Product Description

The Sure Shot Z155 with a 37-155 4.2x zoom lens is very easy to operate. It features a large and extremely easy-to-view LCD panel on the back. There you also find the Best Shot Dial, which will ensure appropriate camera settings for any type of picture e.g. portrait, action shot or close-up. The Sure Shot Z155 can handle all light conditions from sunny to dark and when shooting night scenes, the slow-sync mode makes sure background illumination also gets captured. It incorporates a passive seven-point switching-type Artificial intelligence Automatic Focusing (AiAF) system, which allows the user to clearly view and sharply focus on the subject in a wide variety of conditions.The focusing and metering systems are linked to the zoom ensuring virtually the same focal range for both wide angle and telephoto shooting. The camera's viewfinder is also provided with a dioptric adjustment knob increasing the usability of the camera for users wearing glasses. The robust yet elegant metal casing with cool grip on the front emphasizes the high-class look and feel of the Sure Shot Z155.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64632 in Camera & Photo
• Brand: Canon
• Model: Z155
• Dimensions: 2.75" h x 5.10" w x 2.50" l, .78 pounds

Features

• Powerful 3.6x 38-155mm power zoom lens
• Canon's Best Shot Dial with its 7 programmed settings does all the thinking for you
• High-precision 3-point Smart Autofocus for sharp focus every time
• 1/1,200-second top shutter speed plus real-time release to capture action
• Built-in retractable flash

Amazon.com Product Description
The elegant, easy-to-operate Canon Sure Shot Z155 makes shooting all of life's precious moments simple. The world's smallest 4.2x zoom 35mm camera, the Z155 features a powerful 37-155mm lens and Canon's three-point autofocus and autoexposure system, built-in Light Guide zoom flash, and seven-mode Best Shot Dial.

Canon's Best Shot Dial provides seven shooting modes for pinpoint control for tackling even the most challenging situations. Modes include close-up, portrait, action, and night scene. And when you want even greater individuality, you can set and save your own shooting preferences with the personal mode.

The Sure Shot Z155 incorporates a passive seven-point switching-type artificial intelligence automatic focusing (AiAF) system, which allows the user to clearly view and sharply focus on the subject in a wide variety of conditions. The focusing and metering systems are linked to the zoom, ensuring virtually the same focal range for both wide angle and telephoto shooting.

It can handle all light conditions from sunny to dark, and when shooting night scenes, the slow-sync mode makes sure background illumination also gets captured. The camera's viewfinder also incorporates a dioptric adjustment knob, increasing the usability of the camera for users wearing glasses.

As an extra feature, certain models have the possibility to add captions like "Happy Birthday" on the finished photographs.

From the Manufacturer
From its gleaming elegance to its effortless operation, Canon's new Sure Shot Z155 will change the way you take pictures. The world's smallest 4.2x zoom 35mm camera (as of February 2002), it features a powerful 37-155mm lens that makes shooting all of life's precious moments simple--the majestic sweep of a forest at dawn or the face of a child in a school play. And Canon's 3-point autofocus, ultra-precise auto exposure system, built-in Light Guide Zoom Flash and 7-mode Best Shot Dial give you the freedom to create.

The marvel is that Canon could deliver all this performance in a camera so compact and lightweight. Note the sophisticated metallic silver design richly embossed with a spiral accent, the teal grip and the stylish shape. They make the Z155 a delight to hold and to shoot. This is a camera made for you. And you'll amaze yourself at what you can do with it.

Ready, Aim, Relax
The Sure Shot Z155 combines "big camera" performance with the comfort of a compact, lightweight design--so you get the great shots you want--stress-free. A big 4.2x zoom lens captures everything from intense 155mm telephoto close-ups to breathtaking 37mm wide-angles. Focusing is simplicity itself. The Passive 3-point AiAF autofocus system assures ultra-sharp, dazzlingly clear images across the full range of the camera's powerful lens. While at the same time, the sophisticated auto exposure metering system creates the optimal settings for your subject and light. All you do is press the button. Your pictures will tell the whole story--beautifully.

The auto exposure system assures perfect pictures even in difficult lighting conditions. By linking information from the 3-point autofocus, auto exposure and flash, it gives you precise, interlocked exposures instantly and automatically.

The Sure Shot Z155 is equipped with Passive 3-point Autofocus that precisely focuses on your subject whether it's centered or off-center, to give you a sharp, flawlessly clear image.

Turn, Turn, Turn for Your Best Shot
Life is full of picture-perfect moments and Canon's Best Shot Dial helps you make the most of them. Its seven shooting modes provide the pinpoint control to tackle even the most challenging situations effortlessly. And when you want even greater individuality, there's Personal Mode to set and save your own personal shooting preferences. It all makes picture-taking with the Sure Shot Z155 simple and intensely satisfying.

