Capture Your Best Shots Easily.
Smart AUTO detects and analyzes faces, brightness, colors, distance, and movement, then compensates and enhances to make every image the best it can be by selecting an appropriate setting for the scene.
Just set the Canon PowerShot SX120 IS to Smart AUTO and you're ready for maximum enjoyment from your picture taking every time. It's a relaxing and satisfying way to shoot because you can completely concentrate on your subject, knowing that the camera has the technical details covered. Advanced Canon technology intelligently analyzes your situation and shooting conditions. Then it automatically selects an appropriate setting from 18 specially defined settings. So whether you're photographing flowers, a captivating sunset, or your friends at the park, you can be confident that you're getting dramatic, memorable images.
No Worries, Just Great Pictures.
Easy Mode makes capturing images as easy as 1-2-3! The camera takes all the guesswork out of the equation by determining the right shooting mode for the situation.
Even if you've never picked up a camera before, with Canon's new Easy Mode you can take inspiring, dramatic pictures that will impress everyone. Once you choose Easy Mode, the PowerShot SX120 IS handles all the details automatically. It automatically sets every camera control, including the flash, to reduce blur and improve image quality. So you get pictures that are bright, clear and natural just by pushing a button. Best of all, you can relax and concentrate on what really counts - your subject.
With 20 Shooting Modes including 8 Special Scene Modes, you're ready for whatever shot comes your way.
Powerful Zoom, True-to-Life Imaging
This high-powered 10x Optical Zoom with Optical Image Stabilizer ensures clear images whether you are up close or further away.
The PowerShot SX120 IS has a 10x Optical Zoom lens that makes it easy to get the inspiring, emotive close-ups that will make your images lasting keepsakes. This magnificent lens gives you the power to shoot distant subjects with razor-sharp precision and stunning lifelike color so you can brilliantly capture a bird high atop a tree, a child's winning goal from across the stadium or a school play from the last row. Plus, thanks to Canon's highly sophisticated Optical Image Stabilizer Technology, even at maximum zoom, every image is rock steady.
It's All About Capturing the Smiles.
Lightweight, compact camera with the DIGIC 4 Image Processor and high resolution 10.0 Megapixels you can take anywhere you go!
DIGIC 4 Image Processor
With DIGIC 4, your images boast superior quality, the camera operates at top efficiency and battery life is enhanced. What's more, the DIGIC 4 Image Processor enables Canon's Face Detection, Motion Detection Technologies and Red-eye Correction to give you better, more true-to-life people shots. Simply press the shutter button halfway down, and the camera automatically pinpoints the faces in the scene and chooses the ideal focus point. The camera controls exposure settings and flash to keep every face looking bright and natural. The camera also selects and sets the optimal exposure and ISO settings automatically to keep everything looking sharp and clear. Red-eye Correction can be handled in-camera, in two ways. The Red-eye Correction during shooting uses the Face Detection Technology to recognize and remove red-eye from images as they're taken, before the file is written to the memory card. It's also possible to correct red-eye during image playback, using simple settings in the PowerShot SX120 IS menu.
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Specifications
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| Type of Camera |
Compact digital still camera with built-in flash, 10x Optical/4x Digital/40x Combined Zoom with Optical Image Stabilizer System |
| Type |
10.0 Megapixel, 1/2.5-inch type Charge Coupled Device (CCD) |
| Total Pixels |
Approx. 10.3 Megapixels |
| Effective Pixels |
Approx. 10.0 Megapixels |
| Focal Length |
6.0 (W) - 60.0mm (T) f/2.8 (W) - f/4.3 (T)
(35mm equivalent: 36 (W) - 360 (T) mm) |
| Digital Zoom |
10x |
| Focusing Range |
Normal: 1.6 ft./50cm-infinity (W), 3.3 ft./1m-infinity (T)
Macro: 0.4 in.-1.6 ft./1-50cm (W) |
| Autofocus System |
TTL Autofocus |
| Viewfinder |
None |
| LCD Monitor |
3.0-inch low-temperature polycrystalline silicon TFT color LCD with wide viewing angle |
| LCD Pixels |
Approx. 230,000 pixels |
| LCD Coverage |
100% |
| Maximum Aperture |
f/2.8 (W) - f/4.3 (T) |
| Shutter Speed |
15-1/2500 sec. (settable in Tv and M) |
| ISO Sensitivity |
Auto, ISO 80/100/200/400/800/1600 equivalent
(Subject movement is taken into account while shooting in Auto and Easy modes) |
| Light Metering Method |
Evaluative*, Center-weighted average, spot**
* Facial brightness is also evaluated in Face Detect AF
** Fixed to center |
| Exposure Control Method |
Program AE, Manual; AE Lock, Program Shift, Safety Shift, Auto ISO Shift |
| Exposure Compensation |
+/-2 stops in 1/3-stop increments |
