Canon PowerShot Pro1

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Pros
Compact case
Cons
Battery life is below average

$799.00
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Canon PowerShot Pro1 Review

by Tracey Capen

- The PowerShot Pro1 is a sweet camera. With its all-black body and lens barrel-based zoom control, it has the feel of a very compact single-lens reflex model. It's built on the now-standard advanced digital camera shape: a squared-off body with a large protruding lens and a chunky right-hand grip that doubles as the camera's battery compartment. But the Pro1 feels significantly smaller in the hand than its competitors--especially other 8-megapixel models. An easy-to-grip ring on the camera's stubby lens barrel controls the zoom. It's still a powered zoom, but a fairly smooth and precise one nevertheless. The ring doubles as your focus control when the camera's manual focus is switched on. Unfortunately, this arrangement does make it difficult to use the camera one-handed.

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User Reviews for Canon PowerShot Pro1

Reviewed by: splint

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Very easy to use. Great sharpness, Super Makro is great. Good batteries that last long. Easy to update new software by USB-cable. Very many, to comfort an ambitieus photographer.usefull possibilities.

Weaknesses: Taking pictures of moving things or people is almost impossible. The camera is too slow... Focussing in low light is worse. Using 200 and 400 ISO deliveres pickled pictures.

Overall Evaluation: It should have an imagestabilzer, it's too slow for taking action pictures. Therefore not useable in low light conditions, but still it is for 8 out of 10 pictures a great camera with perfect image quality. The large moveble display is great for taking pic's from all angles. If they remove the weaknesses it's a superb camera.
Reviewed by: azjoe35

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Clear pictures, flexibility (AE settings, manual focus ability), sturdy frame, many options.

Weaknesses: Lense ring required (included) to attach any filters. Using this with built in flash will create a slight shadow at the bottom of the picture due to size of ring.

Overall Evaluation: Over-all the camera is wonderful with the exception of the weakness above and the fact that 2 filters at wide-angle leaves slightly darkened corners in the picture. The battery life is good but you only have about 14 shots when the "fuel gauge" alerts you that you are getting low. I found a great 2nd battery on E-bay for about $14. There is quite a bit of noise at 200 and 400 ISO but 50 and 100 are flawless. There is enough flexibility to allow me to be creative. This was important to me coming from 26 years of 35mm SLR shooting. There are 3 choices if you want to shoot "Fine" "Superfine" and "Normal" I find little difference in either so I stick to Fine and get many more pictures. 1. I find the built in flash surprisingly powerful for most of my usage. There are many thoughtful options (to many to list) that took me awhile to remember them all. Overall it's a great camera except for the filter ring issues.

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