Canon PowerShot A1000 IS User Manual

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What Do You Want to Do?
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Shoot
● Shoot, Leaving It to the Camera to Make Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 22
● Just Taking Pictures (Easy mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
● Shooting Various Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55–58
- Take good shots of people
- Take good landscapes
- Shoot various other scenes
● Focus on faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
●
Shoot in places where I cannot use the flash (turn off the flash) . . 59
● Shoot pictures with me in them too (self-timer). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
● Insert the date and time into my pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
● Take close-up pictures of subjects (macro shooting) . . . . . . . . . 64
● Take sepia toned or black and white pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
● Change the size of picture I want to take (recording pixels) . . . . 70
● Take pictures continuously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
● Shoot without camera shake (image stabilization) . . . . . . . . . . 124
● Shoot without camera shake even in low light conditions
(high ISO speed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58, 72
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At night
(p. 55)
At the beach
(p. 57)
Snowscapes
(p. 57)
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Kids and pets
(p. 55)
Portraits
(p. 55)
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Landscape
(p. 55)
Nightscape
(p. 57)
Foliage
(p. 57)
Sunset
(p. 57)
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Indoors
(p. 56)
Fireworks
(p. 58)
Aquarium
(p. 58)
Low light
(p. 58)
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Canon PowerShot A1000 IS Specifications

General

Megapixel	10 MP
Camera type	Compact camera
Sensor type	CCD
Image stabilizer	Yes
Image sensor size	1/2.3 \
Maximum image resolution	3648 x 2736 pixels
Interface	USB
Digital SLR	No
Camera shutter speed	1/60 - 1/1600 s
Compatible operating systems	Windows XP SP2 / Vista Mac OS X v10.4 - 10.5
Focal length (35mm film equivalent)	35 - 140 mm
Digital zoom	4 x
Focus	TTL
Auto focusing (AF) modes	Spot Auto Focus
Closest focusing distance	0.03 m
ISO sensitivity	80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600
Flash modes	auto, Flash off, Red-eye reduction
Flash range (wide)	0.30 - 4 m
Compatible memory cards	mmc, sd
Motion JPEG frame rate	30 fps
Video formats supported	AVI
Maximum video resolution	640 x 480 pixels
Display diagonal	2.5 \
Display resolution (numeric)	115000 pixels
Scene modes	beach, Children, Fireworks, Night portrait, Portrait, Landscape (scenery)
Photo effects	black&white, Neutral, Sepia, Vivid
White balance	auto, Cloudy, custom modes, daylight, Fluorescent, manual, Tungsten
Image processor	DIGIC III
Playback zoom (max)	2 x
Product color	Blue
Battery type	AA
Battery technology	Alkaline
Number of batteries supported	2
Bundled software	ZoomBrowser EX / ImageBrowser

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	62.4 mm
Width	95.4 mm
Height	31 mm
Weight	155 g