Maximum power and simplicity: Canon PowerShot SX120 IS with 10x optical zoom lens

Canon today announced the launch of the PowerShot SX120 IS, a new digital compact camera high quality, incorporating a powerful and versatile 10x optical zoom lens, DIGIC 4 imaging processor and Intelligent Auto Mode ( ‘Smart Car’), giving around the world capture high resolution images in a simple way.

The new PowerShot SX120 IS gives you great power and simplicity in handling, while exploiting the advantages of its predecessor, the PowerShot SX110 IS, while the ergonomic design incorporates curved lines, light body and a finish in elegant black.

Advanced technology with a flexible zoom
The PowerShot SX120 IS is ideal for capturing a variety of scenes and activities. Having a 10x optical zoom lens is perfect for photographing the moments of the holidays and school holidays, which often is necessary to have a more powerful zoom.

To capture images perfectly sharp, the PowerShot SX120 IS features technologies that can greatly reduce the effects of camera shake and subject. The optical Image Stabilizer (IS), the Auto ISO setting and Motion Detection Technology working together to offer a complete anti-blur. In order to capture even the smallest detail, the PowerShot SX120 IS features a 10 megapixel sensor and DIGIC 4 processor powerful, intelligent, thus ensuring very quick response times and natural color reproduction. DIGIC 4 also handles difficult lighting conditions with the i-Contrast, a new technology that prevents the highlights are washed, without detail, while also preserving details in the shaded areas.

Simplicity coupled with advanced control
The PowerShot SX120 IS features Intelligent Auto Modes ( ‘Smart Car’) and Easy, with technology Scene Detection to enable trouble-free shots. By analyzing people, of distance, brightness and color in the scene, the camera automatically selects from 18 different scenes, to optimize the settings and get better results. Thus, the user can concentrate on the scene, while the camera handles the technical details.
The framing and reviewing pictures is very easy, thanks to a bright LCD screen, wide viewing angle and 3 inches.
Users with greater knowledge of photography can choose the settings as additional shooting modes such as Aperture-priority and priority to shutter speed. Also, the camera has a full manual mode, perfect for users who want to experiment further.

This camera also can record VGA movies with sound, so you can catch all the action in motion, in addition to capturing the perfect photos.

Technology beautiful portraits with Face Detection
PowerShot SX120 IS features the DIGIC 4 processor with the most advanced technology Face Detection, which can recognize up to 35 faces within a scene and automatically adjusts focus and exposure to ensure that everyone out their best. This technology includes Automatic Red-Eye Correction, Face Detection AF / AE / FE and the Self-timer with Face Detection, a function that is ideal for group shots and self portraits, as the camera waits until detects a new face in the scene before firing the shutter. The faces can also be detected even if they are at an angle to the camera, thus both the approach and the correct exposure, although subjects are not looking directly at the camera.

The Selection and Face Tracking also allows the user to select a particular face as the main subject of the photo. This person selected is followed as it moves across the stage, ensuring that the selected face is the preferred subject and captured one after another. This feature is ideal when photographing a person in a scene with many people.

Whatever your photographic knowledge, the PowerShot SX120 IS lets you capture stunning images and is very simple and easy to use.

The SX120 IS owners are entitled to free membership of CANON iMAGE GATEWAY, an online photo sharing service. Users will benefit from new features that will be available in October, such as increased storage capacity to 2GB, which can store and share hundreds of high quality images. Family and friends will also enjoy seeing the online photo albums from their mobile phones, thanks to the new role for mobile viewing. Additionally, users of Canon PIXMA printers can now create, share and print images from your photo album using the new function PIXMA Album Printing. CANON iMAGE GATEWAY is the ideal place for users of Canon photo sharing and high-quality videos with family and friends.