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YEAH BABY!! This thing rocks! After years of procrastinating on getting a digicam, I bought one, and it was worth the wait!
Canon's Powershot Pro1 is an 8Mp, camera with 7x optical zoom and 3. 2 digital (as if digital zoom matters).
The thing is built like a Swiss Watch. The lens is awesome-- just look into it and notice how you see almost NO reflection at all!
The metering is perfect, and the white balance presets are great. The Auto WB isn't as hot, but it works pretty well.
The autofocus is the only thing that this camera gives up to a true Digital SLR. It's pretty decent. It does have a USM, but don't kid yourself, it's not like the USM on the SLRs-- it's kinda slow. So action shots would be a challenge. I don't do action shots so I don't really care.
The macro mode is fantastic. It even has a "super" macro mode that will focus as close as 1/2", but you have to go down to 5Mp resolution. It doesn't matter, as the shots come out great.
Not only does it support all the advanced Canon flash features (all externals, e-ttl, wireless, slow-sync, etc), but it has flash compensation as well. +/- 2 stops in 1/3 increments.
I was spoiled by my SLR and thought it was nice. When I bought a camera, I wanted a top-of the line Pro SLR that was digital.
Well, this Camera does 95% of what those will do at 1/5th of the cost. Not to mention I don't have to lug around a huge bag of extra crap.
Let me know if you want me to email you some high-res pics I took with it. I have a pic of my own eye that I took with the super macro-- it's unreal to see the detail.
Email me if you want to see some pics I took with it or if there's a certain pic of my truck that you want to see.
Justin
Canon's Powershot Pro1 is an 8Mp, camera with 7x optical zoom and 3. 2 digital (as if digital zoom matters).
The thing is built like a Swiss Watch. The lens is awesome-- just look into it and notice how you see almost NO reflection at all!
The metering is perfect, and the white balance presets are great. The Auto WB isn't as hot, but it works pretty well.
The autofocus is the only thing that this camera gives up to a true Digital SLR. It's pretty decent. It does have a USM, but don't kid yourself, it's not like the USM on the SLRs-- it's kinda slow. So action shots would be a challenge. I don't do action shots so I don't really care.
The macro mode is fantastic. It even has a "super" macro mode that will focus as close as 1/2", but you have to go down to 5Mp resolution. It doesn't matter, as the shots come out great.
Not only does it support all the advanced Canon flash features (all externals, e-ttl, wireless, slow-sync, etc), but it has flash compensation as well. +/- 2 stops in 1/3 increments.
I was spoiled by my SLR and thought it was nice. When I bought a camera, I wanted a top-of the line Pro SLR that was digital.
Well, this Camera does 95% of what those will do at 1/5th of the cost. Not to mention I don't have to lug around a huge bag of extra crap.
Let me know if you want me to email you some high-res pics I took with it. I have a pic of my own eye that I took with the super macro-- it's unreal to see the detail.
Email me if you want to see some pics I took with it or if there's a certain pic of my truck that you want to see.
Justin
