Canon PowerShot A580 8MP Digital Camera - (2463B001) - (013803089349)

Even beginners can create phenomenal images with the amazing PowerShot A580. This impressive 8.0-megapixel digital camera has a 4x optical zoom and bright 2.5-inch LCD that make shooting simple and convenient. To give you superior quality images without having to worry about the details, there's a full range of Canon's highly-advanced features at your service - including a powerful DIGIC III Image Processor, enhanced Face Detection technology, a host of shooting modes including a new Easy Mode and more.

Features:

More Features for Less
Picture the possibilities of this impressive digital camera. The 8.0-megapixel design lets you create images of breath-taking detail and radiant color that you can print, enlarge, crop or email to friends and family. The Canon 4x optical zoom gives you the power you need to get in close and capture special moments—whether they’re happening across the room or across the schoolyard.

The camera’s 2.5-inch LCD screen gives you the big picture, whether you’re shooting, reviewing or showing off your images. This high-resolution screen offers a crisp, clear and bright picture. It also features Night Display for easy viewing in low light.

No Worries, Just Great Pictures
Even if you've never picked up a camera before, with Canon's new Easy Mode you can take inspiring, dramatic pictures that will impress everyone. Once you choose Easy Mode, the PowerShot A580 handles all the details automatically. It automatically sets every camera control including the flash to reduce blur and improve image quality. So you get pictures that are bright, clear and natural just by pushing a button. Best of all, you can relax and concentrate on what really counts-your subject.

Shooting Modes
-Auto: The camera chooses all the settings so you can concentrate on your subject.
-Easy: Keep the image quality as high as possible for fail-proof images.
-Camera M: The same ease of full automatic exposure control, but with full access to all menu settings, exposure compensation, and white balance.
-Portrait: The camera sets a large aperture, focusing the subject and artistically blurring the background to make your subject "pop."
-Landscape: For front to back sharpness, the camera sets a small aperture.
-Indoor: Reduce blur and improve color accuracy when shooting handheld indoors.
-Kids & Pets: Reduced focusing time freezes fast-moving subjects, so you won't miss those special shots.
-Night Snapshot: Get natural-looking pictures with brighter backgrounds and subjects lit by flash.
-Movie: Shoot in VGA (640 x 480 at 20 fps/20 fps LP), QVGA (320 x 240 at 30 fps) for up to 1 hour or 4GB), or QQVGA (160 x 120 at 15 fps) for up to 3 minutes.
-Foliage: Capture brilliant shots of autumn foliage, greenery and blossoms.
-Snow: Shoot clear snow scenes without darkened subjects or an unnatural bluish tint.
-Beach: Get clear shots of people at a sunny beach without darkened faces.
-Sunset: Capture stunning sunsets with all the dazzle and impact.
-Fireworks: Grab brilliant images of skyrocketing fireworks.
-Night Scene: For impressive sunset or nightlife shots, the camera properly exposes the background and uses slow-sync flash for the subject.
-Aquarium: Achieve proper flash-free exposure and natural hues at indoor aquariums.

Enhanced Canon Face Detection Technology
Canon's powerful Face Detection Technology delivers even better results with the new A580. The Face Detection Technology continues to recognize faces in a scene, and concentrate exposure (daylight or flash) and focus upon them. But the A580 adds more: Face Detection WB means the camera concentrates upon faces when calculating white balance for the best possible skin tones. Face Select and Track lets the A580 user highlight one face among several in a scene, and the camera concentrates on that person, even as they move around the scene. Face Detection Technology is a powerful contributing factor in Canon's new Motion Detection Technology.

Red-eye Correction provides three options for removing red-eye from subjects in flash pictures.
1) The new Red-eye Correction during shooting actually identifies and corrects red-eye in human subjects as pictures are taken.
2) The A580 can be set to automatically detect and correct red-eye during image playback.
3) The user can manually locate any red eyes in a scene during image playback on the LCD screen, and command the camera to remove them.

The PowerShot A580 features ISO 1600 and High ISO Auto settings that reduce the effects of camera shake and sharpen subjects in low-light situations, giving you greater shooting flexibility.

