Full Features / Operation Ease - Canon PowerShot A30 Service Manual

2-2 Full Features / Operation ease

Color Effect Modes (Vivid color, Neutral color, Soft, Sepia and Black & White) are provided
The PowerShot A40/A30 includes the same color modes as the PowerShot G2 and PowerShot S40/S30, plus
an additional Soft mode, providing five modes available for selection.
Also, the mode is now selected by a special-purpose (Exposure Control, WB, Color Effect, Single Image
Erase) button instead of the mode dial, so color effects can be used in ways that were impossible before,
such as in photostitching or movies. Table 2-2 shows the contents and effects.
Photo Effect
Vivid color Emphasizes contrast and color intensity
Neutral color Reduces contrast and color intensity
Low sharpening Reduces edge's emphasis
Sepia Adds sepia toning to the color information
Black & White Sets the color gain to "0," producing a black & white image Produces a binary image with sharp contrast; used for text
Direct print function for dedicated printers (CP-10/CP-100)
The PowerShot A40/A30 includes the Direct Print function, which provides high quality prints by connecting the
camera via dedicated cable to Canon's
CP-10 Card Photo Printer or CP-100
Photo Printer, newly developed for
postcard-size prints.
All printing operations are performed
by the camera controls, including selection
of border/borderless and adjusting the
print area to match the image aspect ratio
when creating borderless credit-card-size
prints. The print area can be aligned
relative to three sides. Credit-card-size
printing capabilities include full-size label
prints or eight copies of the same image
on one sticker sheet.
The new image engine in the camera
provides the high-speed color processing
calculations for printing that are normally
performed by driver software in the PC.
Movie recording and playback with audio (selectable pixel size from QVGA and Q
(It is impossible for PS A30 to record audio)
The PowerShot A30/A40 can record movies in QVGA (320 × 240 pixels) and Q
formats at 20 frames/second (only the PS A40 records sound). Up to ten seconds recording is possible in
QVGA, and up to 30 seconds in Q
The focus, exposure, WB and zoom settings are set at the start of recording, and are used until finished record-
ing. While recording, the available time remaining is displayed on the LCD.
The AVI-format files recorded consist of Motion JPEG image data and monaural WAVE sound data.
* When the remaining capacity of the CF is less than the buffer memory capacity, recording can continue until
the time determined by the remaining capacity of the CF.
Description
Table 2-2 Contents and Effects of Color Effect Setting
Postcard size
2
VGA format.
Produces a vivid and sharply-defined image
Produces a subdued, plain image
Produces a mild image
Creates an old-fashioned appearance
Card size
L size
Fig. 2-1 Camera direct print
1-7
Effect
CP-10
Card size
CP-100
(Operatable by battery)
2
VGA )
2
VGA (160 × 120 pixels)