The 10 Most Important Canon PowerShot Cameras of All-Time

[Canon Rumors]

Following my list of the 10 most important EOS Digital cameras ever, I figured I'd do the same thing for PowerShot. Don't worry, there is no top 10 printer or camcorder list coming. As we all know, the compact market dried up, and quite quickly once smartphones took over the world. I'm not sure if […]

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[neuroanatomist]

I’d certainly add an S model to the list, I had the S95, S100 and S120. Truly pocketable (even in jeans), good zoom range and shot RAW.

 

[DhlcadR6]

Where's the S series, they were great and pioneers of its time, so much that Nikon follows with their P series, and Sony brings out RX100 series.

 

[Nathalietje86]

I really hope that canon comes up with a good compact camera maybe a hs740 with bigger sensor and raw and a view finder..
I will still hope canon thinks about photographers also

 

[Sporgon]

I had a G12, G16, the latter a very good implementation of the Sony sensor, but never really fell head over heels in love with it. However, the next one, the G1X was very good indeed, a camera that I felt I could take anywhere without later regret that I should have made the effort to carry FF dslr. Reviewers laughed at the optical finder, but it was actually perfectly adequate most of the time. I gave it away to a friend of mine after getting the G1Xiii, but still have an uncomfortable feeling that it was better in some ways.
The G1X was a little clunky; the mark iii did away with that and is quite a polished product. Again I can use it without having remorse later, the IQ is excellent and the lens is pretty good. Mine certainly isn’t ‘soft’ as some reviewers claimed. It’s going with me to Glencoe in a couple of weeks.

 

[mb66energy]

I startet my digital camera journey with the G2 - the minor attractive silver variant. It was expensive and meant for some web photos or shots in library to replace paper copies during writing a book.
This camera made a lot of fun because it had really good film like quality - no strange artifacts etc. And the lens was bright enough for lower light conditions, some bokeh and equipped with some close up capability.
Flippy screen was very helpful for alternative angles of view and the stamp like size of it helped to educate to look at the scene to understand what is on the display - the display was good enough for final composition.
Tech wise and for learning how to shoot digitally it was and is a master piece I still own.
S95 was the 2nd and last P&S from Canon, a good companion but I would prefer an M50 ii with e.g. EF-M 32 in 99.999% of use cases.

 

[Dragon]

I landed a very nice Pro1 on eBay last year. I was curious to see how it compared to the Minolta Dimage A2 that I have had since it was first released. I believe both cameras have the same CCD sensor and the lenses are very similar. The Minolta is 7.2-50.8 f/2.8-3.5 and the Canon is 7.2-50.8 f/2.4-3.5. The Pro1 is a substantially smaller camera than the Minolta, but looking at images, they are very close. Both lenses are excellent over the entire zoom range and both offer RAW files. I took many longtime favorite images with the Minolta, but the 5D II turned me into a Canonista, so I was curious about the comparison. Below are a couple of samples.