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PowerShot A1300

PowerShot A1300

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Marketed April 2012

PowerShot A1300 digital camera is comfortable to use. Its Optical Viewfinder offers a pleasantly classic feel that’s great for shooting in strong sunlight, and ideal for use when the battery power is running low. Image quality is excellent and automatic with Smart AUTO that recognizes 32 predefined shooting situations and selects proper camera settings for each. A new Help Button assists with simple explanations of controls. By simply pressing the dedicated movie button, the user can begin shooting vivid, lifelike 720p HD video. With 16.0 Megapixels of resolution and DIGIC 4 Image Processor, images are incredibly detailed and performance is fast and responsive. It comes with the 5x Optical Zoom with 28mm Wide-Angle lens.

Camera Effective Pixels Approx. 16.0 million pixels
Lens Focal Length 5x zoom: 5.0 (W) – 25.0 (T) mm
(35mm film equivalent: 28 (W) – 140 (T) mm)
Viewfinder Real-image optical zoom viewfinder
LCD Monitor 2.7 type color TFT LCD
Effective Pixels: Approx. 230,000 dots
File Formats Design rule for Camera File system, DPOF (version 1.1) compliant
Data Types Still Images: Exif 2.3 (JPEG)
Movies: MOV (H.264 video data, Linear PCM (monaural) audio data)
Interfaces Hi-speed USB
Analog audio output (monaural)
Analog video output (NTSC/PAL)
Power AA alkaline batteries (AA NiMH batteries (Canon NB-3AH)) x2
Compact Power Adapter CA-PS800 (included with AC Adapter Kit ACK800)
・ However, connection requires DC Coupler DR-DC10, sold separately
Dimensions (Based on
CIPA Guidelines)
94.7 x 61.7 x 29.8 mm (3.73 x 2.43 x 1.17 in.)
Weight (Based on
CIPA Guidelines)
Approx. 174 g (approx. 6.14 oz.) (Including battery and memory card)
Approx. 126 g (approx. 4.44 oz.) (Camera body only)
Shooting Range
(Shooting Mode: AUTO)
Maximum Wide Angle 3 cm (1.2 in.) – infinity
Maximum Telephoto 1.2 m (3.9 ft.) – infinity
Shutter Speed Auto mode,
automatically set range
1 – 1/2000 sec.
Range in all shooting modes 15 – 1/2000 sec.
Aperture f/number f/2.8 / f/7.9(W), f/6.9 / f/20(T)