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Canon PowerShot Pro 1 8MP Digital Camera with 7x Optical Zoom Features
- 8-megapixel sensor captures enough detail to create photo-quality 16-by-22-inch enlargements
- Canon 7x optical L-series zoom lens
- 2-inch LCD screen; movie mode; 1.2-inch macro mode; PictBridge compatible
- Store images on Compact Flash Type I or II cards (64 MB card included)
- Powered by Rechargeable lithium ion battery (BP-511A) (included with charger)
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After having about 35 years of accumulated Canon (film) equipment taken from my truck I had a choice: stay with film, or go digital. I started with a digital Canon because I’m familiar with the way they think a camera should work, I’m sure a Nikon would have been as good a choice, but I started with Canon. And worked my way up through a series of cameras to the Pro 1. If you have never used their `L’ series glass, you will be astonished at how fast, crisp, clean, and clear it is. The 28-200 zoom is nice. You will get a lot from this camera, but pushing 8 megapixels to a large `professional’ sized print is difficult. Everything everyone has said is pretty much true.
The:
** Good: L series glass, OPTICAL zoom, good range in zoom, STRONG flash, exceptionally nice smaller prints. Will take long – tripod needed -shots in the multiple seconds range. can be used point and shoot or full manual.
** Average: Battery life is average so have a spare (or two), and I’ve been told many, many times that I DO need to stick with Canon Batteries by people I respect – so ditch the 10 for 0 non Canon batteries and stick with Canon. I’ve been given many reasons when I have my yearly cleaning and tune up of my cameras and lenses (only because I treat them rough and use them in hostile environments (like the Great Basins and Ranges in the Summer heat and dust and the Winter cold and grit and wet). The best reason I’ve been given is that non-canon batteries may 1) lose their re-charge life significantly faster because they are often made of re-cycled materials that have not been cleaned up very well, and probably most important, they tend to leak if left too long without use or charge. This will destroy your camera right then and there – and I have noticed that one bunch of `money saving’ batteries DID start to leak (first sign is the copper beginning to turn a greenish brown, before the green really shows up) after only about 3 weeks of charge-discharge cycles. Didn’t save much on those batteries, AND I needed to carry 5 or 6 with one in the charger all the time to do a full day shoot. So now I cowboy up for name brand batteries. I don’t like it, but people who know say I need to stay with Canon batteries, and all they do is repair optical equipment, they sell ONLY service on things from microscopes to cameras, no tangible products of any kind, and that’s about as neutral as you’ll get. It doesn’t seem it would matter, but it does.
** Bad: slow to boot up, hard or impossible to auto-focus in low light, WILL freeze sometimes in low light or low battery, if you accidentally remove the card while it’s on, you’ll erase the entire card, poor quality large prints, flash often TOO powerful and I have to `bounce’ it off a home-made white card double bounce contraption and it almost always needs to `bounce’ for inside diffusion and even distribution of light. But a simple 3×5 card will do that nicely, but side angle bounce flash is nearly impossible — sometimes you can use a bent 3×5 card, but it’s very awkward and often the card will show up in the frame unless you pay very close attention to it, and focusing and holding a card is ALMOST impossible. Might as well forget wild-life photography, by the time you pull up your camera, turn it on, wait for it to boot, and then get a focus, that Osprey is now on the other side of the canyon, or that deer is most likely behind a tree or rock or has taken it’s four bounds and is now just a dot in the zoom lens. And that Bald Eagle on the fence post about 50 feet away is now in Utah or Oregon at 20,000 feet. The way you counter this problem is to keep the camera on and not let it go to sleep — draining your batteries every second. Count birds out, large mammals as maybes, and landscapes as certainties. Portraits are as good as you are in normal light. I don’t shoot portraits, so this is a neutral point for me.
** EXCEPTIONAL!!!! I got distracted by my dogs while shooting a sunset scene of a Nevada Mountain Range and had it mounted by one of those `spider’ pods to the brush guard on my old Toyota Land Cruiser. I got in and drove away and at about 40-45 MPH hit a small pot hole on the dirt road and heard a funny sound and looked out my passenger-side mirror and saw the black box of the camera rolling across the dirt. Dang!
When I got back to the camera there was a very small roundish crack in the top where it had first hit hard pan, then bounced across some gravel and into some sand where it came to rest in an old bitter brush bush. IF I’d sealed it right away it would have stayed, but I didn’t and in about a month the place where it had cracked fell off, showing some of the electrical parts inside, and I sealed this with some plastic and glue. When I sent it off for it’s cleaning a bit early – they said other than the normal amount of grit and dust they’d normally find, there was no other damage to the camera, lens or focusing mechanism. Wow. Well built is an understatement.
THE BOTTOM LINE:
1)….I AM ASTOUNDED AT HOW WELL BUILT AND SOLID THIS CAMERA IS!
2)….If you want to REALLY learn photography, this is the camera to buy. It’ll let you be lazy and use it as a point and shoot, but you can also move to manual settings, AND it has a macro setting so you get close-up and personal — and with the L series glass you the best of both worlds: point-and-shoot to almost-true-pro with super fast glass (this means you can hand-hold in lower light and not need a flash). Every shot is free until you print it. So take the shot, the only way to learn is to take the shot — the worst that will happen is you’ll throw it away. And I have to admit that seeing your image captured right away will improve your ability as a photographer faster than any film camera will, I probably learned as much in the first month of owning this camera as I had in the previous 35 years – but I also read the manual. AND, this camera will teach you all of the little things you need to know so you can `trick’ the brain of digital cameras in general.
3)….I’ve just bought a Canon 5D with a set of lenses and while I have now learned my way through the beginnings of digital photography starting with simple and moving to the top of the `amateur’ cameras, I can now move to a mid-real pro camera and know what I need and what I don’t. But I would not hesitate to carry this as a `backup’ or use it in places that I’d not want to take my several thousand dollar camera and lenses or lug 5-10-25 pounds of glass. AND only if I wanted prints that were smaller than 11×17. At 11×17″ you are pushing the camera to, and maybe just a tad beyond it’s maximum resolution limit.
*****FINAL SCORE: 4.70 STARS*****
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