Canon Powershot G10 14.7MP Digital Camera with 5x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom

Canon Powershot G10 14.7MP Digital Camera with 5x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom

Great camera no matter what!

I was hoping to find a camera that felt like a camera, handled more like a digital SLR, but was still highly portable. I researched and researched several and kept coming back to the G10. I read reviews from every camera rating service I could find and then I read the reviews by the typical user. I took this very seriously having already purchased two pocket-sized digitals which were "okay," but not what I wanted and in my job I have experience with the Nikon D70, D90, and D40 and didn't want a full-sized DSLR. In the end, I decided that even if the camera produced "noise" above ISO 200--it was the camera for me. So, I plucked down my credit card to Amazon and ordered last week. It came a few days later and this weekend I got to spend several hours snapping away. I will say I am SOLD on this camera. While I'm not a professional, I do quite a bit of photography as part of my job. I made the right choice. Thanks Canon.

The joy of manual control

The Canon G10 is a wonderful, powerful point and shoot camera with full manual control. It combines a great mix of attributes that add up to a fantastic camera to carry everywhere. I have been toting it all over Manhattan and have shot hundreds of pictures now. Having the creative control to set aperture and shutter speed allows one to fine tune exposure in a way that has not really been possible with point and shoots. The fact that it shoots large raw files is an added bonus. I am a little put out with Adobe for not including G10 support in a version of camera raw that works with CS3. Grrrrr. It is really nice to be able to work a raw file and have the same flexibility that I do with the files from my D200. The battery seems to have been conjured up by the enegizer bunny, it just keeps going and going. It literally will go for hundreds of shots between charges. The control layout also works very well. The exposure compensation dial on the left side is so easy to manipulate when you are shooting in either full auto, aperture priority, or shutter priority. ISO and shooting mode on the right are also easy to access. The controls all feel very solid and provide positive feedback as they are manipulated. The camera fits nicely in a coat pocket and I recommend the Kata DP 415 belt pouch as an alternative. This camera is perfect for a photographer looking for creative control and best in class image quality. The only people I would advise to steer away from this model are those for whom size is a much bigger priority than image quality. If you are just a casual shooter looking for a snap shooter there are probably better alternatives.

Fantastic

This camera takes wonderful pictures, and does not have the bulk of a DSLR. The outdoor pictures are professional quality - the indoor pictures are still very good. My only complaint would be that the flash on this camera leaves indoor pictures with something to be desired.

G10 - better than my Konica Hexar, only digital!

I have spent hours fooling around with this camera, taking pictures, checking the manual, taking more pictures, etc. All the stuff in the manual makes the camera seem overly complex, but if the more you mess with it the more it all makes perfect sense. Meanwhile, the pictures are great! Got a nice picture of Zeke, my 11-yr old Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and my pal Williamson, a "pro-sumer" photog, said that the picture actually made Zeke look young. I can take decent pictures using the large LCD display without having to use my grampa glasses. Big improvement over the postage stamp display on my Minolta DiMage X, which I have been using for the last few years. Man, I can hardly wait to get this thing out on some motorcycle rides. It's easy to change the picture resolution. I'll run it at about 1 Mb for general shooting, and then bump it to the highest rez .jpg for pictures where we all line our bikes up and have some mountain in the background. I like this much better than my wife's Nikon D70S. Seeya ATB

Controversial and promising.

Bought this camera in a BEST BUY store in lower broadway here in Manhattan. That was a very silly decision of me to buy it in that store. I will get back to this a little later. I had great hope for this camera as i shoot a lot of macros of jewelry and fine watches. Previous cameras were either lost or given as a gift so i decided to buy this G10. I also considered a Canon XSI which would produce the best in-door pictures with its big sensor and sharp optics if bought seperately. Clearly i opted for this one trying to get something compact for carrying aroung in a bag on a day-to-day basis. My verdict? I`m greatly disappointed. I chose a P-mode and tried to adjust things in a camera settings. My first disappointment was when i didn`t find a Sharpness setting. That`s too bad, then i couldnt find a contrast mode... Was that for real, i kept asking myself. Ok, lets give it a try. All the pictures i took indoors came out flat, dim and ugly. Even compared to my previous Lumix fx8 that i gave to my father on a trip overseas were bad enough. Panasonic simply beats G10 by a margin. I returned the camera even though they charged me 15% of restocking fee. That was my fault, i should have bought in a dedicated camera store like Broadway 17St or J&R... I lost roughly 75$$ but still was eager to return it. Now i`m exploring reviews of Panasonic LX3, i will probably go for it.

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