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Canon PowerShot SX110 IS Digital Camera - Black (9.0MP, 10x Optical Zoom) 3.0 inch LCD
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| Price: | £223.99 |
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Product Description
The 9.0 Megapixel PowerShot SX110 IS brings special moments closer with a 10x zoom. Face Detection and anti-blur technologies make great people shots effortless, while Easy mode lets all the family get involved. Fitted with optical Image Stabilizer technology to counteract the effect of camera shake and thus ensure crisp, blur-free results throughout the zoom range - a 10x optical zoom brings even distant subjects into view. A 9.0 Megapixel sensor captures sufficient levels of detail for poster-size print...
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #31989 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: Canon
- Model: 3190B009AA
- Released on: 2008-09-20
- Dimensions: .54 pounds
Editorial Reviews
Manufacturer's Description
CanonCam PS SX110
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PowerShot SX110 IS - Black A full range of Canon technologies – including Face Detection Technology, Motion Detection Technology and a new Easy Mode – helps everyone take great photos, while experienced users can also enjoy the creative possibilities offered by full manual control. |
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 | PowerShot SX110 IS - Black Highlights |
 | 9.0 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 9.0 megapixels of resolution ensure rich depth and detail, and lets you enlarge and crop images freely. |
 | 10X Optical Zoom The camera's Genuine Canon 10x 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. |
 | 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 III The massive processing capacity of DIGIC III paves the way for advanced features such as Face Detection Technology and Red-Eye Correction, while exceptional processing speed delivers outstanding responsiveness, fast and accurate auto focus and extended continuous shooting. Linking all key camera functions for maximum efficiency, all DIGIC processors achieve brilliant image detail, clarity and colour reproduction,while delivering long, high quality movies and more shots from a single charge. |
 | 3.0" LCD Screen The camera's 3.0-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. |
 | Easy Mode The PowerShot SX110 IS adds new Easy shooting mode. Suitable for complete beginners, Easy mode uses Motion Detection Technology to combat blur and automatically switches between normal and Macro AF when necessary. For extra simplicity the displayed shooting information is reduced and all buttons except flash are disabled. In Easy mode the PowerShot SX110 IS exemplifies the term ‘Point and Shoot'. |
 | 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 Add a personal touch to your image or movie with Canon’s My Colours. Choose from vivid blue for the sky, antique sepia for the portrait or classic black and white for the landscape. These creative options and many more – normally available only on a computer – can be applied directly from your camera, before or after the shot. |  |
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Box Contains
- 2 x Alkaline AA Batteries
- USB cable
- A/V cable
- Canon software CD (Zoom Browser ex)
- Strap
- English Manuals
- NO CARD IS INCLUDED
Customer Reviews
Excellent camera for its range
I have owned this camera for about a month, during which time I had enough opportunities to play around with it. My impressions are generally very good; although it is made of plastic it feels solid enough and weighty. It may feel slightly slippery sometimes, therefore it's advisable to use the supplied wrist wrap to avoid dropping it accidentally. The LCD screen is nice and bright (I also recommend buying a screen protector for it to avoid scratches), and the controls are easy to use and feel of quality. The flash is manual pop-up, which for me is an advantage, as you can just leave it down if you definetely don't need it (e.g. in museums where flash photography is not allowed). The size of the camera is bigger than the latest ultra-thin compacts, but much smaller that DSLRs and super-zooms. You can easily fit it in a coat pocket, although it's more difficult to fit in a jeans pocket if you have it with a case.
Coming to the foremost criterion on which cameras should be judged, i.e. picture quality, let me first mention that this is not a DSLR, and as all cameras with sensors much smaller than DSLRs (i.e. compact, bridge and super-zoom cameras), you are going to encounter some image noise at higher ISOs and poorer lighting conditions. In this camera however I did not find this to be too prohibitive and is not really a problem unless you go above ISO 400 or the lighting conditions are very poor (near dark without a flash). At ISO 80 or 100 outside you generally won't encounter any noise at all. I am generally happy with the quality of the pictures, including colours and white balance, although I would prefer some better handling of shadow areas. Also, there is some purple fringing around areas of high contract and some slight geometric distortion, this is nothing too serious. I would say apart from that the lens is quite good and consistent across various focal lengths, from wide to telephoto. I have uploaded some images on Amazon so you can get an idea of the quality of pictures that come out of the camera.
