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Canon PowerShot S110

digital camera model

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ5033260
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The Canon PowerShot S110 is a high-end 12.1-megapixel compact digital camera announced and released in 2012. It was designed as the successor to the Canon PowerShot S100 in the S series of the Canon PowerShot line of cameras.

The S110 is very similar to the S100, with the addition of a multi-touch capacitive touchscreen and the omission of a GPS receiver in favor of a Wi-Fi transmitter being the biggest change.

Features

12.1 megapixels

JPEG (Exif 2.3) support

Raw image file format; one of few "point and shoot" cameras to have raw formatting. (Note: Raw format is not available in Auto, Low Light, and SCN modes. Raw is available in Program, Tv (shutter priority), Av (aperture priority), Manual, and Custom modes)

MOV (QuickTime) (image data compressed in H.264, audio data in stereo Linear PCM).

iFrame (1280×720, 30FPS)

ISO sensitivity 80–12800 (in 1⁄3-step increments) and auto (up to ISO 1600).

Full manual control

Customizable Control Ring to control ISO, shutter speed, aperture, focus, or exposure compensation

Five photo aspect ratios: 16:9, 3:2, 4:3, 1:1, 4:5

Video features

Recording Standard, Color Accent, Color Swap: 1920 × 1080 (24 frame/s), 1280 × 720 (30 frame/s), 640 × 480 (30)

Recording Miniature Effect: 1280 × 720 (6 / 3 / 1.5 frame/s), 640 × 480 (6 / 3 / 1.5 frame/s)

Recording Super Slow Motion: 640 × 480 (120 frame/s), 320 × 240 (240 frame/s)

Continuous shooting, P mode continuous shooting: ~2.3 shot/s. High-speed burst mode in HQ continuous shooting: ~9.6 shot/s.

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