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CANON POWERSHOT S95

Canon, the 10 megapixel PowerShot S95 is a compact digital camera with several performance and convenience features. In a similar class with the PowerShot S95, this camera packs a 28 millimeter wide-angle lens with 3.8x zoom that’s also capable of recording 720p HD video, but that’s far from everything you’ll find in the PowerShot S95.

DESIGN AND FEATURES

The Canon PowerShot S95 comes in a basic black casing with little style. Up front, all that is visible is its 28 millimeter lens, but press a single button up top and this camera’s pop-up flash appears. You’ll also notice that the camera’s lens is surrounded by a grooved ring. Canon calls this the control ring, and rotating it while pressing the corresponding button can adjust focus, exposure, ISO, step zoom and white balance manually. As for the back, things are fairly standard with a 3-inch LCD display and your usual image and menu controls.

Inside, however, there are several features to mention including the HS System, which combines the camera’s 10 megapixel CCD optical sensor and DIGIC 4 Image Processor to make for a camera that’s “dramatically more sensitive than cameras with identical megapixel counts,” according to Canon. This is said to make for images with minimal noise and reduced blur. The PowerShot S95 also features Canon’s Smart AUTO mode to automatically shoot with the best image settings available based on what’s inside the frame.

Canon claims its 3.8x zoom lens can shoot both wide-angle and telephoto with minimized camera shake that will “reveal almost every detail.” The company’s Hybrid IS function is said to bolster the lens with both an angular sensor and an accelerometer. This combination enables the PowerShot S95 to suppress blur from camera shake as well as blur from moving subjects even when zoomed. For Canon says that its PowerShot S95 “is the camera you’ll want to take everywhere.”