The PowerShot products are a line of consumer and prosumer grade digital cameras, launched by Canon in 1995. The PowerShot line has been successful for Canon, and is one of the best-selling digital camera lines worldwide. On the photo sharing website Flickr, in the point-and-shoot category, as of October 2009 all 5 of the top used cameras are Canon.

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 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

Current

  • A series : "Easy and Fun" budget cameras ranging from point-and-shoot to prosumer cameras
  • D series : waterproof, freezeproof and shockproof
  • E series : design-oriented budget cameras
  • G series : flagship cameras with advanced features
  • S/SD series (also known as PowerShot Digital ELPH ) : "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

  • Pro series : semi-professional-level cameras slotting right beneath Canon's dSLRs, consisting of the Pro70 (1998), Pro90 IS (2001), and Pro1 (2004).
  • TX series : hybrid camera/camcorders

References

  1. ^ It is for example by far the most-used point-and-shoot camera on Flickr (see http://www.flickr.com/cameras/).
  2. ^ Slashdot, Hacking Canon Point-and-Shoot Cameras, Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 06 2008, @04:56PM, from the now-don't-brick-it dept.

See also

  • List of Canon products

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