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PowerShot SD30 Body, Lithium Battery Pack NB-4L, Camera Station CS-DC1, Compact Power Adapter CA-DC20, MultiMediaCard MMC-16M, Wrist Strap WS-900, Wireless Controller WL-DC200, Digital Camera Solution CD-ROM, USB Interface Cable IFC-400PCU, Audio/Video Cable AVC-DC300, Soft Case (Case color depends on camera color) At 3.78 (W) x 1.78 (H) x 0.94 (D) inches and about 4 ounces, the Powershot SD30 ELPH digital-camera is designed to be toted from place to place. It makes sense. This little camera is perfect for taking pictures at any opportunity. With 5 megapixel still image (up to 2,592 x 1,944) and VGA (640x480) movie resolution, this little camera stands tall among all the big ones. The designers at Canon figured that if you took the camera everywhere then it should also be stylish so they added a haute couture appearance. Transfer images to a PC or Macintosh (software and USB cable included). It's also PictBridge for printing pix without a computer. So enjoy taking pictures where ever you go and think about those happy times ahead as you look back at all you've explored and enjoyed. SecureDigital SD and MMC memory slot for storing all images (though 16MB is included, we suggest purchasing an optional 256MB (or larger) SD card for more practical use) PictBridge Built-in Multimode Automatic Electronic-Flash Selectable Shooting Modes - Auto; Manual, Portrait, Landscape, Night Snapshot, Special Scene (Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Underwater, Indoor, Kids & Pets), Macro, My Colors, Stitch Assist, Movie Image Compression - Still Image - Exif 2.2 ( JPEG ); Movie - AVI (Image - Motion JPEG; Audio - WAVE (Monaural)) Direct connection to Canon CP, SELPHY, PIXMA Photo Printers Shooting Capacity Still Image - approx. 160 shots / Playback Time up to 240 minutes with fully charged NB4L battery per CIPA 22 Language Menu Display
Customer Reviews:
Amazing!.......2007-08-12
I do love this camera. I bought it back in February from a store, and it's totally worth getting. It's easy to carry around, and it looks sleek. I took it to a big formal dinner and it just looked great with me. I love how small the camera is, but the quality of the pictures are amazing. I absolutely love the quality. It takes AMAZING in-action photos. I highly recommend it to anyone who loves taking digital pictures.
CANON Powershot SD30.......2007-05-13
This camera works great for me, it takes great pictures! The design is excellent, the camera is very light weight and small so you can carry it with you everywhere.
Cool Package, Crisp Pictures.......2007-04-02
Love the camera though still trying to work on the details of using color and various settings. The ease of basic use is wonderful. The pictures are excellent but what I like best is the compact and stylist package. Having paid only $180 at Circuit City made the investment bearable.
Excellent...too much..........2007-03-13
I don't have words for this item...it's very very...
I'm taking the best pictures that i never imagine
Great camera if you don't like taking pictures!.......2007-03-06
Sure my Canon sd-30 is super cute and I get lots of compliments on how small and sexy it is, but heaven forbid you want to take pictures with it!!
This camera cannot take pictures in low light AT ALL! Every picture I've taken at parties has been out of focus, which adds up to a lot of hazy photos of great memories. I took it back to the camera shop and the guy said I had the setting right but "yeah, they don't work well in low light." Well if I needed a bright sunny day for every shot I could make a pinhole camera out of a cardboard box!
The pictures it takes in daylight are nice. But anyone who wants a tiny little camera like this is planning on putting it in their pocket and taking it to parties!
I got the Sony Cybershot 10.1 and it takes GREAT pictures in low light. Later, Canon.
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Meade Deep Sky Imager Pro CCD Camera and Software Package.
Manufacturer: Meade
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"Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing" with CD ROM, 2nd Edition, Hardcover Book by Berry & Burnell
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Photoshop Astronomy
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Meade DC Powered Fan Accessory for all Deep Sky Imager (DSI) Cameras.
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Meade Series 4000 f/6.3 Focal Reducer/Field Flattener (4-element/41mm dia.) for CCD, Photographic, & Visual Applications.
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Meade #644 Flip-Mirror System (1.25") with Ultra-High Transmission Coatings.
Product Features:
- Automatic and manual exposure - Auto and manual exposure settings will optimize the exposure automatically, or let you set it yourself.
- Automatic align and stack - The software can automatically align and stack a series of images, using state-of-the-art techniques, to provide an extremely low noise, highly detailed single composite image.
