Canon PowerShot A420 Digital Camera

Canon PowerShot A420 Point & Shoot Digital Camera With 4X MP & 3.2x Optical Zoom

The Canon A420 camera is designed to make it simple for anyone to take great photos. Its compact, lightweight body is ergonomically shaped to fit comfortably in the hand, while intuitively positioned buttons provide fingertip access to key camera controls. The bright 1.8" LCD screen features a selectable Grid Line Display to help with shot composition and a Night Display mode for easy visibility after dark. The 5-point AiAF focuses quickly and accurately on subjects even when off-centre, to ensure consistently sharp images. An AF-assist Beam helps with focusing in low light conditions. The PowerShot A420 also features a 1cm Super Macro mode for close-up focusing on tiny subjects. Canon Powershot A-series digital cameras "Since the launch of the PowerShot A5 in 1998, the A-series has helped millions of European consumers switch to digital," explains Mogens Jensen, Head of Canon Consumer Imaging Europe. "With this new addition to the Powershot range, Canon is making high quality digital photography more accessible than ever before." Canon Powershot A420 camera - Shooting modes The 15 shooting modes on the PowerShot A420 help to deliver excellent results in almost any situation. Preset Special Scene modes assist with picture taking in tricky lighting conditions, including Indoor, Beach and Snow. For creative experimentation, Color Accent and Color Swap modes enable dramatic colour effects to be applied to images and movies direct from the camera. Users can keep one colour and change the rest to black and white with Color Accent, or exchange one colour for another with Color Swap. The A420 camera also feature My Colors photo effects for additional in-camera colour customisation. Canon Powershot A420 camera - Widescreen Furthermore a dedicated Movie mode enables recording of high quality VGA movies of up to 3 minutes in length. With widescreen televisions becoming increasingly popular across Europe.