Canon Powershot SD960 IS Digital Camera

Canon Powershot SD960 IS Digital Camera video transcript:

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Hey everybody, welcome back to Computer TV. I'm Sam, and today I'm going to tell you

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about these new Cannons. Now these are the PowerShot SD960 ISes,

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stands for Image Stabilization. And let me tell you, these cameras are awesome.

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I have so much to tell you about them. I don't even know where to start, really.

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First of all, they come in a bunch of different colors, as you can see.

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I'm gonna show you around this pink one, but let me start by telling you that this is a

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12.1 megapixel camera. You have a 4x optical zoom.

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You have ISO capabilities, up to 1600. You have 19 different shooting modes,

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including movie mode. And actually, one of the shooting modes is ISO 3200.

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So listen, if you're shooting in low light, I think this camera is definitely

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going to take care of you. You also can do instant editing on your camera.

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You don't have to plug it into a PC.

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So, if you need to do simple things like crop and resize, you can do that.

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Also it has a rechargeable battery, so no need to carry

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some extra batteries along with you.

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And it has a 2.8'' widescreen LCD, as you can see right here.

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So it's a really great camera. OK listen, if you're a beginner,

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beginner to intermediate, I would say this camera probably has

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the newest technology out there on the market right now, this Cannon.

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Alright, I'm gonna show you around the camera first.

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Turn it on, power button's up top. And then you have your Mode Selection button

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right next to your Power button. This is how you switch from Movie Mode

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to Program/Manual Mode and Auto Mode, right here.

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You have your shutter release right here, and then this, right here, is your zoom.

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And you can see it. I'm going to turn the camera to the side.

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You can see your 4x optical zoom, like so.

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So you have your lens right here. This is a glass lens.

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Turn it over, again, you have your 2.5'' LCD.

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You have your Playback button.

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Now, this is your scrolling wheel.

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And this is how you navigate around the camera, as well as select

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your flash, your Macro Mode, your self timer, and your display.

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You have your Menu button right here. On the side, when you open this up

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you'll see you have an HDMI port. Let's see, let's get it open.

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Oh, there you go. You have an HDMI port,

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and you have a USB port. Now the HDMI port is really cool.

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I see more and more digital cameras coming out with it.

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It's basically to hook up to your HDTV and you can watch all your pictures.

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You can set up a slide show. You can watch your movies all on the big screen.

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I like that feature.

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And turning over to the underneath of the camera, you'll see right here

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this is your slot to hook up to a tripod. And right here you have your

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battery and your SD card. Now, this takes SD and SDHC, MMC, and MMC+ cards.

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So that's good to note. You'll definitely want to get some extra storage

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because this Cannon does not have any internal memory.

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So you need a card.

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Don't worry. You can have as many pictures as you want.

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Just get one of those SDHC cards.

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Alright, so now I'm going to show you basically, all the cool features,

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and more on this Cannon. I'm going to power it back on.

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So right now, we are in auto mode, as you can see.

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But to get out of auto mode you just click right here

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to "P" for Program Mode, or also known as Manual Mode.

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And when you hit this Function/Settings button,

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you'll see it takes you here and you go to the "P".

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And if you use your scrolling wheel and scroll down,

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you'll see all your different scene selections.

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So you have Portrait. You have your Nighttime.

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Keep on going down, Kids, Pets, Fireworks, there's Snow, there's Surfing,

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there's Nighttime, Fireworks, the list goes on and on.

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It's, you have a lot of different options here,

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which makes shooting easy, if you ask me.

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Alright, so let's get out of here and let's go into Movie Mode.

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OK, and I did that just by clicking up here to the movie. OK?

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So now when you're in Movie Mode, you do the same thing.

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You can go and hit your functions button, and this is where you can customize the size.

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We'll just go, you can white balance, we'll go through these.

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Right here, your quality. Now, you can go into here and you can set the resolution.

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Now, the highest resolution is 1280 x 720.

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And the lowest is 320 x 240.

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So, if you're making movies just for the web,

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make sure you put them on that 320 setting so they're not too large

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and you don't have to stand there waiting forever for your video to upload.

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Alright, another great feature on this Cannon is that it has Stitch Mode.

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And if you go back into Manual Mode, and if you go back into Manual Mode,

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like so, and scroll down to all your different scene selections,

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which we showed you earlier.

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At the very end, keep on scrolling,

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you'll see, right here, Stitch Assist. OK? Now Stitch Assist is basically

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pasting together three or four different images to get a panoramic view.

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It's really, really interesting, you know, if you're on a trip and you want to get

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a couple different images and really have that 180 or 360 view,

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you can do that with Stitch Assist.

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Now, we're going to go back into regular mode.

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So, let's get all the way back up here into Program Mode.

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There we go, OK. So, once you're back here,

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I'm going to take a couple pictures of myself.

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Alright, stand by. Alright we'll take another, like an angle shot.

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OK, now what's cool about this camera is that it also has blink detection.

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It has face detection. It has eye contrast detection.

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And you can get all that by going into Menu, alright,

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once you're in Menu, from here and you go to Settings,

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you have to click, there you go, you go into Settings,

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and you can find, where is it? Oh, here we go.

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So once you're in here, once you're into your Settings,

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here you can see Eye Contrast.

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Now, Eye Contrast is a feature that basically can detect and compensate

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for faces that are dark in the picture.

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And if you keep going down you'll see Blink Detection, which is great.

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So, basically, what Blink Detection does is, let's say you take a picture,

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and someone in the picture has, you know, their eyes closed,

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a little red light will pop up on your screen and that is blink detection.

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So those are just some added features now that, you know,

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makes this digital camera definitely, you know, top of the line quality

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when it comes to, you know, having the best and the newest features.

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Alright, so let's get out of here. You can do that, you can just go back and hit Menu.

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OK, so we're at a main screen. And if you go to Playback,

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now, this is my favorite part of the camera.

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So, I know you guys have seen this feature on iPhones,

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you basically shake the camera, like so, and the camera flips to the next picture.

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So we'll keep on doing it, so you can see.

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Cool. And then look, you can tilt it, and the picture will switch from

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horizontal to vertical. And go back.

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And then shake it some more. Look at that, that's cool.

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Just like the iPhone, but now your Cannon has the same technology.

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It's pretty awesome, if you ask me.

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It's called Active Display Playback. That's the official name that Cannon gave it.

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