For the 1st time within a digital compact, an EOS style Multi Control Dial is travelling to allow quick setting of menu and shooting functions, and even rapid scroll through images during playback. Advanced features include real time histogram display, FlexiZone AF/AE by using a freely movable focus point and manual focus override, 21 shooting modes, XGA quality films approximately 1 GB wide, plus a new and improved software that has a newly designed and positioned mode dial.

Quality build, quality optics
The sleek looking S80 has been redesigned to give it a solid, excellent build along with a more ergonomic, compact body this really is over 8% less space consuming than its predecessor despite the camera's improved performance. Its 28 100mm f2.8 5.3 (3.6x) optical zoom lens features Canon's advanced UA (Ultra High Refractive Index Aspherical) lens technology, that permits for true wide angle capability without increasing camera size. The focal length range expands to approximately 22.4 to 200 millimeters along with the new optional wide and tele converter lenses.

The power of 8.0 megapixels plus DIGIC II
With a sensor which includes a massive 8.0 megapixels, you produces images for photo quality 16 x 22 inch prints, and give photographers more freedom to crop images.

Canon's advanced image processor, DIGIC II, continues to be incorporated to extend the camera's speed and responsiveness, while also improving image quality. Auto focus speeds are now as much as 20% faster, and focusing performance in low light has improved by around 1 stop, offering better control in dim conditions. DIGIC II drives a single.8 fps continuous shooting speed, and supports 9 point AiAF for fast, accurate focusing no matter if subjects are not centerd. FlexiZone AF/AE allows free scrolling anywhere during the frame's auto focus area to choose the specified subject, which is exposure is weighted accordingly. Manual focus selection is furthermore possible.

Hi Speed USB 2.0 compatibility offers faster communication with computers, accelerating file transfers.

High level control and easy to use
The camera's smaller size hasn't compromised user friendly. A new large 2.5 inch LCD can be adjusted one of 15 brightness levels and allows a Quick bright function to facilitate shooting in sunny conditions. A real time histogram, which appears relating to the LCD monitor, is incorporated to allow for a computer owner to evaluate exposure easily when composing. The selectable grid line display helps with composition and levelling horizons.

With a newly designed cp, the S80 offers faster and others intuitive operation. The Multi Control Dial allows quick setting of menu and shooting functions, as well as rapid scroll through images during playback. Conveniently, the mode dial becomes positioned thus it will be better viewed when composing shots. The camera's Shortcut function increases flexibility by getting the Print/Share button to be assigned to a single of an large selection of still image or movie shooting setting functions.

For enhanced image review, the jump to folder button now allows jumping on the first image of specified folders. Folders can be defined to be created automatically as specified because of the user, as an illustration every week, and today has a capacity as high as 2000 images per folder.

Modes, My Colors...and movies
The S80 incorporates earnings of 21 shooting modes: beyond the full Manual mode along with other creative zone modes that photographers would expect while on an S Series camera, nine new special scene modes happen to have been incorporated. Helping the user to effectively handle numerous situations, these scene modes include Snow, Portrait, Underwater and Digital Macro, plus others. Custom mode allows users allocate preferred shooting settings.

My Colors located over the mode dial allows the development of creativity in portrait digital photography. Effects, that include Color Swap or Custom Colors, allowing users to purchase their preferred color balance for almost any given shot, can be executed in camera and viewed around the LCD while shooting stills and movies. These effects could previously only be achieved using PC software after shooting.

Extended movie shooting functions feature inside S80, including an initial to the market: a high resolution (1024 x 768, 15 fps) XGA movie mode, authorized by DIGIC II's processing speed. Movies this particular mode are generally as many as 1GB dimensions so are just the thing for viewing full screen at a PC or TV. Superior quality VGA (30/15 frames per second) movies with sound or QVGA movies (30/15 frames per second) also are possible, rrncluding a compact mode allows short clip capture at 160 x 120 for straightforward e mailing.

Advanced printing
When used by in conjunction with Canon's new Compact Photo Printer Selphy CP710 and Ink and Paper Set (KP 108IP), prints are usually produced very inexpensively. Printing from a Selphy CP Series Printer also allows the user to print handy ID Photo Prints and Movie Prints.

When attached to the latest collection of PictBridge compatible PIXMA printers, users takes benefit of image enhancement features like Noise Reduction, Vivid Photo, Face Brightener and Captured Info print, which prints shooting data similar to shutter speed, aperture and shooting mode around the photo border.

Printing images and not connection to your personal computer is kept simple using the Print/Share button, that also acts for being an easy upload button for Windows XP and Mac OS X.

Software
The S80 comes bundled using a comprehensive software suite, including Canon's browsing and image management software ZoomBrowser EX 5.5 (Windows) and ImageBrowser 5.5 (Mac), easy printing software PhotoRecord 2.2, and PhotoStitch 3.1 for creating stunning panoramas. You also get the photo manipulation software, ArcSoft PhotoStudio.

Purchasers with the cameras meet the criteria for membership of Canon iMAGE Gateway, that provides 100 MB of online space for uploading and sharing images.

Supported operating systems are Windows 98 (SE), Me, 2000 (SP4), XP (SP1/2) and Mac OS X v10.2 v10.3. The cameras support PTP for driverless transfer to supported Or windows 7 or Mac OS X systems.

What's within the box
PowerShot S80 body, Lithium battery pack NB 2LH, charger CB 2LW, 32 MB SD memory card SDC 32M, wrist strap WS 300, Camcorder Solution CD ROM, USB interface cable IFC 400PCU, audio video cable AVC DC300