Shoot Your Way with this Easy, Affordable New Camera.
Sleekly redesigned in classic Black or Silver, the new PowerShot A1200 digital camera is all about capturing your memories your way. An Optical Viewfinder gives you an easy, familiar alternative to composing shots with an LCD screen. Smart AUTO takes care of all the details while you focus on getting the shot you want, by intelligently selecting the proper settings for the camera based on 32 predefined shooting situations. And now you can preserve your memories exactly the way you see them in incredibly true-to-life 720p HD. With 12.0 Megapixels, you'll be able to blow up your shots without losing a single detail, and the 4x Wide-Angle (28mm) Optical Zoom gets you close to the action quickly. The camera uses AA batteries, so you'll have power anytime, anywhere. New Discreet Mode lets you shoot where you never could before, by disabling sound, flash and AF beam. Looking to put a little artistry in your photography? New Creative Filters mode makes it easy with appealing options like Fisheye Effect, Miniature Effect, Monochrome and more.
It's Your Choice: LCD or Optical Viewfinder.
The PowerShot A1200 digital camera gives you a choice that's getting increasingly hard to find on digital cameras today. It's equipped with an Optical Viewfinder in addition to the LCD screen. Many photographers prefer this classic, familiar option that lets you simply hold the camera to your eye and shoot.
The camera's big, bright LCD screen gives you a wealth of important information about the shot. However, using it to compose and focus requires that you hold the camera away from your body. Many people do this with one hand, arms away from the body, effectively creating camera shake that can distort a shot. Using the Optical Viewfinder helps ensure that the camera is held steady.
The great thing is that from shot to shot, whether you use the Optical Viewfinder or LCD screen is your choice.
Everything's Easy.
Just set the Canon PowerShot A2200 digital camera to Smart AUTO and you're ready for maximum enjoyment from your picture-taking every time. It's a relaxing and satisfying way to shoot because you can completely concentrate on your subject knowing that the camera has the technical details covered. Advanced Canon technology intelligently analyzes your situation and shooting conditions. Then it automatically selects an appropriate setting from 32 specially defined settings. So whether you're photographing flowers, a captivating sunset, or your friends at the park, you can be confident that you're getting dramatic, memorable images.
Smart AUTO: The camera automatically selects the best shooting settings for optimal quality based on subjects and environmental factors to provide point-and-shoot simplicity.
P Program: Access advanced exposure compensation features while shooting mostly automatically.
Live View Control: Enables Brightness, Color, and Tone adjustments to your images using easy-to-understand controls.
Easy: Keep the image quality as high as possible for fail-proof images.
Blur Reduction: Boosts sensitivity to enable faster shutter speeds, reducing the effects of camera shake and subject movement.
Portrait: The camera sets a large aperture, focusing the subject and artistically blurring the background to make your subject "pop."
Landscape: For front to back sharpness, the camera sets a small aperture.
Kids & Pets: Reduced focusing time freezes fast-moving subjects, so you won't miss those special shots.
Smart Shutter: The camera automatically takes the photo when people smile, wink, or get into frame.
Low Light: For high quality image capture in an amazing range of dimly-lit situations.
Beach: Get clear shots of people at a sunny beach without darkened faces.
Foliage: Capture brilliant shots of autumn foliage, greenery and blossoms.
Snow: Shoot clear snow scenes without darkened subjects or an unnatural bluish tint.
Fireworks: Grab brilliant images of skyrocketing fireworks.
Long Shutter: Use to blur moving subjects for artistic effect, ideal for urban night photography.
Creative Filters: The Creative Filters mode dial setting provides easy access to special filter effect and scene modes.
Fisheye Effect: Add a classic photo distortion without a fisheye lens.
Miniature Effect: Give images a miniature look with an effect that emphasizes perspective by blurring the top and bottom of the image.
Toy Camera Effect: Simulates photos taken with "toy" or pinhole cameras, darkening the image at the edges to create a vignette effect.
Monochrome: Choose from three single-tone effects: Black-and-White, Sepia, or Blue.
Super Vivid: Super Vivid intensifies existing hues, saturating the scene with bright colors.
Poster Effect: Poster Effect combines several similar shades into one color, turning subtle gradations into eye-catching, scene-popping contrasts.
In Still Images or 720p HD Video, Every Detail is Beautifully Preserved
PowerShot A2200 digital camera puts you in charge when it comes to saving your memories. Canon technology lets you capture beautiful still images no matter what your level of photographic experience. Portraits of people posing or in motion, outdoor shots in various weather situations, nighttime shooting and more: the camera handles them all with ease when you shoot in Smart AUTO. High megapixel counts let you blow up and crop your still images just as you please, with no loss in resolution or quality.
Want to capture the good times in motion? Canon's 720p HD video gives your memories the quality they deserve. If you've never shot video in high definition before, you'll be amazed at the difference it makes. 720p HD delivers stunning realism, capturing every detail with a level of clarity that, in playback, will bring you right back into the moment. Easy high definition videos from a compact still camera - now that's value!
Loaded with Features, Packed with Value.
