Canon PowerShot TX1 digital camera 05 March, 2007 - Canon's very compact 7.1 megapixel PowerShot TX1 digital camera featuring a 10x optical zoom comes in a deck of playing cards-sized package. Optically image-stabilized, 10x optical zoom lens of TX1 glides smoothly from its resting place into the open air. Unfold a simple yet securely hinged housing, and an 115,000-pixel Vari-Angle LCD screen is freed to swivel camcorder-like from the PowerShot TX1 digital camera's side.
This pocket sized camera even adds a 30 fps High Definition (HD) 720p widescreen (16:9) capability to its movie mode at the press of a button.
The optical image stabilization (OIS) system helps to significantly reduce the blurring effects of camera shake that can occur at long zoom settings or during long exposures, specially when the camera is hand-held or in low-light conditions.
The "brain" of this new PowerShot camera is DIGIC III, the newest iteration of Canon's ultra-efficient (and proprietary) image processor. It accounts for the camera's higher performance levels including faster start up, autofocus and shutter response times, improved image quality and more efficient power consumption; resulting in extended battery life under typical shooting conditions.
With Canon's new Face Detection AF/AE/FE function, the camera can detect, lock on, and track multiple human faces in a scene. Working with the camera's Face Detection technology, Canon's new Red-eye Correction feature helps detect and corrects, during playback mode, that bothersome by-product of flash photography. Images can be corrected manually while viewing photos on the LCD screen to help vanquish red-eye, once and for all.
Users can shoot home movies while recording CD quality Stereo Sound, in 44 KHz. It allows the user to use 10x optical zoom lens and image stabilization while shooting movies, which is a rare feature in most digital cameras. In addition to recording widescreen 720p HD movies at a rate of 30 fps for stunning High Definition clarity, the TX1 digital camera shoots high-quality VGA (640 x 480 pixels) movies at 30 fps (in a traditional 4:3 aspect ratio) and has the option of shooting at 30 fps or 60 fps in the QVGA 320 x 240-pixel setting (also in 4:3 format).
The PowerShot TX1 digital camera comes equipped with 14 shooting modes, expertly allowing for a myriad of different photo preferences and conditions including Automatic, Camera Manual, Super Macro for close-up work, Color Accent, Color Swap, Stitch-Assist, Movie (including HD), and seven Special Scene Modes: Portrait, Night Snapshot, Indoor, Foliage, Snow, Beach and Aquarium.
Newly adapted for the PowerShot TX1 digital camera's 7.1 megapixel CCD image sensor, MovieSnap enables users to capture high-resolution still images while recording movies, helping to ensure that milestone memories are preserved for picture frames, photo albums and e-mail sharing as well as for video viewing.
The LCD screen that swings out, comes with a new multi-layer coating on the surface of the screen which is glare and scratch resistant, and provides enhanced resistance to dust and fingerprints.
Canon's on-board Intelligent Orientation Sensor automatically detects whether the camera is being held vertically or horizontally, so PowerShot TX1 digital camera users have the freedom to shoot and share their photos quickly and with incomparable ease.
Canon PowerShot TX1 digital camera is Windows Vista compatible as well as fully compatible with other operating systems including Windows XP and Mac OS X (Versions 10.2 - 10.4).
TX1 will be in stores in March 2007 at an estimated selling price of $499.99.
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