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Canon is one of the market leaders when it comes to digital cameras. Therefore if you have a quite good budget and you do not know exactly which digital camera configuration you need, you may choose to tackle through what Canon offers you and one will most certainly have some choice available.

Anyhow, there are times, when knowing the exact budget will make the search easier for you. Therefore, if one has around two hundred dollars available, one can opt for the Canon Powershot a1100 IS digital camera.



This model that Canon offers us has been released on the market not so far long ago. It is a 12.1 megapixels camera featuring a 4* zoom and a 2.5 inch LCD screen. It does not have so many particular features, to make it stand up from the crowd but it therefore has a price that makes it worth purchasing. It has various color options, such as blue, pink, green and gray varieties. The colors are fairly mild and aren't over saturated so you won't end up getting a camera that looks like a toy. The sleek design of the body definitely looks good and the shape is ideal for slipping in and out of a pocket.



It comes with a viewfinder, even though nowadays, they are less and less common, the Canon technicians have decided it is a needing thing, a thing that one will be glad of having in a bright sunny day. The LCD offers a hundred percentages coverage and it occupies a big amount of the back side of the camera. The flash on the Canon Powershot a1100 IS digital camera is located in the upper right corner of the camera. It is small and will likely be in the way of fingers when you take a picture—especially if you have large paws. The flash can be set to auto, red-eye reduction, auto red-eye correction, flash on, flash off, FE lock, and slow synchro. Using the lens zoom is simple—you just rotate the ring around the shutter button. The lens extends about one inch from the actual camera when one uses the zoom.

All the jacks and ports are located on the right side of the camera, more exact to be - behind a rubberized port-covering. It uses two regular AA batteries and it comes shipped with batteries so the camera is ready to go right out of the box. There is as well the option of purchasing an additional power adapter that connects via the DC-input port. It comes with a 128 MB SD card, which is enough for one to use it various times, until one decides to purchase an extra if you don't already own one. It comes with a number of face detection features, which may appeal to casual users. The feature will automatically detect faces within the frame and adjust exposure and focus accordingly. Canon includes a face detection self-timer on the A1100 that will detect faces as the timer counts down.

It is a very light weighted camera, having just 155 grams without the batteries on. There are many lighter and slimmer cameras out there, but the canon powershot a1100 is digital camera is by no means large or unwieldy. It can be used in more than just one single mode, therefore one may choose from the auto mode, the movie mode, the drive or burst mode, the playback mode and as well the custom image preset.

It is an adaptable digital camera as it can handle most of the photographic levels one may desire. It comes with some advantages but as well some disadvantages. Some of the advantages one may see on it are sleek shape and design, buttons are well-positioned and easy to access, optical image stabilization and the optical viewfinder, while some of the disadvantages are right-side grip isn't perfect, it doesn't use rechargeable battery pack and the fact that the 4x zoom doesn't give you much magnification.