Digital Photography Review
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| International naming | • US / Canada:
Canon PowerShot S400 Digital Elph • Europe / SE Asia: Canon Digital IXUS 400 • Japan: Canon IXY DIGITAL 400 |
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| Street Price | US: $500 [check
/ order] UK: £500 [check / order] |
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| Body Material | "Cerabrite" (metal / ceramic mix) | |
| CCD pixels |  |
4.1 megapixels |
| JCIA effective pixels | |
4.0 million |
| CCD size | |
1/1.8" (7.2 x 5.3 mm - more info) |
| CCD Colour Filter Array | |
G - R - G - B |
| Image sizes | • 2272 x 1704 • 1600 x 1200 • 1024 x 768 • 640 x 480 |
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| Movie clips | • 320 x 240, 15
fps, up to 3 mins • 160 x 120, 15 fps, up to 3 mins |
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| Image ratio w:h | 4:3 | |
| File formats | |
• Still: JPEG EXIF 2.2 • Movie: AVI (Motion JPEG + Wave audio) |
| JPEG quality levels | • Super-Fine • Fine • Normal |
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| Sensitivity equiv. | |
• Auto • ISO 50 • ISO 100 • ISO 200 • ISO 400 |
| Zoom wide (W) | |
36 mm |
| Zoom tele (T) | |
108 mm (3x) |
| Zoom steps | 7 steps (including full wide and full telephoto) | |
| Lens Thread | None | |
| Lens Max Aperture | |
F2.8 - F4.9 |
| Digital zoom | |
Up to 3.6x |
| Focus modes | • 9-point AiAF • 1-point AF |
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| AF Illumination lamp | |
Yes (can be disabled) |
| Manual Focus | |
No |
| Focus range | |
• Normal: 46 cm - Infinity
(1.5 ft - Infinity) • Macro (Wide): 5 - 46 cm (2.0 - 18.1 in) • Macro (Tele): 30 - 46 cm (11.8 - 18.1 in) |
| Shooting modes | • Auto • Manual • Stitch Asssist • Movie (with sound) |
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| AF Lock | Yes (shutter release half press + focus button) | |
| Metering | |
• Evaluative |
| Min shutter | |
• Auto: 1/8 sec • Manual: 1 sec • Manual 'long shutter': 15 sec |
| Max shutter | |
1/2000 sec |
| Noise reduction | Yes, automatic below 1.3 sec | |
| Aperture Priority | No | |
| Shutter Priority | No | |
| Exposure compen. | |
-2 EV to +2 EV in 1/3 EV steps |
| AE Lock | Yes (shutter release half press + meter button) | |
| White Balance | |
• Auto • Daylight • Cloudy • Tungsten • Fluorescent • Fluorescent H • Custom |
| Photo Effects | • Vivid • Neutral • Low Sharpening • Sepia • Black & White |
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| Drive modes | |
• Single • Continuous High: 2.5 fps, up to 5 frames • Continuous Normal: 1.5 fps, up to 8 frames |
| Flash | Yes, internal | |
| Flash range (Auto ISO) |
• Wide: 0.30 - 3.5 m (1.0 - 11.5 ft) |
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| Flash modes |
• Auto Flash |
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| Flash compensation | +/- 2.0 EV in 0.3 EV steps | |
| External flash | No | |
| Tripod mount | Yes, metal | |
| Self-timer | Yes, 2 or 10 sec | |
| Remote control | No | |
| Time-lapse recording | No | |
| Video out | Yes, selectable NTSC / PAL | |
| Storage media | |
• Compact Flash Type I • FAT 12/16 and FAT 32 support |
| Storage included | 32 MB CF card supplied | |
| Viewfinder | |
Optical, no dioptre adjustment |
| LCD | |
• 1.5" TFT LCD • 118,000 pixels |
| Print compliance | • DPOF • Canon Direct Printing - Card Photo Printers, Bubble Jet Printers with direct print function |
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| Other features | • My Camera • Orientation sensor • iSAPS technology • Movie editting • Sound memo (up to 60 secs) • Magnify Zoom (2 - 10x) • Histogram display • Slide show • DPOF / Transfer Order |
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| Connectivity | |
• USB 1.1 (inc PTP) • A/V out |
| Battery | |
Lithium-Ion NB-1LH rechargeable battery supplied |
| Battery charger | |
Yes, supplied |
| Weight (inc. battery) | 222 g (7.8 oz) | |
| Dimensions | 87 x 57 x 28 mm (3.4 x 2.2 x 1.1 in) |
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