Canon PowerShot A4000 IS

Canon PowerShot A4000 IS Specifications

Dimension

• Width
  95.3
• Height
  56.3
• Length
  24.3
• Weight
  130 g (Camera Body Only), 145 g (with Battery and Memory Card)

Zoom

• Optical Zoom
  8X
• Digital Zoom
  4x

Pixels

• Mega Pixel
  16.0 Megapixels

Lens

• Auto Focus
  TTL
• Color Filter
  Primary (RGB) Color Filter
• Focal Length
  5.0 (W) - 40.0 (T) mm (35 mm Equivalent to 28 (W) - 224 (T) mm)

LCD

• LCD Size
  3 inch

Flash

• Built in Flash
  Yes
• External Flash
  YES
• Flash Modes
  Auto, On, Slow Sync, Off
• Flash Range
  50 cm - 3.0 m (W), 1.0 - 2.0 m (T)

Image

• Audio Format
  Linear PCM (2 Channel Monaural)
• Image Format
  JPEG, EXIF 2.3, DCF, DPOF 1.1
• Video Format
  MOV, H.264

Interface

• USB Cable
  Hi-speed USB
• Audio Video Interface
  Analog Video Output (NTSC, PAL)
• Microphone
  Mono

Memory

• Upgradeable Memory
  YES

Sensor

• Sensor Size
  1/2.3 inch
• Sensor Type
  CCD

Software

• Operating System
  Windows 7 SP1, Windows Vista SP2, Windows XP SP3, MAC OS X 10.6, MAC OS X 10.7

Shutter Speed

• Maximum Shutter Speed
  1 / 2000 sec
• Minimum Shutter Speed
  15 sec

Battery

• Power Supply
  Power Adapter CA-DC 10 (Included with AC Adapter Kit ACK-DC90)
• Battery Type
  NB-11L Li-ion Rechargeable Battery

Additional Features

• Face Detection
  YES
• PicBridge
  YES
• White Balancing
  Auto, Day Light, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Custom
• Image Stabilizer
  Lens-shift
• Delete Function
  YES
• Image Display Resolution
  230,000 dots
• Macro Mode
  Yes, 1 - 50 cm
• Video Display Resolution
  1280 x 720, 25 fps
• Type
  TFT Colour (Wide Viewing Angle)
• Continuous Shots
  Yes, 0.8 fps (P Mode), 2.8 fps (Low Light Mode)
• Metering
  Evaluative, Center Weighted Average, Spot
• Shooting Modes
  Smart Auto (32 Scenes Detected), Program
• Picture Angle
  28 mm Wide-angle
• Self Timer
  Yes, 2 and 10 sec
• Red Eye Reduction
  YES
• ISO Rating
  Auto, ISO 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600

Canon PowerShot A4000 IS Review

Canon PowerShot A4000 IS is yet another marvel of the Canon A series that comes with an enormous power of 16 megapixel image sensor with a new 8x optical zoom lens. Now capture the lively exciting colored photographers without worrying about whether you are a beginner or a professional. This model is far too charming and comes in five attractive colors of red, pink, silver, black and blue. Its slightly convex front face, protruding zoom lens and a comparatively smaller navigation pad is proud to have in hand. It has been designed specifically keeping in concern the demands of fashion conscious and feature seeking cluster. The slim, light weight metal body camera owns a 3 inch wide LCD screen with 5 brightness adjustment levels and effective pixels of about 230k dots. The menu organization of this model is favorable to all type of users. The function menu gives a quick access to all the desirable and most frequently used options like that of picture mode, ISO, white balance, self timer, resolution etc. To have an in depth access to core options, there is a main menu for settings such as red eye correction, i-contrast, AF framing etc. Apart from these, there are two more tabs and one drive mode to hold other image editing information. So, one can easily scramble through varying light and dark backgrounds, noisy or continuous performances sliding this camera into the pocket.

To work with continuous shooting modes, it has a little low speeds of just 0.7fps, which seems lesser than the other available options. The flash range varies from 1m to 2m and offers different modes of auto, on, slow synchro, etc. The varied modes of shooting, continuous, auto and digital gives effects of vivid, poster, snow, fireworks, miniature, portrait and many more. These images are perfectly dramatized by these multi creative options. The DIGIC 4 imaging processor with standard face AiAF and autofocus, enhance the liveliness of the picture clicked bringing sharp contrast and no noise at low ISO. The mid budget Canon PowerShot A4000 IS is a smart choice but works at fairly slow speeds. It becomes tricky to handle the large requirement of power on time along with a low battery life of around 175 shots or 240min playback. Especially for the families going on vacations, they can get this small elegantly designed camera easily slipped into their pockets. It is too friendly to be used and charmingly small yet good performance. Overall, though besides certain drawbacks, it’s a lovely option worthy of money giving strong competition to its other market prevalent rivals, for instance those of Nikon Coolpix S5100 and Fujifilm FinePix Z900EXR.