Canon PowerShot Pro1 at a glance:

• 8MP sensor
• 7x optical zoom (28-200mm equivalent)
• f/2.4-3.6
• Auto, Scene Program, Program, and Manual exposure modes
• tilt/swivel LCD panel
• EVF/LCD works down to very low light levels

Before you get excited: The Canon PowerShot Pro1 was released 13 years ago. However, it’s the only PowerShot camera Canon ever released featuring a L-grade lens (see the red ring?).

The folks over at The Camera Store TV posted a 11 minutes video review of the PowerShot Pro1. Chris Niccolls got a PowerShot Pro1 in his hands and wants to see what features are still compelling, and which are hopelessly out of date. Enjoy.

Some more bits about the Canon PowerShot Pro1 (source: Wikipedia):

[the PowerShot Pro1] was the most expensive fixed-lens camera sold by Canon at the time, and thus the top of the PowerShot range. It was the first fixed lens designated a Canon L series lens, a designation normally reserved for expensive EF-series SLR lenses.

It has a variable-angle two-inch, polycrystalline silicon, thin-film transistor, color liquid crystal display with approximately 235,000 pixels and a colour electronic viewfinder (EVF) with the same resolution. The lens has a 35 mm equivalent zoom range of 28 to 200 mm. The shutter has a maximum speed of 1/4,000 second. The camera’s dimensions are 117.5 mm in width, 72 mm in height, and 90.3 mm in depth. Its mass is 545 g.

The PowerShot Pro1 was announced in August 2004, and then sold for $999. I found Canon’s press release for the PowerShot Pro1, you can read it after the break.