Canon Powershot S2 IS 5MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom
- Type of camera: Compact digital camera with built-in flash and 12x Optical / 4x
Digital / 48x Combined Zoom
- Image capture device: 5.0-megapixel, 1/2.5-inch type Charge Coupled Device
(CCD)
- Total pixels: Approximately 5.3 megapixels
- Effective pixels: Approximately 5.0 megapixels
- Lens focal length: 6.0-72.0mm, f2.7-3.5 (35mm film equivalent:
36-432mm)
- Digital zoom: 4x
- Focusing range: Normal: 1.6 feet/50 centimeters to infinity (wide), 3.0 feet/90
centimeters to infinity (telephoto); macro: 3.9 inches to 1.6 feet/10 to 50
centimeters; super macro: 0 to 3.9 inches/0 to 10 centimeters; TTL sutofocus
(continuous/single)
- Optical viewfinder: 0.33-inch low-temperature polycrystalline silicon TFT color
LCD
- LCD monitor: 1.8-inch low-temperature polycrystalline silicon TFT color LCD
with variable-angle function
- LCD pixels: Approximately 115,000 pixels
- LCD coverage: 100%
- Maximum aperture: f2.7 (wide) to f3.5 (telephoto)
- Shutter speed: 15 seconds to 1/3200 second; slow shutter speed of 15 to 1.3
seconds is only available in select modes
- Sensitivity: AUTO, ISO 50/100/200/400 equivalent
- Light metering method: Evaluative, center-weighted average, spot metering frame with
spot mode is center-fixed
- Exposure control method: Program AE, Shutter speed-priority AE, Aperture-priority AE,
ManualAE Lock is available
- Exposure compensation: +/-2 stops in 1/3-stop increments
- White balance control: Auto, pre-set (Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent,
Fluorescent H, Flash), custom flash
- Built-in flash: Operation modes: Auto, Red-Eye Reduction ON/OFF
- Flash range: Normal: 2.3 to 17.1 feet/0.7 to 5.2 meters (wide), 2.3 to 13.1
feet/0.7 to 4.0 meters (telephoto); macro: 1.0 feet to 2.3 feet/0.3 to 0.7
meters (when sensitivity is set to ISO 100 equivalent)
- Recycling time: Approximately 10 seconds or less (battery
voltage=7.4V)
- Flash exposure compensation: +/- 2 stops in 1/3-stop increments
- Shooting modes: Auto; creative zone: P, Av, Tv, M, C; image zone: Portrait,
Landscape, Night Scene, Special Scene (Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Indoor,
Night Snapshot), Stitch Assist, Movie, My Colors
- Photo effects: Off, Vivid, Neutral, Low Sharpening, Sepia, Black and White,
Custom
- Self-timer: Activates shutter after an approximately 2 second or 10 second
delay, or custom
- Wireless control: Not available
- Continuous shooting: High-speed: approximately 2.4 shots/seconds; normal:
approximately 1.5 shots/second (Large/Fine mode)
- Storage media: SD memory card
- File format: Design rule for camera file system, DPOF Version 1.1 (Digital
Print Order Format)
- Image recording format: Normal, Fine, SuperFine
- JPEG compression mode: Still image: Exif 2.2 (JPEG); movie: AVI (Image data: Motion
JPEG;Audio data: WAVE (Stereo))
- Number of recording pixels: Still image: 2,592 x 1,944 (Large), 2,048 x 1,536 (Medium 1),
1,600 x 1,200 (Medium 2), 640 x 480 (Small); movie: 640 x 480 (VGA Fine/VGA),
320 x 240 (QVGA)
- Playback modes file: Single, Index (9 thumbnail images), Slide show, Magnification
(approximately 2 to 10x), Jump, Movie
- Erase modes: Still image: single image, all images; movie: part of movie,
all of movie
- Computer interface: USB 2.0 Hi-Speed (mini-B PTP)
- Video out: NTSC, PAL
- Audio out: Stereo
- Other: SD memory card slot; direct connection to Canon CP Printers and
PIXMA photo printers via camera's USB cable (no computer required) or
PictBridge-compatible printers
- Power source: Four AA-size alkaline battery; four AA-size NiMH battery;
compact power adapter CA-PS700
- Shooting capacity: Still image: approximately 130 shots with AA-size alkaline
battery, approximately 550 shots with AA-size NiMH battery; movie:
approximately 210 minutes (AA-size Alkaline battery), approximately 300 minutes
(AA-size NiMH battery)
- Playback time: Approximately 800 minutes (AA-size Alkaline batteries),
approximately 900 minutes (AA-size NiMH batteries)
- Language display: 21 display languages: English, German, French, Dutch, Danish,
Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, simplified/traditional Chinese,
Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Polish, Czech, Hungarian,
Turkish
- Operating temperature: 32 to 104 degrees F/0 to 40 degrees C
- Operating humidity: 10 to 90%
- Dimensions (W x H x D): 4.45 x 3.07 x 2.97 inches/113.0 x 78.0 x 75.5mm (excluding
protrusions)
- Weight: Approximately 14.3 ounces/405 grams (camera body
only)
- What's in the box: PowerShot S2 IS body, neck strap NS-DC3, AA-size Alkaline batteries (x4), stereo video cable STV-250N, interface cable IFC-400PCU, SD memory card SDC-16MB, digital camera solution CD-ROM, lens cap