Posted on Wednesday, November 30 2005 @ 02:23:10 CET by LSDsmurf
The Canon PowerShot S80 ($549) is a fairly compact 8 Megapixel camera whose biggest features include a wide 28 - 100 mm lens and large 2.5" LCD. The S80 is the descendent of the PowerShot S60 and S70, which had a similar design. The S80 shares many of the same features as those cameras, including full manual controls, an AF-assist lamp, support for conversion lenses, and a VGA movie mode (though it's much improved on the S80). While the old S60 and S70 used CompactFlash memory, the new S80 uses Secure Digital (as do all of Canon's 2005 PowerShots). One thing that didn't make it to the S80 is support for the RAW image format. Learn more about this 8MP digicam over at DCRP.
