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
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (i ...
-built 2/3 in (17 mm) 8.3
megapixel
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CCD
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* Charge-coupled device, an electronic light sensor used in various devices including digital cameras
* .ccd, the filename extension for CloneCD's CD image file
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image sensor An image sensor or imager is a sensor that detects and conveys information used to form an image. It does so by converting the variable attenuation of light waves (as they refraction, pass through or reflection (physics), reflect off objects) into s ...
, 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
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designated a
Canon L series lens, a designation normally reserved for the professional lines of their
FD,
EF, and
RF lenses for interchangeable lens cameras.
It has a variable-angle two-inch,
polycrystalline silicon
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Polysilicon is produc ...
,
thin-film transistor
A thin-film transistor (TFT) is a special type of field-effect transistor (FET) where the transistor is made by thin film deposition. TFTs are grown on a supporting (but non-conducting) substrate, such as glass. This differs from the convention ...
, color
liquid crystal display
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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 sc ...
(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
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. 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.
Canon Inc. (; Hepburn: ) is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, specializing in optical, imaging, and industrial products, such as lenses, cameras, medical equipment, scanners, printers, and semiconductor manu ...
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.
See also
*
List of digital cameras with CCD sensors
There has been renewed interest in vintage digital cameras, also known as digicams, due to their ability to take photos with a particular nostalgic look without the expense of analog photographic film, film. This trend coincides with the resurgen ...
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Digital cameras with CCD image sensor
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