Canon PowerShot SX40 HS is a combination of 12-megapixel CMOS sensor and 35-fold optical zoom.
Canon PowerShot SX40 HS is in addition to advanced range of superzoom compacts, which are offered by the Japanese manufacturer. The main distinguishing features of the new model are the wide-angle lens with 35x optical zoom, offering a range of focal lengths from 24 to 840 millimeters and a 12.1-megapixel CMOS sensor with a standard diagonal 1 / 2, 33 inches.
This camera is one of the first models equipped with the new DIGIC 5th its mission is to increase the efficiency of the sensor, for example through the ability to record movies in Full HD (1920 x 1080p, 24 frames per second). What's more, the HS SX40 is equipped with ultrasonic motor (USM) and a linear DC motor (VCM), so that zooming and focusing is fast and silent, both in shooting and shooting.
Optical Image Stabilizer technology has been enhanced with Intelligent IS detects the shooting conditions and automatically adjusting the settings for stability. For example, the widescreen mode is activated when taking pictures at the race track, while stabilizing in only one direction, while the Macro IS ON will be when the subject will be near the front of the lens.
It should be emphasized that the manufacturer has provided a new compact, multi-territorial preset white balance, allowing detecting a scene with two different types of light. Then the compact software corrects the white balance for each area separately.
New PowerShot SX40 HS can also be used for photographing and filming in slow motion. In a first aspect we are dealing with a serial mode that allows you to capture images at up to 10.3 frames per second. In the second - shooting in VGA quality at 120 frames per second (or QVGA at a rate of 240 frames per second). In framing helps here a 2.7-inch PureColor LCD II VA.
More advanced users will appreciate the likely possibility of using P, A, S, M, and a number of creative filters such as fisheye, vivid colors, the effect of a poster, and the effect of thumbnails that work well when shooting. If at any time there is not enough natural light, you can always hook hot-shoe flash any of the Canon Speedlite EX series.
