Canon Announces Five New Consumer Cameras
Canon expands its consumer camera portfolio
While Canon's new professional-level 10.1 megapixel 1D Mark III D-SLR may be hogging much of the spotlight this morning, the company also has five new consumer models on tap.
First up are the new PowerShot A570 IS and the PowerShot A560. Both cameras feature 7.1MP image sensors, DIGIC III image processor, 4x optical zoom, 2.5" 115k pixel LCD display and Canon's new Face Detection AF/AE/FE technology. The A570 IS ups the ante by including Optical Image Stabilization (OIS). The A570 IS and A560 will both be available in March at a price of $279.99 and $229.99 respectively.
PowerShot A570 IS
Next up is Canon's PowerShot SD1000 Digital Elph and PowerShot SD750 Digital Elph. The cameras both include a 7.1MP image sensor, DIGIC III image processor and 3x optical zoom. The SD750 offers up a 3" LCD display, weighs less than five ounces and measures 3.5" x 2.25" x 0.75". The 4.5 ounce SD1000 includes a 2.5" screen and is smaller than a deck of playing cards. The SD750 and SD1000 will both be available in late March at a suggest retail price of $349.99 and $299.99 respectively.
PowerShot SD750 Digital Elph
Lastly, Canon showed off its new PowerShot TX1 which doubles as a digital camera and an HD video recorder. The 3.5" x 2.4" x 1.1" TX1 features a 7.1MP image sensor backed with Canon's DIGIC III processor and 10x optical zoom with image stabilization. It also incorporates a 1.8" Vari-Angle LCD display into its 7.8 ounce stainless steel body. The added bonus is that the TX1 can capture 30 FPS high definition 720p video.
PowerShot TX1
"We developed the PowerShot TX1 digital camera for people who appreciate its vast technological advances in both still and movie digital imaging and developed one, very compact, very powerful, very easy to use camera that provides high-resolution still images and HD movie capabilities as well," said Yuichi Ishizuka, senior vice president and general manager of the Consumer Imaging Group for Canon U.S.A.. "The PowerShot TX1 digital camera is the fulfillment of Canon's innovative thinking and vision that mixes the best of photography and video features like never before."
The PowerShot TX1 will be available in March for a suggested retail price of $499.
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1 comment:
Hello fellow bloggers, here is an excerpt from an article I found to be quite interesting:
In January 2007 Olympus released a new model, the SP-55OUZ, which seems to be the prodigy of this line, being a lot more performing than the previous model, the SP-51OUZ. The main characteristics of this camera are the image stabilization, 7MP resolution, and the 18x optical zoom range. The Zoom market became quite competitive and the model in discussion competes with other high quality models, such as Sony H5 or Panasonic FZ8.
This new Olympus camera is supported with Olympus Master software and AA batteries, has internal memory and xD picture card slot, over 20 scene modes, 25 language options, RAW and exposure modes, super macro mode, and 7.1 Megapixels. The SP-55OUZ model is not a small camera so some may not prefer it because of this, but taking into consideration its qualities, the size is not at all an inconvenient. It is similar in many ways to the Canon EOS 1Ds digital camera
Another great digital camera is the new FinePix S4700 from Fujifilm. This model is the optimized version of the FinePix S4600 model, which was voted last year as the European Zoom camera of 2006 by the most important European association of electronics consumers. The new model is compact and lightweight, has 10x optical zoom lens, Fujifilm Intelligent Flash system, having several scene selections. Its menu system is highly improved and it is ideal to carry with you anywhere, since it can be easily operated with one hand.
The most significant changes FinePix S4700 has over its predecessor are the ergonomic design, reduced proportions, improved ISO sensitivity up to 1600, new flash modes and a 7.1 Megapixel CCD sensor.
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-g1 is another great digital camera recently released on the electronics market. The G1 model, in particular, is Sony's first wireless digital camera, which has 2.0GB of internal memory, 6 megapixel and a 3.5 inch LCD with a 921,000 pixels resolution screen – similar stats to the Canon PowerShot S50. This model has the ability of sending photos wireless to other digital enabled devices such as laptops, palms, PCs or cameras. Reviewers say that Sony G1 model is the perfect take away digital camera, since its internal memory is pretty generous.
Hope you found this to be a good read,
Michael
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