The Canon PowerShot G9 X is a digital

compact camera A point-and-shoot camera, also known as a compact camera and sometimes abbreviated to P&S, is a still camera designed primarily for simple operation. Most use focus free lenses or autofocus for focusing, automatic systems for setting the expos ...

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. The G9 X replaces the older

Canon PowerShot S120 Designed as the successor to the Canon PowerShot S110 in the S series of cameras, the Canon PowerShot S120 is a high-end 12.1-megapixel compact digital camera with 0.3 -stops wider aperture, 0.7 bits more color depth, improved continuous shooting ...

compact camera. With a reduced zoom range and larger sensor, the camera was the smallest and lightest compact camera since the

Canon PowerShot G7 X The Canon PowerShot G7 X is a compact digital camera announced by Canon Inc. on September 15, 2014. It did not replace any model in the Canon lineup. Instead it was a new camera intended to compete with the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100-series cameras ...

. In January 2017 Canon announced the upcoming release of the

PowerShot G9 X Mark II The Canon PowerShot G9 X Mark II was released by Canon in February 2017. It kept the small size of previous PowerShot models, making it 3 grams lighter than its predecessor. It replaced the Digic 6 processor with a Digic 7 processor, making th ...

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Canon PowerShot G9 X The Canon PowerShot G9 X is a digital compact camera announced by Canon Inc. on October 13, 2015. The G9 X replaces the older Canon PowerShot S120 compact camera. With a reduced zoom range and larger sensor, the camera was the smallest and lighte ...

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