The PowerShot Pro1 is a
digital camera
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made by
Canon
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, announced in February 2004 and was discontinued first quarter of 2006. It uses a
Sony
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professiona ...
-built 2/3 in (17 mm) 8.3
megapixel
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In most digital display devices, pixels are the sm ...
CCD image sensor
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, which gives a usable image size of approximately 8.0 megapixels. It was the most expensive fixed-lens camera sold by Canon at the time, and thus the top of the PowerShot range. It was the first fixed
lens
A lens is a transmissive optical device which focuses or disperses a light beam by means of refraction. A simple lens consists of a single piece of transparent material, while a compound lens consists of several simple lenses (''elements ...
designated a
Canon L series lens, a designation normally reserved for expensive
EF-series SLR lenses.
It has a variable-angle two-inch,
polycrystalline silicon,
thin-film transistor
A thin-film transistor (TFT) is a special type of field-effect transistor (FET) where the transistor is thin relative to the plane of the device. TFTs are grown on a supporting (but non-conducting) substrate. A common substrate is glass, becaus ...
, color
liquid crystal display with approximately 235,000 pixels and a colour
electronic viewfinder
An electronic viewfinder (EVF) is a camera viewfinder where the image captured by the lens is displayed on a small screen (usually LCD or OLED) which the photographer can look through when composing their shot. It differs from a live preview ...
(EVF) with the same resolution. The lens has a zoom range of 7.2 to 50.8 mm, equivalent to 28 to 200 mm in
35 mm terms. The
shutter has a maximum speed of 1/4,000
second. The camera's dimensions are 117.5 mm in
width
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, 72 mm in
height
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, and 90.3 mm in depth. Its mass is 545
g.
References
Canon's PowerShot Pro1 Information Page*
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.< ...
Powershot Pro1'. Retrieved on October 26, 2005.
* DPReview.com.
Canon PowerShot Pro1 Review'. Retrieved on October 26, 2005.
* Shuttertalk.com.
Canon PowerShot Pro1 Review'. Retrieved on December 5, 2005.
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