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Canon New IXUS Digital Camera Line ‘Winks’ and ‘Smiles’ at Hong Kong
Forget multi-touch, this camera takes your photo from facial gestures.
Canon Hong Kong introduced a new line of cameras that lets you take self portraits with either a wink or a smile. The new IXUS 210, IXUS 130 and IXUS 105 digital compact cameras include some nifty tech that makes taking photos just a little bit easier.
The Scene Detection Technology incorporated with the new Smart Flash Exposure intelligently adjusts flash level for different shooting conditions, eliminating uneven light exposure for great natural-looking photos. The new Smart Shutter mode now includes a “Wink Self-Timer” mode and a “Smile Self-Timer” mode, allowing perfectly-timed self-portrait and group photos to be taken effortlessly.
However Neonpunch was quite happy to stand behind the camera and take photos of the beautiful and voluptuous Gabi Endo a Japanese Brazilian Eurasian model who has a dazzling smile.
Shooting can be even more fun now, new IXUS 210 and IXUS 130 are incorporated with Miniature and Fish-eye Effects for creation of special photos, users can now capture more creative and interesting photos. After selecting the subject, the Miniature Effect blurs the background areas and emphasizes the subject, creating a similar effect of miniature models captured by Tilt-Shift Lens. While the Fish-eye Effect intentionally expands the central area of an image to create an interesting convex effect. Users can choose from three levels, Low, Medium and High, for different level of enlargement and convexity to make great fun of different effects.
The IXUS 210 features a 3.5-inch PureColor II Touch wide LCD that enables users to customize the position of different function shortcuts on the touch panel, even left-handers can enjoy an easy and intuitive camera operation. In addition, users can select the focus point by just touching the screen. The camera can also track the selected objects or individuals and automatically keep in focus even they are in motion, which allows users to capture the perfect image every time.
“Touch Action” shortcuts also allow users to customize 4 commonly used functions from 10 pre-set functions, such as erasing, rotating, slideshow or tagging images as “Favourites”. Users can control a variety of camera functions simply by dragging finger across the screen. Browsing images has never been easier.
Key Features of IXUS 210
24mm ultra wide-angle 5x optical zoom lens with lens-shift type image stabilizer
3.5-inch wide LCD Touch panel
14.1-megapixel CCD
DIGIC 4 Digital Image Processor
Enhanced Scene Detection technology, with Smart Flash Exposure
Face Detect AiAF function, with Touch Face Tracking and Blink Detection function
New Smart Shutter, with Face, Smile and Wink Self-Timer
New Low Light Shooting mode1, support ISO 6400 High ISO Speed
Motion Detection function, with Intelligent ISO Speed Setting and Servo AF function
High Definition 1280 x 720 movie shooting
Enhanced Creative Light Effect
New Fish-eye and Miniature Effect
Enhanced i-Contrast function for keeping more image details
Enhanced Active Display that easily switches photos by shaking or tapping camera gently
SDXC memory card supported
Built-in HDMI-mini terminal for easy connection to HDTV
3 choices of camera body (Silver, Pink, and Black)
Price - HK$2,980
Key Features of IXUS 130
28mm wide-angle 4x optical zoom lens with lens-shift type image stabilizer
2.7-inch LCD
14.1-megapixel CCD
Slim Camera Body of only 17.8mm
DIGIC 4 Digital Image Processor
Enhanced Scene Detection technology, with Smart Flash Exposure
Face Detect AiAF function, with Blink Detection function
New Smart Shutter, with Face, Smile and Wink Self-Timer
New Low Light Shooting mode2, support ISO 6400 High ISO Speed
Motion Detection function, with Intelligent ISO Speed Setting and Servo AF function
High Definition 1280 x 720 movie shooting
New Fish-eye and Miniature Effect
Enhanced i-Contrast function for keeping more image details
SDXC memory card supported
Built-in HDMI-mini terminal for easy connection to HDTV
New slim 40m waterproof case WP-DC37, switching to Underwater mode automatically
4 choices of camera body (Silver, Black, Orange, and Pink)
Price - HK$2,480
Key Features of IXUS 105
28mm wide-angle 4x optical zoom lens with lens-shift type image stabilizer
2.7-inch 230,000-dot PureColor II LCD
12.1-megapixel CCD
DIGIC 4 Digital Image Processor
Enhanced Scene Detection technology, with Smart Flash Exposure
Face Detect AiAF function, with Face Self-timer
New Low Light Shooting mode3, support ISO 6400 High ISO Speed
Motion Detection function, with Intelligent ISO Speed Setting
Enhanced i-Contrast function for keeping more image details
SDXC memory card supported
5 choices of camera body (Silver, Brown, Blue, Pink, and Green)
Price - HK$1,880
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[...] around for several years, and the feature is now widespread. Some Canon’s now have a ‘wink self-timer‘ mode that activates the shutter for self portraits by sensing facial gestures. And [...]