- Color saturation and balance - The AutoStar Suite includes the tools to adjust color saturation and balance, eliminating the need to use Photoshop or other aftermarket tools to accomplish this pre-publication step.
- Stretch options - Auto-stretch automatically brings out dim objects in short exposures. It optimizes the contrast of objects, with adjustable contrast settings.
- Automatic dark subtraction - Dark frames are automatically stacked and averaged, then subtracted, eliminating hot or cold pixels and giving you a clean final image. "Fix Cold Pixels" removes "holes" in images resulting from saturated dark pixels during long exposures. "Fix Hot Pixels" removes cosmic ray strikes and noise pixels f
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The Deep Sky Imager Pro (DSI Pro) is a high-performance, easy-to-use black and white (monochrome) electronic camera and software package that allows every astronomer to shoot and process stunning images of galaxies, nebulas, star clusters, and planets their first night out. Adding an optional color filter set allows highly detailed tri-color imaging, as well. While the active array of the imaging sensor measures 510 x 492 pixels in size, the NASA-developed Drizzle technology included in the camera s software displays a 640 x 480 pixel image on your computer screen, with the true resolution of a 640 x 480 camera (not merely a stretched version of the 510 x 492 array). The Drizzle technology can actually produce a full resolution 2560 x 1920 pixel image from the 510 x 492 imaging sensor, as explained below. The Drizzle program also corrects field rotation, among other advanced features, eliminating the need to polar align the telescope. The DSI Pro camera itself works with any telescope, but the Drizzle software works only with an AutoStar-controlled Meade telescope. The DSI Pro is the first commercially available CCD camera to include Drizzle Technology in its software. Multiple camera control - The AutoStar Suite supplied with the DSI Pro supports multiple Deep Sky Imagers and one LPI. This lets you control one imager that is autoguiding through a photoguide scope, for example, while a second Deep Sky Imager simultaneously records images at pri
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- Think twice before your buy
- Nice Deep Sky Imager could have better instructions
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Meade Deep Sky Imager Pro CCD Camera & Software Package with RGB Color Filter Set.
Manufacturer: Meade
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"Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing" with CD ROM, 2nd Edition, Hardcover Book by Berry & Burnell
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Photoshop Astronomy
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Meade DC Powered Fan Accessory for all Deep Sky Imager (DSI) Cameras.
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Meade Series 4000 f/6.3 Focal Reducer/Field Flattener (4-element/41mm dia.) for CCD, Photographic, & Visual Applications.
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Meade #644 Flip-Mirror System (1.25") with Ultra-High Transmission Coatings.
Product Features:
- Automatic and manual exposure - Auto and manual exposure settings will optimize the exposure automatically, or let you set it yourself.
- Automatic align and stack - The software can automatically align and stack a series of images, using state-of-the-art techniques, to provide an extremely low noise, highly detailed single composite image.
- Color saturation and balance - The AutoStar Suite includes the tools to adjust color saturation and balance, eliminating the need to use Photoshop or other aftermarket tools to accomplish this pre-publication step.
- Stretch options - Auto-stretch automatically brings out dim objects in short exposures. It optimizes the contrast of objects, with adjustable contrast settings.
- Automatic dark subtraction - Dark frames are automatically stacked and averaged, then subtracted, eliminating hot or cold pixels and giving you a clean final image. "Fix Cold Pixels" removes "holes" in images resulting from saturated dark pixels during long exposures. "Fix Hot Pixels" removes cosmic ray strikes and noise pixels f
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Product Description
The Deep Sky Imager Pro (DSI Pro) is a high-performance, easy-to-use black and white (monochrome) electronic camera and software package that allows every astronomer to shoot and process stunning images of galaxies, nebulas, star clusters, and planets their first night out. Adding an optional color filter set allows highly detailed tri-color imaging, as well. While the active array of the imaging sensor measures 510 x 492 pixels in size, the NASA-developed Drizzle technology included in the camera 's software displays a 640 x 480 pixel image on your computer screen, with the true resolution of a 640 x 480 camera (not merely a stretched version of the 510 x 492 array). The Drizzle technology can actually produce a full resolution 2560 x 1920 pixel image from the 510 x 492 imaging sensor, as explained below. The Drizzle program also corrects field rotation, among other advanced features, eliminating the need to polar align the telescope. The DSI Pro camera itself works with any telescope, but the Drizzle software works only with an AutoStar-controlled Meade telescope. The DSI Pro is the first commercially available CCD camera to include Drizzle Technology in its software. Multiple camera control - The AutoStar Suite supplied with the DSI Pro supports multiple Deep Sky Imagers and one LPI. This lets you control one imager that is autoguiding through a photoguide scope, for example, while a second Deep Sky Imager simultaneously records images at pr
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Think twice before your buy.......2007-12-23
THIS REVIEW APPLIES TO THE DEEP SKY IMAGER. . .THE ORIGINAL VERSION.
