Canon Powershot Zoom digital monocular review


The Canon PowerShot Zoom is a bit confusing at first. Most of its features as a camera are equally well matched by your average phone and undoubtedly surpassed with almost any modern digital camera. You realize the camera’s point only once you start using the 400mm zoom.

Canon calls the PowerShot a monocular, but we find it’s better understood as a really small digital camera with the addition of a two-position zoom lens. This feature makes it a unique take on the monocular market. The lens is 100/400mm (equivalent) with an option for 800mm digital (not optical) zoom. Up to the 400mm length, the photo quality is undoubtedly respectable, but the photos we captured at the 800mm length were soft and couldn’t be considered anything more than just snaps. Due to the restrictions of its image sensor we found it to be unusable for astronomy, so we would recommend one of the other best monoculars that we’ve tested if you want to gaze at the night sky.

Canon PowerShot Zoom digital monocular review

Canon Powershot Zoom: Design

★★★

  • Closely stacked controls
  • Very small and compact
  • No water/dustproofing



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