With the PowerShot A1200 digital camera, dramatic, personal pictures have never been easier to shoot and share. This 12.1 Megapixel camera lets you create impressive large photos of family and friends you'll be proud to display. The high-resolution images taken by the PowerShot A1200 can be enlarged up to 13" x 19". The PowerShot A1200 digital camera has a 4x wide Optical Zoom lens (35mm film equivalent: 28-112mm) that let you capture up-close and memorable images.
Get the Power Anywhere!
Conveniently, you don't need to worry about running out or recharging of batteries with the PowerShot A1200 digital camera. Since AA-size batteries can be purchased at any store, simply get new ones locally.
Shoot without Distractions.
How many times have you found yourself in a situation where you wanted to take a picture, but were reluctant (or simply not allowed) to disrupt the setting with noise or flash? New Discreet Mode makes picture-taking possible in museums, at performances, anywhere light and sound would not be welcome. Simply turn the mode dial to Discreet, and the camera's sound, flash and AF assist beam will be disabled - without changing any other settings. If the camera senses low light, ISO speed will be automatically raised to get the best possible shot. You can even switch to playback mode to review still images or video, and the camera will remain muted.
Photographic Artistry That's Easy for Anyone.
Creative Filters Mode gives you lots of fun, easy ways to make your photography more creative. The camera does all the work - you simply choose an effect and shoot!
Fisheye Effect imparts a fun, familiar curvilinear distortion to your image that's ideal for kids and pets. Miniature Effect plays with perspective, giving any shot the look of a world created in much smaller proportions - great for landscapes and city shots. When you shoot in Toy Camera, you get the vintage effect of a first-generation camera, ideal for giving portraits a slightly distorted, unevenly saturated look of a picture you'd come across in your attic. Monochrome lends a moody beauty to your photography, producing shots in Black & White, Sepia or Blue. Super Vivid saturates colors to heighten the intensity and impact of any shot. Poster Effect takes away transitions between objects in the frame to give your image the high-impact look of a hand-painted poster.
See the Image on a Big Screen.
The PowerShot A1200 digital camera has a large 2.7-inch LCD screen that gives you the big picture, whether you're shooting, reviewing or showing off your images. This high-resolution screen offers a crisp, clear and bright picture. It also features Night Display for easy viewing in low light.
What's in the Box
Specifications
Type
Compact digital still camera with built-in flash, 4x Optical & 4x Digital & 16x Combined Zoom
Type
12.1 Megapixel, 1/2.3-inch type Charge Coupled Device (CCD)
Total Pixels
Approx. 12.7 Megapixels
Effective Pixels
Approx. 12.1 Megapixels
Focal Length
5.0 (W) - 20.0 (T) mm (35mm film equivalent: 28-112mm)
Digital Zoom
4x
Focusing Range
1.2 in. (3cm) - infinity (W); 2.6 ft. (80cm) - infinity (T)
Macro: 1.2 in-1.6 ft. (3-50cm (W)
Autofocus System
TTL Autofocus
Optical Viewfinder
Available
LCD Monitor
2.7-inch TFT color wide viewing angle LCD
LCD Pixels
Approx. 230,000 dots
LCD Coverage
Approx. 100%
Maximum Aperture
f/2.8 (W) - f/5.9 (T)
Shutter Speed
1 - 1/1600 sec.
15 - 1/1600 sec. (Total shutter speed range)
Sensitivity
Auto, ISO 80/100/200/400/800/1600
Light Metering Method
Evaluative*, Center-weighted average, Spot**
* Control to incorporate facial brightness in Face Detection AF
** Metering frame is fixed to the center
Exposure Control Method
AE Lock
Exposure Compensation
+/-2 stops in 1/30-stops increments
White Balance Control
Auto*, Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Custom?
(*Facial color is evaluated in Face AiAF).
Built-in Flash
Auto, On, Off, FE lock, Slow Synchro
Flash Range
12 in.-13 ft. (W), 1.6-6.6 ft. (T)/(30cm-4.0m (W), 50cm-2.0m (T))
Recycling Time
12 sec. or less (battery voltage=3.0V)
Flash Exposure Compensation
N/A
Shooting Modes
P, Live View Control, Auto, Easy, SCN1, Creative Filters2, Discreet, Movie3
1Blur Reduction, Portrait, Landscape, Kids & Pets, Smart Shutter4 Low Light, Beach, Foliage, Snow, Fireworks, Long Shutter
2Fish-eye Effect, Miniature Effect, Toy Camera Effect, Monochrome, Super Vivid, Poster Effect
3Standard, Miniature Effect
4Smile, Wink Self-timer, Face Self-timer
Photo Effects
My Colors Off, Vivid, Neutral, Sepia, Black & White, Custom*?
* Adjustment of contrast, sharpness and saturation available.
Self Timer
Approx. 10-sec delay/approx. 2-sec. delay/custom*?*
Shooting start time (0-15 sec (in one-second increments), 20/25/30 sec.) and number of shots (1-10 (in one-second increments)) can be specified.
