The Canon PowerShot G5 X is a compact
digital camera
A digital camera is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film. Digital cameras are now widely incorporated into mobile devices ...
announced by
Canon Inc.
is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optical, imaging, and industrial products, such as lenses, cameras, medical equipment, scanners, printers, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment.< ...
on October 13, 2015. It replaced the older
G16.
The G5 X is a new design replacing the optical
viewfinder
In photography, a viewfinder is what the photographer looks through to compose, and, in many cases, to focus the picture. Most viewfinders are separate, and suffer parallax, while the single-lens reflex camera lets the viewfinder use the main ...
with an electronic one and the 1/1.7" sensor by a one-inch one. The camera has a
DSLR
A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a digital imaging sensor.
The reflex design scheme is the primary difference between a ...
-like form factor with the viewfinder in the center.
See also
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List of large sensor fixed-lens cameras
This is a list of digital cameras with a fixed (non- interchangeable) lens and a 1.0-type (“1-inch”) image sensor or larger, excluding smartphones and camcorders. Many of these cameras are also known as high-end point-and-shoot cameras or prem ...
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G5 X
Point-and-shoot cameras
Canon PowerShot G5 X
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