I want to be very clear. The reason this review applies to Meade's Original DSI is because I've had so many problems with it, I would NEVER buy another DSI from Meade. The customer support from Meade is nearly non-existent. Go to their website and TRY to find an e-mail address for customer support: you'll find an address, a phone number--but no where to e-mail questions or upload images or problems.
Fix after Fix after software fix; you'll see if you go to their website and find the "support" postings. The problems, which it has taken me, LITERALLY, two years to figure out:
a. YOU will MOST likely NOT be able to image on your first night out.
b. The software instruction manual is bare-bones. It does little to help an amateur take the first photos. . .
c. The infra-red filter attaches to the nose-piece of the imager--without rubber bumpers. I no sooner had opened my new DSI, but I broke the glass IR filter. . .BANG! Broken filter. . .new instrument out of the box!
d. This imager is NOT backwards compatible with USB 1.0 or 1.1. YOU MUST have USB 2.0 ports on your computer
e. IF you buy a USB card, for your laptop, you'd better buy one that you can power with a power-adapter. . .otherwise your motherboard on your computer will NOT be able to provide enough power to power the USB and the data coming to it from the camera. (This took me a year of trial and error to learn)
f. You MUST have a computer with at least a Pentium 2.0 gigahertz processor.
g. I would recommend at least 1 or 2 GB of Ram, too.
About one month ago, I sent screen shots (by mail--because they don't have an e-mail address) to Meade's "technical" customer support. It contained screen shots, photo's of my computer set-up, etc. To date, I've heard zip.
Buy a real CCD camera: buy one from the Santa Barbara Instruments Group (SBIG). . .and leave Meade alone. In my experience, including their telescopes, most of their products are over-priced, under supported, and have significant quality defects. This is a company that needs a severe internal overhall. You have choices: Celesteron, Takahashi, Astrozap, etc. Meade is NOT the company they advertise THEMSELVES to be. Go to Google and type in "Meade DSI Reviews" and find out for yourself.
Nice Deep Sky Imager could have better instructions.......2006-11-10
Having experience in astrophotography for only a very short time, I thought I would try the Meade DSI Pro, I have used a Solar System Imager on a few occasions and found it fairly easy to use, I expected the DSI Pro would be a bit more of a learning curve. For starters the DSI Pro is everything Meade says it is, I have put together some very nice images that have impressed many people, not too bad for a rookie. Attaching the camera to your scope and computer is very easy, obtaining focus and getting your image is a little more complicated, and all the rest is extremely difficult to figure out on your own or trying to find help on the web. This nice and powerful imager could really use a completely detailed instruction manual. It comes with a quick set up version manual, RGB filter and filter slide set, Autostar Suite software, and USB 2.0 connection cable. The software has an instruction manual on it, but again leaves alot to be desired, no examples of when and where to use long or short exposures, or any of the settings for that matter, the software also has a image processor, but again almost no helpful instructions, I have yet to use the RGB filter or slide because aside from explaining how to put the filters into the slide, there are absolutely no instructions or examples on how to use this feature, all my colors have been added in Photoshop. I take it that Meade assumes that everyone using this fine imager has had experience using another make or model. I am by no means a tech geek, but I have a home recording studio with digital recorders, sequencers and midi mapping that all have complete instruction manuals that explain procedures and functions in great detail. I have had to search the web for most of the info on the many questions I have had for setting exposure time to using the processing software, and have yet to find some info on how to use the RGB filters and combine them. I have about 20 hours into this on actual photography and processing and 2 months of searching for or trying to figure out certain procedures or functions, that to me is not a good ratio. I would have given this item a 5 star rating, but without detailed explanations in a instruction manual, DVD, or website I can only justify 4 stars, for the camera itself is very powerful and amazing, you really can get images like a pro and amaze yourself and others. Overall the Meade DSI Pro is a fantastic deep sky camera and I would reccomend it to anybody, it just suffers from the lack of instructions, and that leaves alot to be desired, hopefully Meade will put out a tutorial DVD and include it in future packages.
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