Canon’s PowerShot Zoom is like a pocket telescope that takes photos - The Verge

Canon has announced the PowerShot Zoom, an unusual camera that’s more like a digital monocular than a point-and-shoot.

The company has been showing off the idea for a while and recently crowdfunded it in Japan; now it’s coming to the US.

The PowerShot Zoom is a tiny device with an electronic viewfinder, a 1/3-inch 12-megapixel sensor, and two switchable equivalent focal lengths of 100mm and 400mm with a digital zoom up to 800mm.