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Is Canon Powershot SX500IS a DSLR or prosumer camera?

Started Aug 1, 2013 | Questions thread
GeraldW Veteran Member • Posts: 8,872
Re: Is Canon Powershot SX500IS a DSLR or prosumer camera?
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1) Neither. It is a large compact camera.  Also known as a point and shoot, or a fixed (non-interchangeable) lens camera.

2) It does not have a shutter activation counter, and they don't specify the shutter life in terms of actuations on that level of camera.

DSLR was nicely explained by another poster in this thread.  Prosumer is a term from the early days of digital and was a way of talking about some of the very high quality non-DSLR cameras in that era.  Examples were the Canon Pro 1, Sony F828, and Olympus 8080.  The idea was that these were consumer models of professional quality.  Also known as "bridge" cameras back then,  although that term is now used for the better "superzoom" cameras like the FZ200 or SX50HS.

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