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Canon Powershot A650 IS 12.1 Mega Pixel Camera with 6x Optical Zoom

If you’re looking for a 12 MP pocket camera, this Canon Powershot A650 IS could be an option. Equipped with a 12.1 mega pixels resolution CCD, 2-1/2″ swiveling, flip-out LCD screen, real-image optical zoom viewfinder, 6X optical zoom (4X digital/24X total zoom), optical image stabilizer feature, and a top JPEG resolution: 4000 X 3000 capability, Canon Powershot A650 IS camera would turn your everyday shots a boost.

Canon Powershot A650 IS utilize Canon DIGIC III Image Processor, this feature will increase your image quality and battery life. Also, DIGIC III Image Processor enabling Canon’s Face Detection and Red Eye Correction, giving your photo shots a sense of realistic colors. To use these awesome features, all you need to do is pressing the Shutter Button halfway and give this camera some time to pinpoint the faces in the scene and pick the ideal focus point.

If you were new to cameras, the Optical Image Stabilizer Technology embedded in this camera would be a great help. This feature will corrects camera shakes (common at focal lengths and low light) to prevent blurry shots. Optical Image Stabilizer was powered with gyroscopic sensors to detect motion and generate a corrective signal, effectively reducing camera shake. Its 6X Optical zoom will provide you with better zoom shots

For viewing and playback needs, a 2.5-Inch Vari-Angle LCD Screen will give you crisp and clear picture, also its wide viewing angle will make your shooting, playbacks and camera functions settings activity more convenient. The vari-angle design enables you swivel the LCD screen 180 degrees to the front of the camera and display either a mirror image or a non-reversed image, it gives you more flexibility to shoot from just about any position.

You could use manual control to explore your photography skills, but for one who pursues practicality Canon Powershot A650 IS provides you with 21 Shooting modes, including 9 Special Scene Modes.

Camera’s Technical Details

• Color: Silver
• Type: 1/1.7-inch Charge Coupled Device (CCD)
• Total pixels: Approximately 12.4 megapixels
• Effective pixels: Approximately 12.1 megapixels
• Focal length: 7.4 to 44.4mm (35mm film equivalent: 35 to 210mm)
• Aperture: f/2.8 to f/4.8
• Optical zoom: 6x
• Digital zoom: 4x (24x combined zoom)
• Focusing range: Normal: 1.6 feet to infinity; macro: 0.39 inches to 1.6 feet (wide)
• Autofocus system: TTL
• Viewfinder: Real-image optical zoom viewfinder
• Display: 2.5-inch low-temperature polycrystalline silicon TFT color vari-angle LCD with wide viewing angle
• LCD pixels: Approximately 173,000
• LCD coverage: 100 percent
• Shutter speed: 15 to 1/2,000 of a second (settable in Tv and M)
• ISO sensitivity: Auto, high ISO auto, ISO 80/100/200/400/800/1,600 equivalent (standard output sensitivity, recommended exposure index)
• Light metering method: Evaluative, center-weighted average, spot
• Exposure control method: Program AE, shutter-speed-priority AE, aperture-priority AE, manual, AE lock, safety shift, auto ISO shift
• Exposure compensation: +/-2 stops in 1/3-stop increments
• White balance control: Auto, preset (daylight, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent, fluorescent H), custom
• Built-in flash: Auto, auto with red-eye reduction, flash on, flash on with red-eye reduction, flash off, FE lock, slow synchro, second-curtain synchro
• Flash range: Normal: 1.6 to 11 feet (wide), 1.6 to 6.6 feet (tele), when sensitivity is set to ISO auto
• Recycling time: 10 seconds or less
• Flash exposure compensation: +/- 2 stops in 1/3-stop increments
• Shooting modes: Auto, P, Av, Tv, M, C, portrait, landscape, special scene (foliage, snow, beach, fireworks, night scene, aquarium, underwater, indoor, ISO 3200), kids and pets, night snapshot, stitch assist, movie
• Photo effects: My colors (vivid, neutral, sepia, black and white, custom)
• Self-timer: Activates shutter after approximately 2- to 10-second delay, custom
• Wireless control: N/A
• Continuous shooting : Roughly 1.2 fps
• Storage media: SD memory card, SDHC memory card, MultiMediaCard, MMC Plus card, HC MMC Plus card
• File format: Design rule for camera file system, DPOF v. 1.1
• JPEG compression mode: Still image: Exif 2.2 (JPEG); movie: AVI (image: motion JPEG, audio: WAV)
• Number of recording pixels: Still image: 640 x 480 (small), 1,600 x 1,200 (medium 3), 2,592 x 1,944 (medium 2), 3,264 x 2,448 (medium 1), 4,000 x 3,000 (large), 4,000 x 2,248 (widescreen); movie: 640 x 480 (30 fps/30 fps LP), 320 x 240 (30 fps) available up to 4 GB or 1 hour per clip, 160 x 120 (3 minutes at 15 fps)
• Playback modes: Still image: single, magnification (2x to 10x), jump, auto rotate, rotate, resume, histogram, index (9 thumbnails), sound memos, red-eye correction, RAW playback, resize, image inspection tool; movie: normal, special playback
• Erase modes: Still image: single image, all images; movie: part of movie, all of movie
• Computer interface: USB 2.0 high speed (mini-B jack)
• Video out: NTSC/PAL
• Audio out: Monaural
• Other: Memory card slot; direct connection to Canon CP and SELPHY compact photo printers, PIXMA photo printers and PictBridge-compatible printers via camera’s USB 2.0 high-speed cable
• Power source: 4 AA-size alkaline batteries, 4 rechargeable AA-size NiMH batteries, AC adapter
• Shooting capacity: Still image: approximately 300 shots (AA alkaline batteries); approximately 500 shots (NiMH batteries)
• Playback time: Approximately 1,080 minutes (AA); approximately 1,140 minutes (NiMH)
• Item width: 4.41 inches
• Item height: 2.67 inches
• Item depth: 2.21 inches
• Item weight: 10.58 ounces
• Warranty: 1 year parts and labor
• In the box: PowerShot A650 IS, 4 AA-size alkaline batteries, SD memory card, wrist strap, Digital Camera Solution CD-ROM, USB cable, AV cable, user’s manual

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