Friday, May 14, 2004
C|Net Reviews Canon PowerShot Pro1
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 02:00 PM
"Like many enthusiast digicams, the Canon PowerShot Pro1 resembles an SLR, but its styling looks a bit cleaner and more attractive than that of most of its competitors. The black metal/plastic hybrid body feels very solid, is about the size of a compact film SLR, and weighs a relatively modest 1 pound, 7 ounces with battery and media installed.
As is typical of Canon's enthusiast cameras, you access some of the PowerShot Pro1's key features via a menu called up by the Func button on the camera back, others with the four-way controller, and still more via dedicated buttons. You use the four-way controller--which someone at Canon, bless his or her wonky heart, dubbed the Omni Selector--to navigate the PowerShot's menus, which are adequately labeled and quick to operate."
C|New found the Pro1 quite good in terms of quality but was disappointed by some 'annoying drawbacks'. They found the photos it took to be excellent and highly detailed. They also loved the 7X L-series zoom lens, however, they were not impressed by the slow autofocus and bad shutter delay. Finally, they found its thumb-scrolling-through-menus procedures for settings a little less handy than some competitors' cameras. I have only heard good things about the Pro1 so far in terms of image quality and this article confirms it. So if you can deal with the few drawbacks and want a top prosumer camera, this is a solid one from Canon, and it may be for you.
As is typical of Canon's enthusiast cameras, you access some of the PowerShot Pro1's key features via a menu called up by the Func button on the camera back, others with the four-way controller, and still more via dedicated buttons. You use the four-way controller--which someone at Canon, bless his or her wonky heart, dubbed the Omni Selector--to navigate the PowerShot's menus, which are adequately labeled and quick to operate."
C|New found the Pro1 quite good in terms of quality but was disappointed by some 'annoying drawbacks'. They found the photos it took to be excellent and highly detailed. They also loved the 7X L-series zoom lens, however, they were not impressed by the slow autofocus and bad shutter delay. Finally, they found its thumb-scrolling-through-menus procedures for settings a little less handy than some competitors' cameras. I have only heard good things about the Pro1 so far in terms of image quality and this article confirms it. So if you can deal with the few drawbacks and want a top prosumer camera, this is a solid one from Canon, and it may be for you.
