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Canon PowerShot S80

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Pros

  • sleek style and superb build quality
  • be stylish
  • compact and easy to use

Cons

  • a little noise is visible in the darker areas
  • slight blurring in the extreme corners of the frame at wide-angle
  • it makes for a pretty boring review

Key specs

  • CCD
  • 7.144x5.358 mm
  • 8 Mpx
  • 3264, 2448 px
  • 5.3
  • Continuous
  • 2.5 in
  • no

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Canon PowerShot S80 - Pros & Cons

Canon PowerShot S80

Pros

  • sleek style and superb build quality
  • be stylish
  • compact and easy to use
  • an outstanding performance
  • and another superb Canon camera
  • Performance
  • design and build quality
  • quick and easy to operate
  • Noise control is excellent at 50 and 100 ISO
  • and acceptable
  • S80 is loaded with other nice features

Cons

  • a little noise is visible in the darker areas
  • slight blurring in the extreme corners of the frame at wide-angle
  • it makes for a pretty boring review
  • flimsy door on the right side for the A/V out
  • lack inner firepower shows up
  • the LCD screen to be a bit lacking
  • The controller is also a bit unusual
  • slightly pared down from its original design following an
  • the sliding front cover and optical viewfinder
  • no high speed sprint shooting mode
  • Canon is only small in size

Canon PowerShot S80 - Technical Overview

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IconScreen size
2.5 in
Best:
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W710
Screen size: 6.7 in
IconEffective pixels
8 Mpx
Best:
Hasselblad H6D-100c
Effective pixels: 100 Mpx
IconMax resolution
3264 x 2448 px
Best:
Leica M11
Max resolution: 9528 x 6328 px

Canon PowerShot S80 - Full Specifications

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Sensor
Sensor typeCCD
Sensor size0.28 in
Sensor photo detectors8.0 Mpx
Effective pixels8.0 Mpx
Image ratio w:h4:3
Max resolution3264 x 2448 px
Other resolutions
  • 2592x1944
  • 2048x1536
  • 1600x1200
  • 640x480
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Optics and focus
Optical zoom3.2 x
Digital zoom4.0 x
Minimum aperture2.8
Maximum aperture5.3
Focal length equiv28 - 100
Focus adjustmentAuto
AutofocusContinuous
Auto Focus (AF) lockyes
Manual focusyes
Normal focus range19.69 in
Macro focus range1.57 in
Number of focus points9
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Photography features
Camera shutter typeMechanical
Minimum shutter speed15.0 s
Maximum shutter speed1.0 s
Shutter priorityyes
Aperture priorityyes
Exposure compensation plus2
Exposure compensation minus-2
Expousure compensation steps1/3
Self-timer delay2.0 s
Built-in flashyes
Flash range4.2
Flash modesRedeye Reduction
External flashno
Continuous drive1.8 fps
Scene modes
  • Beach
  • Fireworks
  • Night
  • party
  • Portrait
  • Underwater
  • Landscape
Self-timeryes
Self-timer options
  • 2
  • 10
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Audio features
Built-in microphoneyes
Microphone typeMono
Voice recordingyes
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Dimensions
Weight7.94 oz
Width4.09 in
Height1.53 in
Depth2.24 in
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Power
Battery technology
Lithium-Ion
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Other features
Timelapse recordingyes
Orientation sensoryes
Frameyes
Image editing modes
  • Resizing
  • Rotating
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Image
ISO
  • 50
  • 100
  • 200
  • 400
  • AUTO
Maximum image resolution3264 x 2448 px
White balance presets7
White balance modes
  • Auto
  • Cloudy
  • Daylight
  • Fluorescent
  • Tungsten
Custom white balanceyes
Photo effects
  • Black&White
  • Neutral
  • Sepia
  • Vivid
Image stabilization typeNo
Supported aspect ratios4:3
Uncompressed formatNo
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Screen and viewfinder
Screen size2.5 in
Screen technologyLCD
Screen dots115000
Touch screenno
Live viewyes
ViewfinderOptical
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Videography features
Maximum resolution640 x 480 px
Video recordingyes
Supported video file formatsAVI
Camera playback
  • Single image
  • Slide show
  • Thumbnails
Motion JPEG frame rate30.0 fps
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Design
Body typeCompact
Body materialMetal
Colour of product
  • Black
  • Black,Silver
Environmentally sealedno
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Storage
Internal storage32.0 mB
Compatible memory cards
  • MMC
  • SD
Maximum memory card size0.03 GB
Storage types
  • SD
  • MMC
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Connectivity
USB version2.0
PictBridgeyes

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Canon PowerShot S80 Canon - Editorial Reviews (34)

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Canon PowerShot S80 Canon PowerShot S90 Review
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DPReview
Published: 04.05.2010
Canon PowerShot S90 Review
3.8

It was way back in August 2005 that Canon launched the last in the line of its S-Series compact photographers' cameras, the S80. And though you can see traces of the S60/S70/S80's DNA in the S90 it is a very different beast to those cameras; the S90 is smaller, sleeker - and in many ways more sophisticated, but it's lost the optical viewfinder and the lack of anything to really get hold of will undoubtedly impact on handling.

Canon PowerShot S80 Canon S90 Review: It'll Never Leave My Pocket (Except When I'm Taking Pictures)
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Gizmodo
Published: 30.10.2009
Canon S90 Review: It'll Never Leave My Pocket (Except When I'm Taking Pictures)

My first real camera was a Canon S50. I loved it. Canon let the pro compact S line die a few years later. It's back with the S90, though the only thing that's the same is that it's still awesome.

