Canon

Featuring a 3.2 megapixel CCD, the camera provides high-quality images for making prints up to 8.5 x 11-inches.Crafted to look like other members of Canon's PowerShot family, the PowerShot SD100 is ultra-compact in size and features a new white-platinum finish crafted in stainless steel.

The PowerShot SD100 digital camera represents the ultimate in portability, durability and elegance.

The size of the PowerShot SD100 digital camera was made possible through the process of miniaturization, beginning with a new optical zoom lens design so small it can literally hide under a U.S.

dime, to the extremely small built-in flash unit, a new condensed battery and use of the SD media format.

Canon's new PowerShot SD100 Digital ELPH camera features an incredibly compact retractable 2X optical zoom lens.

When retracted, the f2.8 - f3.9 lens measures a mere 17.9mm in length, almost the same as the diameter of a U.S.

dime and approximately 20% shorter than 2X zoom lenses used in previous Digital ELPH cameras.

As pixel counts go up and lens sizes come down, lens quality becomes the crucial element to image quality.

Canon's expertise in advanced optical and glass-molding technologies allows aspherical lenses to be incorporated in the zoom, delivering small size and image sharpness not possible with conventional lenses.

A 3.2X digital zoom is combined with the 2X lens to achieve a powerful maximum 6.4X combined zoom.

SD-compatible Digital ELPH - PowerShot SD100 is the very first Digital ELPH to offer compatibility with SD technology.

You'll experience expanded capacity and high-speed writing from a memory card that's the size of a postage stamp.

3.2 Megapixel CCD - High Resolution Delivers Rich, Sharp Images.

With 3.2 megapixels of imaging power, your pictures will impress you and everyone else with their clarity, depth and brilliant color.

Powerful Zoom - 2x Optical/ 3.2x Digital/ 6.4x Combined Zoom.

The genuine Canon optical zoom lens and seamlessly integrated digital zoom give you the power to close in on the shot you want every time.

The High Zoom Capacity Gets the Shot! DIGIC & iSAPS - Advanced Imaging Technology Improves Every Photo with DIGIC and iSAPS TechnologyDIGIC - Canon's exclusive technology takes the camera's 3.2 megapixel CCD to new heights.

DIGIC delivers speedier processing, for greater agility, more accurate autofocus and highly natural image quality.

The DIGIC technology combines the jobs of image processing and camera function control into one chip.

Because it was specifically designed for use in digital cameras, it is also capable of handling JPEG compression/expansion; memory card control; LCD/Video control and processing; gain control (control of CCD signal amplification); Auto Exposure; Auto Focus; Auto White Balance control and most other functions of the camera.

The result is a product that offers faster and more powerful auto focus than ever before, faster image processing, longer battery life, and the ability to record three-minute movie clips with sound.

iSAPS - iSAPS technology is an entirely new scene-recognition technology developed for digital cameras by Canon.

Using an internal database of thousands of different photos, iSAPS works with the fast DIGIC Imaging Processor to improve focus speed and accuracy, as well as exposure and white balance.

Wide Area 9-point AiAF - Compose your shot your way with Wide Area 9-point AiAF.

The camera's Wide Area 9-point AiAF system gives you the freedom to place your subject anywhere in the frame, confident that it will be accurately, automatically focused every time.

Movie & Photo Effect - Get Creative with your Digital Cameras Movie Mode and Photo Effects.

Record movie clips up to 3 minutes long, then play them back right away.

Clips up to 30 seconds long can be recorded with spectacular 640 x 480 VGA quality.

Photo Effects including Vivid, Neutral, Low Sharpening, Sepia and Black & White give you easy, high-impact creative control over your photography.

Intelligent Orientation - This Camera Knows Which way is up.