Canon PowerShot
Encyclopedia
The PowerShot products are a line of consumer and prosumer
grade digital camera
s, launched by Canon in 1996. The PowerShot line has been successful for Canon, and is one of the best-selling digital camera lines worldwide.
Free software
from the Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK) project allows nearly complete programmatic control of PowerShot cameras, enabling users to add features, up to and including BASIC
& Lua scripting.
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.
Current
Discontinued
Prosumer
Prosumer is a portmanteau formed by contracting either the word professional or less often, producer with the word consumer. For example, a prosumer grade digital camera is a "cross" between consumer grade and professional grade...
grade digital camera
Digital camera
A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. It is the main device used in the field of digital photography...
s, launched by Canon in 1996. The PowerShot line has been successful for Canon, and is one of the best-selling digital camera lines worldwide.
Free software
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
from the Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK) project allows nearly complete programmatic control of PowerShot cameras, enabling users to add features, up to and including BASIC
BASIC
BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use - the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code....
& Lua scripting.
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.
Products
- A seriesCanon PowerShot AThe Canon PowerShot A is a series of digital cameras released by Canon. The A-series is Canon's budget line of cameras, although its feature set has varied as cameras have ranged from low-end point-and-shoot cameras to high-end prosumer cameras capable of rivaling Canon's flagship...
: "Easy and Fun" budget cameras ranging from point-and-shoot to prosumer cameras - D seriesCanon PowerShot DThe Canon PowerShot D is a series of digital cameras released by Canon in 2009. Currently only the D10 is available; the D series cameras are designed for underwater and heavy-duty use; the D10 is waterproof to 10 m , and freeze- and shock-resistant...
: waterproof, freeze- and shock-resistant - E series: design-oriented budget cameras
- G seriesCanon PowerShot GThe Canon PowerShot G is a series of digital cameras released by Canon. The G series cameras are Canon's flagship 'compact' models aimed at prosumer photography enthusiasts desiring more flexibility than a point-and-shoot without the bulk of a digital single-lens reflex camera.The G series offers...
: flagship cameras with advanced features - S/SD seriesCanon Digital IXUSThe Digital IXUS is a series of digital cameras released by Canon. It is a line of ultracompact cameras, originally based on the design of Canon's IXUS/IXY/ELPH line of APS cameras....
(also known as PowerShot Digital ELPH, Digital IXUS and IXY Digital): "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
- PowerShot 600 (1996)
- Pro series: semi-professional-level cameras slotting right beneath Canon's dSLRs, consisting of the Pro70 (1998), Pro90 IS (2001), and Pro1Canon PowerShot Pro1The PowerShot Pro1 is a digital camera made by Canon, announced in February 2004 and was discontinued first quarter of 2006. It uses a Sony-built 2/3 in 8.3 megapixel CCD image sensor, which gives a usable image size of approximately 8.0 megapixels. It was the most expensive fixed-lens camera...
(2004). - TX seriesCanon PowerShot TX1The Canon PowerShot TX1 is a Canon digital camera. It was released on February 22, 2007 The TX1 is Canon's attempt at a hybrid device designed to excel at both still imagery and video recording by offering both HDTV movie capture, as well as 10× stabilized zoom and 7.1 megapixel sensor...
: hybrid camera/camcordersCamcorderA camcorder is an electronic device that combines a video camera and a video recorder into one unit. Equipment manufacturers do not seem to have strict guidelines for the term usage...