DIGIC III Image Processor
With DIGIC III, your images boast superior quality, the camera operates at top efficiency and battery life is enhanced. What's more, DIGIC III enables Canon's Face Detection Technology and Red-eye Correction to give you better, more true-to-life people shots. Simply press the Shutter Button halfway down, and the camera automatically pinpoints the faces in the scene and chooses the ideal focus point. The camera controls exposure settings and flash to keep every face looking bright and natural. Red-eye Correction can be handled in-camera, in two ways. The entirely new Red-eye Correction during shooting uses the Face Detection Technology to recognize and remove red-eye from flash images as they're taken, before the file is written to the memory card. It's also possible to correct red-eye during image playback, using simple settings in the A580's menu.

iSAPS Technology is an entirely original scene-recognition technology developed for digital cameras by Canon. Using an internal database of thousands of different photos, iSAPS works with the fast DIGIC III Image Processor to improve focus speed and accuracy, as well as exposure and white balance.

Motion Detection Technology
Life doesn't stand still for picture-taking. That's why Canon included its advanced Motion Detection Technology in the PowerShot A580. This sophisticated feature works in the background to instantly evaluate how fast your subject is moving. Then it automatically selects and sets the optimal exposure and ISO settings to keep everything looking sharp and clear. So whether you're shooting a bride walking down the aisle, a ballet recital or even a child's soccer game, you can relax and shoot with confidence knowing you've got the picture you intended.

The Complete Print Solution
The PowerShot A580's Print/Share button makes direct printing easier than ever. Simply connect the A580 to a Canon PIXMA Photo Printer or SELPHY Compact Photo Printer or any PictBridge compatible photo printer, press the lighted Print/Share button and print! Also use the Print/Share button to transfer images to a computer (Windows® and Macintosh®).

Specifications:

Image Capture Device

-Type: 8.0 Megapixel, 1/2.5-inch type Charge Coupled Device (CCD)
-Total Pixels: Approx. 8.3 Megapixels
-Effective Pixels: Approx. 8.0 Megapixels

Lens

-Focal Length: 5.8-23.2mm f/2.6-5.5 (35mm film equivalent: 35-140mm)
-Digital Zoom: 4x
-Autofocus System: TTL Autofocus

Viewfinder & Monitor

-Viewfinder: Real image optical zoom viewfinder
-LCD Monitor: 2.5-inch amorphous silicon TFT color LCD
-LCD Pixels: Approx. 115,000 pixels
-LCD Coverage: 100%

Aperture and Shutter

-Maximum Aperture: f/2.6 (W) - f/5.5 (T)
-Shutter Speed: 1/60-1/2000 sec., 15-1/2000 sec.

Flash

-Built-in Flash: Auto, Red-eye Reduction, Auto Red-eye Correction, Flash On, Flash Off; FE lock, Slow Synchro
-Recycling Time: 10 sec. or less (battery voltage=3.0V)
-Flash Range: 12 in.-11 ft./30cm-3.5m (W), 12 in.-7.2 ft./30cm-2.2m (T) (when sensitivity is set to ISO Auto)

Shooting Specifications

-Self-Timer: Activates shutter after an approx. 2-sec./10-sec. delay, Custom
-Wireless Control: Not available
-Continuous Shooting: Approx. 1.4 fps (Large/Fine)

Image Storage

-Storage Media: SD/SDHC Memory Card, MultiMediaCard, MMC Plus Card, HC MMC Plus Card
-File Format: Design rule for camera file system, DPOF Version 1.1
-Image Compression: Normal, Fine, SuperFine

Interfaces

-Computer Interface: USB 2.0 Hi-Speed (mini-B jack)
-Video Out: NTSC/PAL
-Audio Out: Monaural

What's in the Box:

-PowerShot A580 Body
-AA-size Alkaline Battery (x2)
-MMC Plus Card MMC-32MH
-Wrist Strap WS-800
-Digital Camera Solution CD-ROM
-USB Interface Cable IFC-400PCU
-AV Cable AVC-DC300

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