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Canon Cameras

Canon makes a wide variety of digital cameras from professional level SLRs to easy to use (and much more affordable) every day point and shoot cameras.  Canon is generally thought of and certainly positions it brand as a high quality camera maker.  And they do have a fairly long history of making quality cameras.  In fact Canon has been making SLR cameras since 1933, giving them several decades of experiencecanon digital camera1

Canon is a Japanese company that has roots pre-dating WWII. Canon now has a strong presence in both the Point-&-Shoot and Digital SLR markets. They have made a host of different consumer level point and shoot type cameras over the years, including a broad range of 8mm, 16mm and 35mm cameras.  Their cameras have been popular with consumers since the 1960s.


SLR Cameras

The first professional level SLR camera produced by Canon is widely considered to be the Canon F-1 released in 1971.  More recently Canon has built a reputation as a very high quality Digital SLR maker.  Throughout the past 4 decades Canon has also helped to push the camera industry forward by developing it’s own lens systems and auto focus lens systems.  Todays SLR offerings from Canon range in price from around $550 to $7,000.  At the lower end of their line, the serious amateur can get a very good camera at an affordable cost.  At the upper end, the professional can get one of the best cameras around.

Point and Shoot Cameras

Canon also makes a wide variety of point and shoot digital cameras.  These range in price from $100-$350.  The point and shoot camera is designed to fit easily into a purse or pocket and take decent quality photos quickly.  These types of cameras are great for pictures with family and friends, vacations and the like.  But they won’t be able to take magazine quality images.

Hybrid Cameras

Canon also makes a mid range of cameras that take better pictures than the average point and shoot, but don’t have interchangeable lenses like SLRs.  The Canon lines of powershot G, S & SX fall into this category of cameras. These cameras are also much less compact than the small point and shoots, but smaller than SLRs.  With regards to price they again fit into the middle range, selling for between $200 and $500 a piece.

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