Wireless Control
N/A
Storage Media
SD/SDHC/SDXC Memory Card, MultiMediaCard, MMC Plus Card, HC MMC Plus Card
File Format
Design rule for camera file system, DPOF Version 1.1 complaint
JPEG Compression Mode
Still Image: Exif 2.3 (JPEG)
Movie: MOV (Image data: H.264; Audio data: Linear PCM (monaural))
Number of Recording Pixels
4000 x 3000 (Large), 2816 x 2112 (Medium 1), 1600 x 1200 (Medium 2), 640 x 480 (Small), 4000 x 2248 (Widescreen)
Image data
|
|
Large (L)
|
Medium 1 (M1)
|
Medium 2* (M2)
|
Small (S)
|
Widescreen (W)
|
| F
|
N
|
F
|
N
|
F
|
N
|
F
|
N
|
F
|
N
|
| File Size (KB)
|
3,084
|
1,474
|
1,620
|
780
|
558
|
278
|
150
|
84
|
2,311
|
1,105
|
| 4GB
|
1,231
|
2,514
|
2,320
|
4,641
|
6,352
|
12,069
|
20,116
|
30,174
|
1,630
|
3,352
|
| 16GB
|
5,042
|
10,295
|
9,503
|
19,007
|
26,010
|
49,420
|
82,367
|
123,550
|
6,677
|
13,727
|
* When in Blur Reduction or Low Light.
Movie data
|
|
Standard
|
Miniature Effect
|
| HD: 1280 x 720
|
640 x 480
|
320 x 240
|
HD: 1280 x 720
|
VGA: 640 x 480
|
| 24 fps**
|
30 fps***
|
30 fps***
|
5x
|
10x
|
20x
|
5x
|
10x
|
20x
|
| 6 fps
|
3 fps
|
1.5 fps
|
6 fps
|
3 fps
|
1.5 fps
|
| Video Size (KB/sec.)
|
2,345
|
1,240
|
319
|
573
|
287
|
143
|
246
|
123
|
61
|
| 4GB
|
26 min.
48 sec.
|
50 min.
17 sec.
|
3 hr. 2 min.
52 sec.
|
1 hr. 45 min.
52 sec.
|
3 hr. 21 min.
9 sec.
|
5 hr. 35 min.
16 sec.
|
3 hr. 43 min.
30 sec.
|
6 hr. 42 min.
20 sec.
|
11 hr. 10 min.
33 sec.
|
| 16GB
|
1 hr. 49 min.
48 sec.
|
3 hr. 25 min.
54 sec.
|
12 hr. 28 min.
47 sec.
|
7 hr. 13 min.
30 sec.
|
13 hr. 43 min.
40 sec.
|
22 hr. 52 min.
47 sec.
|
15 hr. 15 min.
11 sec.
|
27 hr. 27min.
20 sec.
|
45 hr. 45 min.
35 sec.
|
** Actual frame rate is 23.976 fps.
*** Actual frame rate is 29.97 fps.
Playback Modes File
- Easy, Auto Rotate (Automatic vertical/horizontal detection), Resume Playback, Image Advance (Operation Tools, Transition effects, Scroll Display), Rotate, Jump, Slide Show (Playback Interval, Repeat, Effect, Playlist)
- Still Images: Single, Index, Magnification, Resize, i-Contrast, Focus Check, Histogram, Overexposure Warning, Red-Eye Correction
- Movies: Normal Playback*, slow motion**, pause, first frame, last frame, next frame, previous frame, fast forward, fast rewind
* Audio settings available in 5 levels.
** 5 levels (including normal playback), sound not available.
Erase Modes
Still Image: single image, all images
Video: any video file
Computer Interface
USB 2.0 Hi-Speed (mini-B jack)
Video Out
NTSC/PAL
Audio Out
Monaural
Other
Memory card slot; direct connection to Canon SELPHY Compact Photo Printers, PIXMA Inkjet Photo Printers and PictBridge-compatible printers via camera's USB 2.0 Hi-Speed cable
Power Supply
1. 2 AA batteries (Alkaline NiMH batteries NB-3AH x2)
2. Compact Power Adapter CA-PS800 (Used together with the DC Coupler DR-DC10) Approx. 200 shots Alkaline batteries: Approx. 8 hours
AA NiMH batteries: Approx. 11 hours
Power Source
1. 2 AA batteries (Alkaline NiMH batteries NB-3AH x2)
2. Compact Power Adapter CA-PS800 (Used together with the DC Coupler DR-DC10)
Shooting Capacity
Approx. 200 shots
Playback Time
Alkaline batteries: Approx. 8 hours
AA NiMH batteries: Approx. 11 hours
Operating Temperature
32-104°F/0-40°C
Operating Humidity
10-90%
Dimensions (W x H x D)
3.84 x 2.46 x 1.21 in. / 97.5 x 62.5 x 30.7mm
Weight
Approx. 6.53 oz./185 g (including the battery and memory card)
Approx. 4.83 oz. / 137g (camera body only)
Note: 27 display languages provided (English, German, French, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Thai, Arabic, Romanian, Ukrainian, Farsi and Hindi).
All data are based on Canon's Standard Test Method. Subject to change without notice.