A Review of the Canon G10 Powershot
First impressions of the pro level powershot…..
I’ve just taken delivery of a Canon G10 Powershot camera. I’m a little late in buying one as its successor, the G11 is already on the market. But no matter, I’ve been thinking about one of these for a while and decided to take advantage of the drop in price and soon to be lack of availability.
So why buy a compact digital camera when I have a 5D mark one and mark two? Well, it’s compact!
The 5D’s with battery grips fitted are not cameras for the weak and feeble, they are rock solid and heavy especially with big lenses attached and although they take incredible pictures they require some portering skills and sometimes I need to travel light, especially next year (more of that in future posts)
What Canon have done with the G10 and G11 is to produce a camera which is aimed at amongst others professional photographers who want a small and effective back up camera ideal for travel photography and reportage work. For myself I needed something which I could take on my visits to the hotels and resorts I work in and not worry about looking after my main camera in a busy working environment like a professional kitchen.
The G10 came out to rave reviews and much excitement in the photographic media, Andy Rouse, a brilliant English wildlife photographer raved about it in an independant review and my favourite rock photographer, Steve Goudie also bought one for his work so that was good enough for me.
On first inspection I am delighted with what I have, it’s small, well built with solid controls that give you confidence in their durability. The LCD monitor is large and bright and the menu functions are well laid out and easy to navigate. For a compact it is loaded with features, 14.7 million pixels, a lens equivalent to 28-140mm, plenty of shooting modes such as night, kids and pets, macro, sports and face detection. There’s movie capability and built in image stabilisation, RAW and JPEG settings for greater freedom in processing.
I’ll post some images and expand the post as I use it, much of what I add will be applicable to the new G11 too.
Miles,
I’m very much looking forward to seeing some examples of the pictures from the G10 - especially to see how image quality compares to Canon DSLR camera.
It will be interesting to see how discernable the difference is when pictures are reduced in size for use on the internet etc
Am I going to have to buy one ?
Cheers
Rod
November 26, 2009 @ 8:23 am
Rod,
Reckon you might have to
Miles
November 26, 2009 @ 10:59 pm
Yeh mate the G10 is the dogs bollocks as long as in concerned,even though i use Nikon pro cameras for work ,Nikon dont have a compact as good as the G10,i was not tempted by the G11 as the body is more plastic based and ill leave the swivel screen for amateurs ,in my line of work this would end up getting snapped off..The G10 is great for low light,backstage and live work,can take the weather and the knocks and to me the best digi pro compact on the market..Rock and Roll all Night and party every day..Steve Goudie..
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July 26, 2010 @ 3:07 am
Steve,
Welcome to the blog and thanks for a great comment. Anyone reading this and wants a pro photographers opinion has just got one. What I like Steve for me is that I can carry it around in the kitchen and take quick photos of dishes in the middle of service which I look at later to see what I can improve on.
Anyone reading this should click on Steve’s name above and visit his site, he photographs the biggest names in entertainment for a living, look for him on Twitter, it’s a brilliant insight into a rock photographer’s life.
Thanks for stopping by Steve, you’ve given my blog street cred!!!
Best,
Miles
July 26, 2010 @ 8:18 am