Body material | Magnesium alloy |
Sensor | • 22.5 x 15.0 mm CMOS sensor |
• RGB Color Filter Array |
• Built-in fixed low-pass filter with revised IR cut filter |
• 8.5 million total pixels |
• 8.2 million effective pixels |
• 3:2 aspect ratio |
Image processor | DIGIC II |
Image sizes | • 3504 x 2336 (8.2 MP) |
• 2544 x 1696 (4.3 MP) |
• 1728 x 1152 (2.0 MP) |
File formats | • RAW |
• JPEG (EXIF 2.21) - Fine / Normal |
• RAW + JPEG (separate files) |
Color space | • sRGB |
• Adobe RGB |
Lenses | • Canon EF / EF-S lens mount |
• 1.6x field of view crop |
Focusing | • 9-point TTL |
• CMOS sensor |
• AF working range: -0.5 - 18 EV (at 20°C, ISO 100) |
Focus modes | • AI Focus AF |
• One shot AF |
• AI Servo AF |
• Manual focus |
AF point selection | • Auto |
• Manual |
• Home position |
AF assist | • Stroboscopic flash |
• 4.0 m range (at center) |
Metering | • TTL 35 zone SPC |
• Metering range: EV 1.0 - 20 EV (at 20°C, ISO 100, 50 mm F1.4) |
Metering modes | • Evaluative 35 zone |
• Partial (9% at center) |
• Center-weighted average |
• Metering range: 1 - 20 EV (at 20°C, ISO 100) |
AE lock | • Auto: One Shot AF with evaluative metering |
• Manual: AE lock button |
AE bracketing | • +/- 2.0 EV |
• 0.3 or 0.5 EV increments |
Exposure compen. | • +/-2.0 EV |
• 0.3 or 0.5 EV increments |
Sensitivity | • Auto (100, 200 or 400) |
• ISO 100 |
• ISO 200 |
• ISO 400 |
• ISO 800 |
• ISO 1600 |
• ISO 3200 (Enhanced H) |
Shutter | • Focal-plane shutter |
• 30 - 1/8000 sec |
• 0.3 or 0.5 EV increments |
• Flash X-Sync: 1/250 sec |
• Bulb |
Aperture values | • F1.0 - F91 |
• 0.3 or 0.5 EV increments |
• Actual aperture range depends on lens used |
White balance | • Auto (3000 - 7000 K) |
• Daylight (5200 K) |
• Shade (7000 K) |
• Cloudy (6000 K) |
• Tungsten (3200 K) |
• Fluorescent (4000 K) |
• Flash (6000 K) |
• Custom (2000 - 10000 K) |
• Kelvin (2800 - 10000 K in 100 K steps) |
WB bracketing | • +/-3 levels |
• 3 images |
• blue/amber or magenta/green bias |
WB shift | • Blue (-9) To Amber (+9) |
• Magenta (-9) to Green (+9) |
Processing params | • Parameter 1 (con +1, shp +1, sat +1, tone 0) |
• Parameter 2 (con 0, shp 0, sat 0, tone 0) |
• Set 1 (con, shp, sat, tone) |
• Set 2 (con, shp, sat, tone) |
• Set 3 (con, shp, sat, tone) |
• B&W (con, shp, filter, toning) |
Custom params | • Contrast (+/-2) |
(Set 1 - 3) | • Sharpness (+/-2) |
| • Saturation (+/-2) |
| • Color tone (+/-2) |
Viewfinder | • Eye-level pentaprism |
• 95% frame coverage |
• Magnification: 0.9x (-1 diopter with 50 mm lens at infinity) |
• Eyepoint: 20 mm |
• Dioptric adjustment: -3.0 to +1.0 diopter |
• Precision matte screen |
Viewfinder info | • AF points |
• Focus confirmation light |
• Shutter speed |
• Aperture |
• Manual exposure |
• AE Lock |
• Exposure compensation amount |
• AEB level |
• Partial metering area |
• Flash ready |
• Red-eye reduction lamp on |
• High-speed sync |
• FE Lock |
• Flash compensation amount |
• Warnings |
• Maximum burst for continuous shooting |
• Buffer space |
LCD monitor | • 1.8" TFT LCD |
• 118,000 pixels |
• 5 brightness levels |
• 10x zoom playback |
• Coverage 100% (for JPEG images), centre 1% or 4% for Live View |
Record review | • Off |
• On (histogram via INFO button) |
• 2 / 4 / 8 sec / Hold |
Flash | • Auto pop-up E-TTL II auto flash |
• FOV coverage up to 17 mm (27 mm equiv.) |
• Guide number approx 13 |
• Flash compensation +/-2.0 EV in 0.3 or 0.5 EV increments |
• X-Sync: 1/250 sec |
External flash | • E-TTL II auto flash with EX-series Speedlites |
• Wireless multi-flash support |
• PC Sync |
Shooting modes | • Auto |
• Program AE (P) |
• Shutter priority AE (Tv) |
• Aperture priority AE (Av) |
• Manual (M) |
• Auto depth-of-field |
• Portrait |
• Landscape |
• Close-up |
• Sports |
• Night portrait |
• Flash off |
Drive modes | • Single |
• Continuous: 5 fps up to 23 frames |
• Self-timer: 10 secs |
Direct printing | • Canon Card Photo Printers |
• Canon Bubble Jet Printers with direct print function |
• PictBridge |
Other features | • Orientation sensor |
• Automatically writes FAT16/FAT32 depending on capacity |
• LCD panel illumination |
Auto rotation | • On (playback uses orientation data in file header) |
• Off |
Playback mode | • Single image |
• Single image with info (inc. histogram) |
• Magnified view (1.5 - 10x in 15 steps, browsable) |
• 9 image index |
• Auto play |
• Image rotation |
• Jump |
Custom functions | 18 custom functions with 50 settings |
Menu languages | • English |
• French |
• German |
• Spanish |
• Italian |
• Dutch |
• Swedish |
• Norwegian |
• Danish |
• Finnish |
• Chinese |
• Japanese |
Firmware | User upgradable |
Portrait grip | Via BP-E2 battery grip (option) |
Connectivity | • USB 2.0 Hi-Speed |
• Video out |
• N3 type wired remote control |
• PC Sync flash terminal |
Storage | • Compact Flash Type I or II |
• Microdrive supported |
• FAT 12/16 and FAT 32 support |
• No CF card supplied |
Power | • Lithium-Ion BP-511A rechargeable battery (supplied & charger) |
• Supports BP-511 / BP-511A / BP-512 / BP-514 |
• CR2016 Lithium battery (date/time backup) |
• Optional AC adapter |
Dimensions | 144 x 106 x 72 mm (5.6 x 4.2 x 2.8 in) |
Weight (no batt) | 685 g (1.5 lb) |
Weight (inc. batt) | 770 g (1.7 lb) |