able to adjust the optical zoom during filming, you can change the digital zoom if you want to. Personally I never use digital zoom on photos because I always think you can zoom in later digitally so there isn't any point, but on a video, it is hard to zoom in later without proper editing software. Another thing I like about the video is that it uses progressive scan, which means it repeatedly displays complete pictures like a cinema. This is as opposed to my mini-DV camera which is interlaced (for display on a CRT monitor or old TV) and when shown on a computer LCD screen has lots of horizontal lines when things move.

I think its probably just my camera, and if it gets worse I'll send it back and get it repaired/replaced but very occasionally I get vertical lines of a purple ish colour on the LCD viewer. I think its just part of the screen on the camera because I can't see any lines ever on the photos.

To summarise this is a fantastic little camera that can do everything I'll need it to do, whilst being small enough to fit in my pocket. I'm not a professional who needs an SLR camera for difficult shots, but I can take very up close shots, night-time shots, portraits and videos which all look very good. Definitely a recommended buy.

Canon Powershot Review by R.A. Davidson
Very happy with the quality of outdoor photographs and simplicity of operation. Less convinced so far about indoor photographs but that may be a reflection of my failure to grasp how to operate the camera rather than the quality of its flash photography. The Canon programme for transfer of photographs to the PC is both very easy to operate with clear instructions and very versatile. I'm pleased with the camera and its accessories.
RAD - 12/7/09Canon Powershot A480 Digital Camera - Blue (10 MP, 3.3x Optical Zoom) 2.5" LCD