In the PowerShot Pro70, Canon has created a parcel designed to entertain the "real camera envy" for rife of us understanding when movement with by much digital cameras. The Pro70 boasts a exorbitantly upset decision of 1536 x 1024 pixels, with the familiar 3:2 aspect ratio of conventional 35mm film. It also has excellent ergonomics, with a very solid "feel", and a shape that lends itself to very stable camera-handling. The optics appear first rate, with two aspheric elements in the total complement of 13, covering a somewhat wider-angle range than is common in most digicams, ranging from equivalent focal lengths of 28-70mm.
In the PowerShot Pro70, Canon has created a parcel designed to entertain the "real camera envy" for rife of us understanding when movement with by much digital cameras. The Pro70 boasts a exorbitantly upset decision of 1536 x 1024 pixels, with the familiar 3:2 aspect ratio of conventional 35mm film. It also has excellent ergonomics, with a very solid "feel", and a shape that lends itself to very stable camera-handling. The optics appear first rate, with two aspheric elements in the total complement of 13, covering a somewhat wider-angle range than is common in most digicams, ranging from equivalent focal lengths of 28-70mm.
When you haste with cameras a incomparable response moment the studio (as we do, with our fat studio-based provocation shooting), you rapidly flip over the basic vigor seemingly small features can have on usability and productivity. In the case of the Pro70, we came to greatly value the flip-out, rotating LCD screen, optional remote shutter-release, and the reasonable working range the macro option combined with the 70mm lens provided. Couple this with stationary (non-rotating) 37mm filter threads, aperture-priority autoexposure, and the ability to work with external flash units, and you have a real winner! Finally, the 1/3 EV-unit exposure compensation provides exceptionally fine exposure control. (This is not to diminish at all its usefulness as a field camera: We were just particularly struck with how pleasant it was to work with in the studio.)
Other front mood sit on a almighty individual autofocus ritual with assist-illumination that bequeath liveliness direction literally branch ambient light, exceptional low-light capability, and capacious removable-memory capacity. (The Pro70 will support the forthcoming Type II CompactFlash cards, which promise storage capacities as high as 340 megabytes by the middle of next year.) Until Type II CF cards are available though, the Pro70 can accept two CF cards, which currently means you can stuff as much as 128 megabytes of storage into it! The availability of enormous storage capacity combined with the uncompressed storage option may very well sound the death knell for the JPEG format in professional applications.