Canon introduced the PowerShot V1, a brand new compact point-and-shoot model digicam with a 22.3-megapixel sensor and built-in lens. It includes a reasonably giant Kind 1.4 sensor and is filled with video options that look designed to tackle Sony’s ZV-1 Mark II creator camera.
The digicam can take each images and movies however is clearly designed with video content material creators in thoughts before everything — there isn’t any built-in flash and no digital viewfinder, solely a vari-angle LCD. The Kind 1.4 sensor (wholly new from Canon) is reasonably giant for a fixed-lens digicam system from Canon and is akin to a Micro 4 Thirds sensor — it’s barely wider however not fairly as tall. This sensor will not be stacked however does have sufficient pace to deal with 4K at as much as 60p, albeit with a meaty 1.4x crop to the middle of the sensor.
The digicam, which is positioned as “video first,” is provided with Canon Log 3, a built-in three-stop bodily ND filter, Canon’s multi-function sizzling shoe, and each a headphone and mic jack. There’s a single UHS-II SD card slot in addition to USB and HDMI ports, too.
Canon will ship the PowerShot V1 with a small dead cat as an included accent. The PowerShot V1 additionally has a built-in fan that ejects warmth through seen cooling vents. Due to this, Canon says the PowerShot V1 can shoot 4Kp60 for greater than two hours when auto energy off is about to excessive.
The “video first” strategy is mirrored within the selection of the lens, which is an equal 16-50mm f/2.8-4.5 wide-angle zoom (8.8-25.6mm), which is totally different from what Canon has included in equally designed cameras like the G7X Mark III up to now for the reason that wider discipline of view is supposed to assist video content material creators. Equally, there are a number of film capturing “moods” which are obtainable in-camera, which is a primary for a PowerShot.
When capturing at a slower 4Kp30, the digicam could make use of the total width of the sensor, and the footage is oversampled from 5.7K. When capturing video, the ISO efficiency can attain as excessive as 25,600 however in images, that goes as much as 51,200.
Talking of images, the PowerShot V1 captures 22.3-megapixel images at as much as 30 frames per second. The digicam is provided with Canon’s Digic X picture processor and has an autofocus system that’s inherited from the R6 Mark II. Which means monitoring, pupil detection, automotive, individuals, and animal choice are all included and function with comparable effectivity. What’s totally different is topic monitoring IS: the digicam acknowledges a topic, corrects for blurring, and adjusts crop place in accordance with the topic’s place, Canon says.
Canon included a photograph and video change behind the mode dial to alter how the digicam operates and it’ll keep in mind totally different settings for picture and video independently.
The PowerShot V1 can work together with a smartphone both wired with a USB-C cable or through WiFi or Bluetooth through the Canon Join app. It can be used as a webcam with a direct connection to a pc through USB with no adapters required.
The digicam is introduced forward of the CP+ present in Yokohama subsequent week, which could clarify the restricted launch. On the time of the announcement, Canon is just confirming that the digicam is coming to Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan whereas the worldwide availability, together with all of North America, is to be decided. No pricing or availability (even within the restricted markets) was supplied on the time of announcement.
PetaPixel will try and get hold of some hands-on time with samples of the PowerShot V1 when it attends the CP+ tradeshow in Yokohama, Japan subsequent week the place the digicam is anticipated to be on show.
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