Canon Digital Camera

The prices range from less than $100.(£50) on the lower end of the scale to over $3.200 (£1,600) on the higher end. The cheapest canon camera has an image size of 3.2 mega pixels and is an automatic focus, point and shoot type for amateurs and every day use.

On the higher end we have digital Single Lens Reflex (SLR) canon camera, in which the photographer can view the scene precisely through the lens before taking the picture, with 10.3 mega pixels image size, 2.5” large LCD panel, ability to save images in multiple formats, option of auto and manual exposure, optical zoom etc. meant for professional use.

Digital cameras first introduced in the early 1990’s by Kodak are rapidly gaining in popularity over conventional film based cameras even though the latter is over a century old. Digital cameras do not follow the process of messy handling of chemicals during the developing and printing of film based cameras. Instead they follow the pixel based camera-technology in which each picture element (pixel) is a charge coupled device (CCD) or complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) which generates electrical impulses on being excited by light.

 Higher the no. of pixels, sharper is the image. Image sensors that can handle as high as 13.9 mega pixels have been developed recently. The images are stored in the digital form and can be instantly viewed on a computer or a printer or a TV and distributed over the internet through email. Canon has the credit of introducing the world’s 35mm camera with focal plane shutters in 1936 and the company has been keeping pace with technological advances in the making of cameras ever since.

Let us now look at some of the features of a low end point and shoot Canon power shot digital camera and a high end Canon SLR power shot digital camera. The point and shoot camera has a pixel size of 3 to 6 mega pixels, focal length of 5 to 17 mm (equivalent to 35 to 105 mm of 35mm film), shooting speed of approximately 2.5 frames per second, shutter speed of 15-1/1500 sec, 1.5 to 2.5” LCD display and a weight of about 150 gm. It runs on alkaline or rechargeable Lithium or NiMH batteries.

The Canon SLR power shot camera has an image size in excess of 10 mega pixels, focal length of 7.4 to 44mm (equivalent to 35 to 210mm of 35mm film), shooting speed of 2 frames per second, shutter speed of 15-1/2000 second, 2.5” LCD display with brightness adjustment and weight of 320 gm. It can store still and motion pictures in JPEG and AVI formats. It is powered by high capacity rechargeable Lithium batteries. Both the camera types can download picture through high speed USB port to a computer.

Canon sells over 20 different types of digital cameras to match every need and one only needs to fix their budget in order to pick one.

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