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Is Canon Powershot SX500IS a DSLR or prosumer camera?

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khun86 New Member • Posts: 1
Is Canon Powershot SX500IS a DSLR or prosumer camera?

I have plan to buy Canon Powershot SX500IS.

I have few question want to ask:

1. what type of camera is it? DLSR? Prosumer? or Compact?

2. is it got shutter count?

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BIJ001 Veteran Member • Posts: 5,828
Re: Is Canon Powershot SX500IS a DSLR or prosumer camera?
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> Is Canon Powershot SX500IS a DSLR

DSLR is a technical term, and SX500IS is no DSLR.

It is a compact (in the sense fix-lens, without mirror) camera, or rather a superzoom.

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Re: Is Canon Powershot SX500IS a DSLR or prosumer camera?
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Mark B.
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Re: Is Canon Powershot SX500IS a DSLR or prosumer camera?
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BIJ001 wrote:

> Is Canon Powershot SX500IS a DSLR

DSLR is a technical term,

It's an acronym for Digital Single Lens Reflex.  It refers to cameras that use a mirror to direct the image coming through the lens to an optical viewfinder.  There is no mirror on the SX500, so it is not a DSLR.

Marty Too Senior Member • Posts: 1,219
Re: Is Canon Powershot SX500IS a DSLR or prosumer camera?

I have plan to buy Canon Powershot SX500IS.

I have few question want to ask:

1. what type of camera is it? DLSR? Prosumer? or Compact?

2. is it got shutter count?

What do you mean by the shutter question?

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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Rafsan6158 New Member • Posts: 1
Re: Is Canon Powershot SX500IS a DSLR or prosumer camera?

Does CANON XS500IS Has Shutter  Count??

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