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
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-built 2/3 in (17 mm) 8.3
megapixel
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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 photographic lens, lens designated a Canon L lens, Canon L series lens, a designation normally reserved for expensive Canon EF, EF-series SLR lenses.
It has a variable-angle two-inch, polycrystalline silicon, thin-film transistor, color liquid crystal display with approximately 235,000 pixels and a colour electronic viewfinder (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 equivalent focal length, 35 mm terms. The shutter (photography), shutter has a maximum speed of 1/4,000 second. The camera's dimensions are 117.5 mm in width, 72 mm in height, and 90.3 mm in depth. Its mass is 545 Gram, g.
References
Canon's PowerShot Pro1 Information Page* Canon Inc.
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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