• Spot: Spot Mode concentrates focus and exposure on the center of the frame so your subject is pictureperfect.
• Personal: For more individualized control over focus and flash, Personal Mode lets you create and save a unique group of settings to use whenever you want them.
• Close-up: Reveal subtle patterns and textures from as close as approx. 1.5 ft. away. This mode automatically adjusts the focal length to capture the magic of small details.
• Auto: Most of the time Auto Mode is the setting you'll turn to. takes care of everything--exposure, flash and focus--so you can concentrate on creativity.
• Portrait: The camera automatically zooms to head and shoulders distance, at the same time artistically blurring the background to create a beautiful, stylish shot.
• Action: Capture your budding superstar's first moves. Action Mode automatically meters and focuses a moving subject.
• Night Scene: For inspired evening shots, choose Night Scene. It fires the Red-Eye Reduction Flash and slows the shutter to create bright subjects against softly glowing backgrounds.

Seize the Moment
The Sure Shot Z155's built-in Light Guide Zoom Flash lets you capture life's perfect moments even when there's little natural light. This sophisticated flash has five modes including Red-Eye Reduction to diminish the red eye effect. To handle tough backlighting automatically, there's Fill-In Flash. For more creative control, select Manual Exposure Compensation.

• Red-eye reduction: The Sure Shot Z155 uses an incandescent lamp to produce faces with a normal, clear-eyed expression--avoiding the red-eyed "monster" effect of ordinary flash images.
• Fill-in flash: The Z155 automatically calculates proper exposure and flash settings for shadowed or strongly backlit subjects so your pictures capture every detail--a child's shy smile or a baby's tiny fist--even when the light isn't perfect.
• Exposure compensation: Your creativity is unlimited. Simply override the Z155's automatic metering settings to achieve your desired effect. The +1.5 EV setting lightens your subject, while -1.5 EV darkens it.

Comfortable, Convenient, Clear
Every detail of the Sure Shot Z155 has been designed to make taking pictures easy. The large LCD panel shows you every function at a glance. The Best Shot Dial is within close reach. The Real-Image Zoom Viewfinder lets you compose your shot accurately. And the eyepiece, with its Dioptric Adjustment, adjusts from -2.5 through +0.5 to let you shoot with or without your prescription glasses.

Say Something Personal
Over time, memories can grow hazy. But when you choose the Sure Shot Z155 Caption Model, you'll never have to "wonder when" again. This model can imprint each shot with the month, day and year the picture was taken. You can also personalize your pictures with 5 unique captions, in 5 different languages. It's a simple way to show you care.

Customer Reviews

Canon z155 Excellent Camera and Features!
I love this camera because the pics come out so clear and detailed. Each of the settings are a must. I like to use the night setting for taking pics at night time. Faces actually came out without that ghost look. Portrait mode is great and balances the brightness/contrast evenly. Action mode is also a must because it took great action pics at a soccer game. Overall the auto mode is great and it will work great in common conditions. Another good feature that I'm not to crazy about that's also a plus is the captions. This allows you to add words to the pic such as "I love you" or "Happy Birthday". The captions are limited but I could care less about that. Otherwise you will love this camera. I bought it on sale for ... Just shop around but if you can't wait, just go for it. You will not be sorry. The Canon Z155 truly delievers.

Major Disappointment
This camera is completely inconsistent. I took multiple pictures of shorelines and things like that while standing in the same spot, and each of the pictures that I took came out differently, but they were all taken from the same spot with the same lighting conditions and such. Also, I took all of my pictures in beautiful tropical weather and they all came out looking like it was dark and gloomy, and I was just using the automatic setting. It did terrible in low lighting situations as well. I realize that automatic cameras are not the best idea for truly amazing photos, but if you're looking for a camera that works well in different situations, this is not it.

You know, I actually thought to myself that maybe I was doing something wrong, but I've taken 4 years of photo and I've been taking pictures with various cameras (automatic & manual) for as long as I can remember and I have never had a camera that provided me with so much inconsistency (except for maybe a Pentax I used to have).

I definitely do not recommend this camera as a good automatic one. I think a disposable camera would provide you with better results. It does have some cool features on it, but the picture quality is lacking in return. I returned it and got a Minolta 160 instead and I'm still waiting to get my first roll of film back. Let's hope I have a better review for that camera when I do!

Great Camera - Fun Features - Excellent Pictures
Bought this camera in a pinch as our old one broke two days before Christmas. Didn't get a chance to read the reviews here first (and I'm glad I didn't or I probably would not have bought it!). I quickly snapped a roll of 24-exposure film to try the camera out and see if we wanted to keep it.

The pictures came out BEAUTIFULLY! I took some indoors, some out. Some with the fully automatic point-and-shoot, and expermimented with the potrait mode, sports action mode, and night mode. They all came out fantastically!

It's like having two cameras in one - a fully automatic no-brainer point and shoot as well as some features that allow you to be more creative and experimental with photography if you want to. Also a great zoom.

Canon must have corrected the issues that some of the eariler reviewers posted, because I did not experience any of these problems.