Canon's PowerShot Pro70 Wins Popular Mechanics' Editor's Choice Award at Consumer Electronics Show '99

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Canon PowerShot Pro70 digital camera was honored last week by Popular Mechanics magazine with the publication's first annual Editor's Choice Award for best digital still camera. The announcement was made during a reception at the Winter Consumer Electronics Trade Show in Las Vegas on January 7th. The award was established to recognize and honor corporations whose innovative products enhance consumers' lives.

Canon's PowerShot Pro70 is a full-featured digital camera that offers prosumers a wide range of capabilities, including the highest resolution in its class with the 1.68 million- pixel CCD sensor. The sensor produces images as large as 1536 x 1024 pixels, which allows users to create high-quality 8 x 10-inch photographic prints.

Additional features include a built-in 28-70mm f/2.0~2.4, 2.5x power zoom lens, which provides users with high optical resolution, low distortion, true wide-angle capability and the largest maximum aperture in its class. The PowerShot Pro70 is also the first digital camera to offer two CompactFlash card slots for maximum picture-taking capability, including one type II slot, making it compatible with IBM's high-capacity MicroDrives.