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Canon Canon or Canons may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Canon (fiction), the material accepted as officially written by an author or an ascribed author * Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture ** Western canon, th ...

PowerShot S80 is an 8.0

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digital camera A digital camera, also called a digicam, is a camera that captures photographs in Digital data storage, digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film or film stock. Dig ...

originally released in 2005. The PowerShot S80 is the successor of

Canon PowerShot S70 The Canon PowerShot S is a series of digital cameras released by Canon Inc., Canon, as part of the wider Canon PowerShot, PowerShot range. The S-series was originally a line of compact point-and-shoot cameras, slowly evolving into a wikt:prosumer#E ...

. At introduction, its MSRP was US$599.

Features

* 8.0

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JPEG JPEG ( , short for Joint Photographic Experts Group and sometimes retroactively referred to as JPEG 1) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degr ...

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Exif Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other system ...

2.2) support *

Film speed Film speed is the measure of a photographic film's sensitivity to light, determined by sensitometry and measured on various numerical scales, the most recent being the ISO system introduced in 1974. A closely related system, also known as IS ...

equivalent of ISO 50–400 * Wide-angle zoom lens 28 mm–105 mm * Completely manual settings *

DIGIC II Digital Imaging Integrated Circuit (often styled as "DiG!C") is Canon Inc.'s name for a family of signal processing and control units for digital cameras and camcorders. DIGIC units are used as image processors by Canon in its own digital imagi ...

Sample photos

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References

Canon S80 Review
on DPReview, Retrieved November 1, 2006

External links

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