High Image Quality
• 8.0 megapixel CCD with maximum resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels, for large impressive high-resolution prints.
• Powered by Canon’s exclusive DIGIC III Imaging Processor for superior image quality. It boasts significant improvements in delivering images with razor sharp clarity and lifelike color reproduction in accelerated processing speed.

User-Friendly Design
• 2.5” vari-angle color LCD monitor with wide viewing angle for easy composition and viewing of images at difficult angles.

Multiple Face Detection Technology
• Incorporates the Face Detection AF, Face Detection AE and Face Detection FE, which work hand-in-hand to capture stunning photos of subjects’ faces with sharpness and right exposure easily.
- Face Detection AF: Detects as many as 9 subjects’ faces in a picture. If no faces are detected the AF system automatically switched to the conventional 9-point AiAF setting.
- Face Detection AE: Focus and exposure are controlled and set correctly for capturing the human face so that the subject’s best expression is not missed.
- Face Detection FE: Flash brightness and exposure automatically adjusted to ideal levels
• Enables Red eye correction during playback
• Keep subject in focus by tracking the faces even during movie recording.

Superb Optical Performance
• Retractable 12x optical zoom, with up to 48x combined zoom, empowers you to zoom into action over a wide shooting range.
• The lens is capable of achieving high imaging quality over the entire zoom range, hence ensuring the camera’s optimum performance under a variety of shooting conditions – especially good for sports photography.

Optical Image Stabilizer
• The optical image stabilizer helps to eliminate camera shake and enables shooting of sharp images even when shooting subjects that are moving or 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.