The biggest advantage of this camera and the reason I bought it is the possibilities it gives you for creative photography. You can have full manual control of exposure settings, i.e. adjust aperture opening, speed and ISO. You can also lock exposure and focus while playing around with other settings. Alternatively, if you are not comfortable taking control of the camera, you can put it in fully automatic or easy mode or select a special scene mode (e.g. portrait, beach, snow, landscape etc) and it will do everything for you; you just point and shoot. The pictures will come out excellent in most cases. In addition to this, one also has a quite large optical zoom of 10x at the full 9 Megapixels. This zoom can go progressively up to 40x if one drops the number of Megapixels (i.e. with interpolation), with no loss of quality of the picture. Combined with an additional 4x of digital zoom, you get a theoretical maximum of 160x, although by using digital zoom you would get deteriorated picture quality.
All in all I am happy with the quality of this camera, and I expect to learn a lot from it before I finally move onto a DSLR. Even then, I envisage keeping this camera for the cases when carrying around a bulky DSLR is not convenient. I would recommend buying this camera to use as an all-rounder, including point and shoot, but also when you want to become more creative and experiment with photography.
A pro camera AND a beginners camera in one box, very clever
The camera has a very wide range of settings which can be used by the experienced or semi pro photographer in situations where a DSLR is unrealistic due to bulk and weight etc.
It also has a range of semi and fully automatic settings which the beginner can use constantly and still get top class results. Remember, the camera features the IS (image stabilisation) system, and Canon's is widely acclaimed to be the best. (Helps to prevent blur in shots where a slower shutter speed, and/or telephoto is being used). This will buy you approx two stops when handholding the camera - in other words, if you are using 1/125th second to shoot, the system will produce an image equating to use of 1/500th (125 - 250 - 500, two stops).
I do a lot of macro and landscape work, often tripod mounted, so the Aperture priority mode is my usual favourite - I can control depth of field (what is in focus, and what is not, along a line drawn from the lens to the very background of the photograph - the smaller the aperture, the more that is in sharp focus, but sometimes you want to isolate a subject from it's background by using a large aperture, throwing everything out of focus, apart from the subject).
This camera is my first serious digital camera, and as a pre existing user of a Canon A1 35mm camera for many years, this one does everything my A1 could, and also has a wonderful ten times optical zoom, nine megapixels, and a large bright 3" LCD monitor, coupled with a very easy menu system (takes a little learning, like all such cameras).
I can't wait to see what the next new model features are - but this one produces great photographs, and is definitely as professional as you are - good job Canon, thank you!
Quality camera with simple options
Have been using the SX110 IS for a couple of weeks now. My first impression was that it was strange to use without a viewfinder. But the large screen on the back is easy to look at and has sufficient detail to accurately judge focus. It also makes it great for quickly showing pictures to people around you. The camera is particularly easy to switch between camera and viewing mode.
The zoom is very powerful and fast, with the image stabilizer helping to make sure the photos do not have too much camera shake in them. Start up is quick enough not to be irritating although it does sometimes seem a little slow to power up the flash. This is always a trade off for battery lifespan I guess.
The built-in flash does not automatically pop up when lighting conditions require it. Some have suggested this is a problem but I personally prefer this. Many shots with flash can become very washed out or contrasty on small digital cameras. A flick of the thumb pushes up the flash and it is ready to use. On other digicams, preventing the flash from firing has required a couple of little button presses and you have to watch on screen icons to make sure that the correct setting has been used. With the SX110, it's no problem at all. Flash up=ON, flash down=OFF.
Anyone familiar with Canon cameras will recognise the sensible controls. All the manual shooting options are present for the more serious photographer. And there is the fully automatic mode for the quick and simple picture takers too. It fits nicely in the hand, is big enough to not feel like a toy camera, but small enough to be discreet and to fit in a pocket. All in all, I'm very happy with the camera and it is exactly what I expected from Canon.
