Canon PowerShot
The PowerShot products are a line of consumer and prosumer grade digital cameras, launched by Canon in 1995. The PowerShot line has been successful for Canon, and is one of the best-selling digital camera lines worldwide. On the photo sharing website Flickr, in the point-and-shoot category, the top three most-uploaded photographs are taken with Canon PowerShot cameras.[1]
According to Slashdot, freeware from the CHDK project allows nearly complete programmatic control of PowerShot cameras, enabling users to add features, up to and including BASIC scripting.[2]
Some models of Powershot cameras were affected by third party CCD sensors with a design flaw which caused them to fail and display severely distorted images. Canon has offered to repair affected cameras free of charge. [1]
Products
Current
- A series: "Easy and Fun" budget cameras ranging from point-and-shoot to prosumer cameras
- D series: waterproof, freezeproof and shockproof
- E series: design-oriented budget cameras
- G series: flagship cameras with advanced features
- S/SD series (also known as PowerShot Digital ELPH): "Performance and Style" ultracompact point-and-shoot cameras
- S/SX series: ultra-zoom cameras
- S series: originally a series of compact point-and-shoot cameras, currently a series of prosumer cameras slotting beneath the G series
Discontinued
- Pro series: semi-professional-level cameras slotting right beneath Canon's dSLRs, consisting of the Pro70 (1998), Pro90 IS (2001), and Pro1 (2004).
- TX series: hybrid camera/camcorders
References
- ^ It is for example by far the most-used point-and-shoot camera on Flickr (see http://www.flickr.com/cameras/).
- ^ Slashdot, Hacking Canon Point-and-Shoot Cameras, Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 06, @04:56PM, from the now-don't-brick-it dept.
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