Elegant and Sturdy
• Supple curves for beauty and comfort.
• Luminous dark metallic finish
• Solid grip offers firm support for the powerful zoom lens.
• 2.0" vari-angle LCD

Superb Optical Performance
• Retractable 12x optical zoom; with up to 48x combined zoom for a wide shooting range.
• Assured of superior picture quality across the entire zoom range, ensuring the camera’s optimum performance under a variety of shooting conditions – especially good for sports photography.
• The camera is built with an UD (Ultra Low Dispersion) lens element, which reduces chromatic aberrations even in high zoom settings.
• Super Macro shooting capability allows extreme close-up shooting of up to 0 cm!

Optical Image Stabilizer & USM
• The optical image stabilizer of PowerShot S3 IS eliminates camera shake.
Enables shooting of sharp images
- when shooting subjects that are moving
- when shooting from a moving vehicle.
• There are 4 control settings under the Image Stabilizer (IS) function:
1. Off - IS mode is not operational
2. Continuous - Operates in previewing or shooting mode. It eliminates the problem of camera shake even when shooting a distant subject at high zoom settings as image check can be done before pressing the shutter button.
3. Shoot only - Operates when shutter button is fully depressed. Prevents ‘seasickness effect’ caused by unnatural movement of the image on the monitor.
4. Panning - Operates only when camera movement in the up/down direction is detected. Very useful for shooting action packed scenes.
• The USM (Ultrasonic Motor) enables fast and silent zooming when shooting both stills and videos.

Superb Image Quality
• 6.0 megapixel CCD for high quality prints of up to A3 size
• Powered by DIGIC II Imaging Processor for razor sharp image quality, accelerated processing and life-like color reproduction
• NEW high ISO 800 reduces camera shake and blurring of fast-moving subjects even in low-light condition.
• NEW high ISO Auto provides the instant convenient option to capture higher quality pictures with minimum noise under low light condition.

Amazing Beautiful Stills
• New Photo in Movie function enables shooting of high-resolution stills during movie recording, hence saving the hassle of switching modes for different operations.
• Enjoy smooth continuous shooting at the same speed until the SD memory card is full (depends on the type of SD card, number of recording pixels and compression rate setting).

Stereo Movie Recording Capability
• With 2 microphones incorporated in the camera body, it produces movies with excellent stereo sound quality.
• Enjoy high VGA quality movies recorded at 30 fps, with storage of up to 1GB or 60 minutes.
• Enables movie recording anytime even during still image mode. The dedicated movie button allows easy access to movie recording anytime (provided there is at least 1 sec worth of free space in SD card).
• Inbuilt sound recorder allows up to 16-bit, 44.1 kHz stereo sound recording, with a maximum recording time of up to 2 hours per session. Recorded videos can be enjoyed with compatible playback equipments.
• 5 Movie Modes: Compact /Standard / Fast Frame Rate /Color Accent /Color Swap
• Optical /digital zooming and auto/manual focusing available during movie recording.
• Approx. 4x digital zooming while shooting of movies (only in Standard mode).
• 5 selectable speed levels settings for slow motion movie playback offer more flexibility for movie previewing.

NEW 16:9 Widescreen Still Shooting
• Shoot, view and print still images in 16:9 widescreen format.
• Choose to view 16:9 widescreen format in LCD monitor and even on a conventional 4:3 TV.
• Print 16:9 widescreen format when connected to Canon CP printers* using Canon’s wide size papers.
*Under ‘ Pictbridge mode’ connection for CP710/510 printers. When connected to other CP printers, connectivity to computer with software is needed.

Point & Shoot Simplicity
• 1-point AF (flexi-zone/ fixed to center) ensures the subject is sharply focused even if it is not in the center.
• 20 shooting modes including 8 special scene modes.
• The Special Scene modes are pre programmed camera settings for specific shooting conditions: Fireworks, Snow, Beach, Indoor, Foliage, Night Snapshot, Color Accent, Color Swap.
- Color Swap: Specify a color to replace a selected color. Only one target color can be captured (with no flash)
- Color Accent: Specify a color to remain and turn all other colors into monochrome (with no flash)
• Vertical/ Horizontal Gridline Display for easy photo composition and framing.
• Smooth Continuous Shooting capability to shoot continuously at the same speed until the memory card is full.
(Depends on the type of memory card/no of recording pixels/compression rate settings)
• Self-timer function with Custom Timer, which can set a delay between 0-10secs, 15s, 20s and 30s and number of shots from 1-10.

NEW Selectable Lens Retraction Timing
• Choose to retract the camera lens at 1 min or even at 0 sec.
• Protect the lens from being scratched when not in shooting mode.