Canon Powershot SD550 Digital Elph Camera, 7.1 megapixel, 3x Optical Zoom, 4.0x Digital Zoom, 2.5" LCD Screen

Key Features

• Ultra-Compact 7.1 Megapixel Digital ELPH with 3x Optical Zoom and robust yet elegantly designed, curved body.
• PowerShot SD550 Digital ELPH offers renowned style while requiring no compromisein image quality. Within the ultra-compact perpetual curve design is a powerful 7.1 Megapixel CCD for stunningly detailed images. A 3x optical zoom puts Canon'srenowned leadership in lens technology at your fingertips
• Large 2.5 inch LCD screen and optical viewfinder for easier on-camera viewing.
• Though its body is superbly slim, the PowerShot SD550 Digital ELPH has an oversized 2.5 inch LCD screen that makes it easy to frame and play back your scene. The SD550 Digital ELPH also has an optical viewfinder to enable you to capture your memories even in the sunniest of situations.
• And when you're shooting at dusk or at night, the Night Display function lets you see the display clearly. It brightens the object by reducing the frame rate on the LCD screen.
• Canon Technology Maximizes Quality and Performance. DIGIC II Image Processor for even faster processing speed, crisp vibrant colors and excellent image quality.
• The PowerShot SD550 Digital ELPH incorporates Canon's DIGIC II Image Processor. Designed to improve processing speed and image quality, the DIGIC II Image Processor provides markedly faster camera startup, autofocus and playback plus it assures that every image is more colorfully vibrant.
• Superior quality movies. Shoot your own high-quality movies with Fast Frame Rate Movie Mode. Now you can reel them in at 60 fps (320 x 240) or 30 fps (640 x 480).
• Fast Frame Rate Movie Mode allows you to record extremely smooth, full-motion movie clips up to 1 minute long in QVGA at 60 fps (320 x 240 pixels). The highlyflexible movie mode lets you create the movie that's perfect for your application.
• Select from VGA (640 x 480 pixels) and QVGA (320 x 240 pixels), with frame ratesof 30 fps and 15 fps, plus Compact Mode (QQVGA; 160 x 120 pixels) at 15 fps up to 3 minutes.
• Expand the creative ideas. 15 Shooting Modes to capture every situation, including Canon's original My Colors Mode for customization while shooting.
• With the PowerShot SD550 Digital ELPH, you can count on exact focus no matter where your subject is in the frame. You've got Shooting Modes including Special Scene Mode that give you breathtaking, exhilarating pictures even when shooting conditions are tough.
• And you can both customize color reproduction and "touch up" color while you're shooting! Lighten skin tones, make the sky a more vivid blue, emphasize a singlecolor and much more, all in real time as you monitor results on the LCD screen.
• Auto: The camera chooses all the settings so you can concentrate on your subject.
• Manual: The ultimate in creative control, you set ISO speed, exposure compensation and white balance.
• Portrait: The camera sets a large aperture, focuses the subject and artistically blurs thebackground to make your subject "pop"
• Foliage: Capture brilliant shots of autumn foliage, greenery or blossoms.
• Snow: Shoot clear snow scenes without darkened subjects and bluish tint.
• Beach: Get clear shots of people at a sunny beach without the darkened faces
• Fireworks: Grab brilliant images of skyrocketing fireworks.
• Underwater: Capture underwater images with reduced backscatter effect. (Note: Optional Waterproof Case AW-DC50 required for shooting any underwater images)
• Indoor: Reduces blur and improves color accuracy when shooting handheld indoors.
• Kids & Pets: Reduced time lag freezes fast-moving subjects so you won't miss those special shots.
• Night Snapshot: Get natural looking pictures with brighter backgrounds and subjects lit by flash.
• Digital Macro: Shoot larger-than-life close-ups with one-button simplicity.
• Stitch Assist: Build inspiring panoramas by neatly aligning sequential images.
• Movie: Shoot in VGA (30 fps), QVGA (15 fps), or QQVGA (15 fps up to 3 minutes video).
• My Colors*
• Positive Film: Combine Vivid Red, Vivid Green and Vivid Blue to achieve a positive film effect
• Lighter Skin Tone: make your subjects skin tone paler
• Darker Skin Tone: Darken skin tones a shade
• Vivid Red: charge up red objects in your images for extra impact
• Vivid Blue: emphasize the sea, sky or other blue areas
• Vivid Green: Add vivid dimension to greens for extraordinary nature shots
• Color Accent: choose to retain a single color in your image while other colors turn monochrome
• Color Swap: select a color and replace it with a color you specify for special effects
• Custom Color: set balance of red, green, blue and skin colors, finely adjust brightness and vividness
• The Complete Print Solution Print/Share Button for easy direct printing and downloading plus ID Photo Print and Movie Print with Canon CP and SELPHY Photo Printers
• The PowerShot SD550's Print/Share button makes direct printing easier than ever.Simply connect the SD550 to a Canon CP, SELPHY or PIXMA Photo Printer or any PictBridge compatible photo printer, press the lighted Print/Share button and print! Also use the Print/Share button to transfer images directly to a computer(Windows and Macintosh)