Canon PowerShot
The PowerShot products is a line of consumer and prosumer grade digital cameras, launched by Canon in 1996. The PowerShot line has been successful for Canon, and is one of the best-selling digital camera lines worldwide.
Free software from the Canon Hack Development Kit project allows nearly complete programmatic control of PowerShot cameras, enabling users to add features, up to and including BASIC and Lua scripting.
Some models of PowerShot cameras were affected by third-party CCD sensors with a design flaw, which caused them to fail and display severely distorted images. Canon offered to repair affected cameras free of charge.Products
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- S series: originally a series of compact point-and-shoot cameras, currently a series of prosumer cameras slotting beneath the G series
- A series: "Easy and Fun" budget cameras ranging from point-and-shoot to prosumer cameras
- PowerShot 600
- Pro series: semi-professional-level cameras slotting right beneath Canon's dSLRs, consisting of the Pro70, Pro90 IS, and Pro1
- TX series: hybrid camera–camcorders
