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Powerful camcorder in a tiny package

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The Canon PowerShot TX1 is only as big as a typical digital camera, but it packs a high-quality camcorder inside its miniature frame.

At first glance, the PowerShot TX1's metallic finish looks suspiciously like one of the company's first compact digital cameras, the IXUS.

But a closer examination reveals a completely transformed product.

The lens comes out of the side of the camera and the 1.8-inch display flips open and swivels.

The design of the camera has one obvious advantage: the extra space gained by putting the lens on the side allowed Canon to put a 10x optical lens in the TX1, probably the biggest zoom on any compact camera.

The PowerShot offers HD (high definition) video (1280 x 720 pixels) at 30 frames per second (fps) - that's twice the resolution of VGA - or standard TV - quality that most digital cameras offer today.

It also allows 60fps video at the lower resolution of 320 x 240 pixels.

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