Canon SX40 HS Point & Shoot Camera  (Black)

For photographers who want to hone their talents before moving on to expensive gear, Canon presents the PowerShot SX40 HS. This digital camera belongs to the PowerShot HS series of point and shoot cameras. The SX40 HS is a performance driven camera with manual controls, which let you take images with dramatic effects. This Canon camera has a focal length of 4.3 - 150.5 mm with a 35 mm equivalent focal length of 24 - 840 mm.

This performance driven Canon digital camera has a CMOS sensor which lets you take images at 12.1 megapixel resolution. Taking you closer to your subjects, the PowerShot SX40 HS boasts of 35x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom.

The feature packed PowerShot camera weighs 600 g and sports an elegant design reminiscent of professional cameras. The back panel features the control buttons on a rotary jog dial, along with one-touch buttons for video recording, image preview, display and menu. A thumb pad next to the video recording button makes holding this camera comfortable to hold while capturing memories.

You can also experiment with video shooting with this Canon digital camera. The Canon PowerShot SX40 HS takes videos in Full HD at 1920 x 1080 dot pixel resolution. The DIGIC 5 image processor has been used for the first time in this Canon PowerShot digital camera, which delivers advanced shooting options and boosts the performance of the camera immeasurably.

With this PowerShot digital camera, you can shoot images in 16:9, 3:2, 4:3 and 1:1 aspect ratios, which give you a choice in display during playback. The 2.7 inch vari-angle type TFT LCD screen has a resolution of 230,000 dot pixels and can be swiveled on its axis for easy viewing and creative composition of images. You can further compose precise images with the electronic viewfinder, which comes with 5 levels of brightness to accommodate different weathers and light situations.

Battery and Storage

Your photographs are saved on SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards. The high speed USB port can be used to transfer images from the camera to a PC or computer so that you always have space for more photographs. The HDMI port lets you connect the Canon PowerShot camera to an HDTV to view images on a large screen. The rechargeable Lithium Ion battery lets you take 400 shots on a single charge when you use the viewfinder to compose images. If the LCD monitor is used to compose photographs, the battery lets you take 380 shots on a single charge.

Performance

The iris type aperture of this Canon digital camera has a range of f/2.7 - 5.8, which controls the amount of light falling on the image sensor. The Auto focus has a range of 1400 mm onwards (Tele) which lets you focus on almost any subject you want with comfort. The built-in pop-up flash has a functioning range of 500 - 7000 mm (Wide) and 1400 - 3000 mm (Tele), brightening up indoor parties and late night events for sharper images.

ISO is a measure of the light sensitivity of a camera. The Canon PowerShot SX40 HS has a light sensitivity in the range of ISO 100 - 3200, which let you experiment with different kinds of lighting. The PowerShot SX40 HS has a shutter speed range of 15 - 1/3200 second, which lets you take artistic images of moving subjects.

Features

The Canon PowerShot SX40 HS has 32 shooting modes like Handheld Night Scene, Beach, Foliage and more. In Handheld Night Scene mode, you can shoot images in the dark without a tripod, and the camera will capture a high-speed sequence of shots to combine them and produce an image with optimum exposure. The lens shift image stabilizer of the Canon SX40 HS analyzes the motion of the camera and the subject and picks the best shot type to achieve a blur-free image.

The Smile and Wink Self-timer features are innovative modes that you can use to automatically release the shutter when the camera identifies a smiling or winking face in the frame. This ensures that you always have an image of those adorable moments. The Continuous Shooting feature can be used in 2 modes. In Auto mode, you can take images at 2.4 shots per second with a single shutter release; in High-Speed Burst HQ mode, this shooting speed increases to 10.3 shots per second, letting you record every moment of a dance performance or golf shot for posterity.