Canon PowerShot S80 Canon PowerShot S90 digital camera
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Pocket-lint
Published: 17.11.2009
Canon PowerShot S90 digital camera
4.5

In the hand the S90 is an absolute delight, the Control Ring flirting with the playful side of photography, putting controls literally at your

Canon PowerShot S80 Canon PowerShot S80
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Trusted Reviews
Published: 15.11.2005
Canon PowerShot S80
4.0

The Canon S80 is one of the best compact digital cameras on the market, but you're going to have to dig deep to afford it.

Canon PowerShot S80 Canon PowerShot S80 Review | Digital Trends
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Digital Trends
Published: 03.01.2006
Canon PowerShot S80 Review | Digital Trends

The 8MP Canon PowerShot S80 is the latest iteration of the company's "Goldilocks" cameras. It's not a simple point-and-shoot digicam neither is it as complicated as a D-SLR.

Canon PowerShot S80 Canon PowerShot S80
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Photo Review
Published: 17.02.2012
Canon PowerShot S80
4.3

Features and functionality in a compact, well built, high resolution camera, although a few enthusiast functions are limited or absent.For a compact digicam, Canon's elegant PowerShot S80 provides lots of user-adjustable controls. Although not strictly shirt-pocketable, the S80 is slim enough to slip into a jacket pocket or purse and its retracting 3.6x zoom lens is well protected behind the sliding lens cover/on-off switch. Its sturdy metal body contains an 8-megapixel CCD sensor plus Canon's DiG!C II image processor and excellent ergonomics make the S80 a satisfying camera to use.

Canon PowerShot S80 Canon PowerShot S90 Review | Photography Blog
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photographyblog.com
Published: 10.11.2009
Canon PowerShot S90 Review | Photography Blog
4.5

The new Canon PowerShot S90 compact camera offers a lot of DSLR functionality in a pocketable format. Support for the RAW format, full range of manual shooting modes, and a fast f/2.0 lens should grab any keen photographer's attention, especially as the Canon S90 can easily slip inside a shirt pocket. This seemingly winning combination of size and features doesn't come cheap though - £449.00 / €519.00 / $429.99 is an awful lot to ask for what is after all still a camera with a tiny image sensor. Gavin Stoker sizes up the Canon PowerShot S90 in our latest expert review...

Canon PowerShot S80 Canon PowerShot S80 Review
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DPReview
Published: 08.11.2005
Canon PowerShot S80 Review

Just over a year after the launch of the 7 megapixel PowerShot S70 Canon revealed its replacement, the new S80, which boasts a slight redesign, an extra million pixels and a few new features - including the latest DIGIC II processor. The S80 is smaller and lighter than the S70 yet it packs a much larger (2.5") wide viewing angle LCD monitor, a control wheel / 4-way controller, XGA video capture (15 fps), USB 2.0 High-speed and SD/MMC storage. Some may, however, be a little disappointed to hear that RAW capture has been dropped.

Canon PowerShot S80 Canon PowerShot S80 Review
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DPReview
Published: 08.11.2005
Canon PowerShot S80 Review

Just over a year after the launch of the 7 megapixel PowerShot S70 Canon revealed its replacement, the new S80, which boasts a slight redesign, an extra million pixels and a few new features - including the latest DIGIC II processor. The S80 is smaller and lighter than the S70 yet it packs a much larger (2.5") wide viewing angle LCD monitor, a control wheel / 4-way controller, XGA video capture (15 fps), USB 2.0 High-speed and SD/MMC storage. Some may, however, be a little disappointed to hear that RAW capture has been dropped.

Canon PowerShot S80 Canon PowerShot S80
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Good Gear Guide
Canon PowerShot S80
4.0

Although it's quite bulky, the S80 offers an excellent list of features for a compact digital camera.

Canon PowerShot S80 Canon PowerShot S90 Review
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Photography Bay
Published: 16.02.2010
Canon PowerShot S90 Review

The Canon PowerShot S90 is a 10MP point and shoot camera, but it’s more than just another compact camera.  It symbolizes a return of the popular Sxx-series of cameras.  It boils down to a G11…

Canon PowerShot S80 Best compact cameras in 2020
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Tom's Guide
Published: 04.02.2020
Best compact cameras in 2020
4.5

Here are the best point-and-shoot cameras, super-zoom, travel, and instant cameras that kids and adults will love.

Canon PowerShot S80 Canon PowerShot S90 Review - Steve's Digicams
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Canon PowerShot S90 Review - Steve's Digicams

Review posted 12/10/2009Canon's PowerShot S90 is an ultra-compact digicam that is designed for the photo enthusiast who is looking for a pocketable camera to add to their ranks, which still offers a great deal of the exposure control they are accustomed to on their dSLR. This model is somewhat of a cross-breed

Canon PowerShot S80 Canon S90 Review
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Imaging Resource
Published: 15.10.2009
Canon S90 Review
4.0

Canon S90 review, find out how the S90 stacks up against the competition in our real-world review with in-depth image quality comparisons.

Canon PowerShot S80 Canon PowerShot S90 Review
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Digital Photography School
Published: 17.12.2009
Canon PowerShot S90 Review

A guest Review of the Canon PowerShot S90 by Patrick Dean from NeutralDay.com. The Canon PowerShot S90 takes the helm as the latest and greatest from the PowerShot “S” series of digital compact cameras, and does so with a bevy of photographer friendly specifications. Featuring a 10 megapixel sensor, DIGIC IV processing, and a fast […]