Canon’s new PowerShot V1 puts video first

Canon has announced a caller point-and-shoot compact camera called the PowerShot V1 designed to entreaty much to video contented creators.

The V1 pairs a wide-angle lens pinch a caller sensor from the company, and it’s the first PowerShot exemplary to present “moods” that customize the look and consciousness of videos, positive a merchandise demo mode that prioritizes autofocus for objects held adjacent to the camera. It besides has a built-in cooling instrumentality truthful it tin grounds astatine 4K/60p for complete 2 hours without overheating.

The PowerShot V1 was announced up of the CP+ photography show taking spot successful Yokohama, Japan adjacent week. Canon has revealed specifications connected astir of the V1’s functionality, but constricted specifications connected availability. Canon’s Japan site lists the PowerShot V1 pinch a 148,500 yen value tag, aliases astir $990. It will motorboat successful Japan, Korea, Honk Kong, China, and Taiwan successful precocious April 2025, but wider availability, including the US, is still to beryllium determined. More specifications whitethorn beryllium announced adjacent week.

The V1’s caller Type 1.4 sensor is akin successful size to a Micro Four Thirds sensor, but features a 3:2 facet ratio that’s somewhat wider and shorter. The camera tin seizure 22.3-megapixel still images astatine up to 15fps pinch its mechanical shutter, aliases up to 30fps pinch its physics one. When capturing 10-bit video astatine 4K/30p the full width of the V1’s sensor is used, but erstwhile boosting that to 60p a 1.4x sensor harvest is utilized to trim processing needs and power generation.

The caller sensor is paired pinch a 16-50mm balanced f/2.8-4.5 wide-angle zoom lens and Canon’s Dual Pixel AF II strategy borrowed from its EOS R6 Mark II. That gives the V1 autofocus features that see taxable tracking, image stabilization that helps support that subject’s position successful frame, and the automatic discovery of people, cars, animals, and moreover pupils.

The V1 doesn’t person an physics viewfinder, truthful framing and paper navigation is handled wholly by a three-inch vari-angle LCD touchscreen connected the back. But it tin beryllium tethered to a smartphone utilizing a Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, aliases USB-C relationship pinch the Canon Connect app, and it tin beryllium utilized arsenic a USB webcam connected a machine without the request for immoderate adapters.

There’s nary built-in flash, but Canon includes a multi-function basking footwear for adding third-party solutions. The PowerShot V1 besides includes a three-stop ND filter, a headphone and microphone hack, HDMI, and a azygous SD paper slot.