Canon G11 Review: Makes You Feel Like a Real Photographer (Almost)

It ’s fat . It ’s $ 500 . It take fantastic photograph .

The G11 is Canon ’s top - of - the - line point - and - shoot . It occupy a sorta unusual fleck , towering over the median point - and - inject in fundamentally every metric — image lineament , size , weight and price — but seat just below entrance - grade DSLRs and more recently , micro four thirds cameras .

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So , there are two ways to look at the G11 : It ’s an awe-inspiring street camera . More discreet than a DSLR , but more powerful than a run - of - the - mill point - and - shoot . You ca n’t stuff it in your denim pouch , but that ’s okay , because you want to sling it over your shoulder anyways . The other way is that you may buy a more various entry - level DSLR that ’s not much larger for around the same price , specially if you step back a generation or so .

It ’s all about your precedency .

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Everything about this photographic camera is just — upstanding . The full - metallic element jacket make it palpate indestructible , while the shape evokes the Hellenic camera you feel like you ’re supposed to be taking pic with . It ’s thick , remarkably so , in part because of the riff - out swivel LCD silver screen . And it ’s definitely more along the line of work of a range finder - flair tv camera than a distinctive spot - and - shoot .

The real magic of this photographic camera lies in the consecrate ascendance dials . You ’ll fine three on top — exposure compensation , ISO speed , and shooting style . They experience cramped and diminutive , at first , but the pushover they make as as you revolve them is surprisingly cryptic and substantial . make these configurations at your fingerbreadth at all clip is so much of why the G11 find like a television camera that ’s a step above point - and - shoots , a tool for creating photographs .

The back telephone dial is the most frustrative part of controlling the camera — a ring surrounds a four - path d - pad with a clit in the center . Ultimately , you lift up beseech buttons on the d - pad when you ’re trying to rotate the telephone dial to adjust shutter speed or aperture , or merely pressing the untimely button because it ’s so small . The bill of fare scheme , otherwise , is a pretty standard Canon setup , which looks a lot like the G10’s — it ’s not dead simple , but it ’s not overly complicated either , and a couple minute of arc of fiddle will reveal all of its arcanum .

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The viewfinder is absolutely depressing . I want to apply it , ill . It just feels intrinsically wrong to retain a tv camera of this caliber out in front of me to sprout , not up to my orb . Meanwhile , the G11 ’s finder is so small , and the coverage is so bad ( you may see the genus Lens through it ! ) , that it ’s nigh useless , like taste to indite through a pinhole .

One of the shot mode , quickshot , sounds like a good idea on paper , but is ruined by this finder . The photographic camera perpetually adjusts parameters while waiting for you to take the photo , so you may fire off immediately without worrying about missing the shot . unluckily , you have to expend the minuscule viewfinder in quickshot , and I thread up botching far more picture than I did nailing them .

So , you ’re moderately trapped to using the seemly flip over - out swivel LCD presentation . Honestly , I probably would ’ve preferred the static - but - larger 3 - inch version on the G10 , to the 2.8 - inch , 461,000 - dot display on the G11 .

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The LCD is really bright , though , and utterly usable in direct sunlight , with a spacious take in slant to boot . But the video provender is not quite nippy enough on it to use it for manual focusing — in this style , a zoomed in box appears in the center of the display as you spin the back telephone dial to bring it into nidus . The experience of focus becomes a big iPhone secret plan .

Can we talk about the photos please?

With the G11 , Canon force the bold maneuver of cutting megapixels — to 10 , from 14 on the G10 — in rescript to get better quality and low - light performance . It was the right move . Low - light images are definitely improved , and more detail is preserved up through ISO 800 . crack at ISO 1600 are definitely operable at web resolutions , which is pretty impressive for a stocky camera . You should remain away from the special “ low light ” shot style , though , which cuts the size of it of pictures in half to judge to pull every ounce of light possible — it produced uniformly defective characterization .

The G11 has a wide - slant rapid climb lens with the same basic specs as the G10 , starting at 28 mm and going up to 140 mm , which is versatile enough to shoot just about anything you ’d want . I ’m not sure , however , if it correctssome of the problemsat the wide - end with the macro mode , though , since I did n’t have a G10 to compare it with .

The runthrough of the ISO grasp goes a couple elbow room — on programmed automobile , letting the camera figure out what to make of the ISO setting I picked , and then another set where I dictated shutter stop number , so you may see how much you realise ( or suffer , depending on your point of view ) as you ratchet up the ISO place setting .

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Like past G series camera , you may blast in RAW , but if you do , you ’re stuck with using Canon ’s software to process it for the time being . In the full sampling gallery above , I ’ve marked the handful shoot in RAW .

In a domain where phones and gadgets the size of it of a giant plurality of Juicy Fruit shoot 720p , the fact that video recording ’s set to 640×480 resolution on such a sonsy camera get a big frowny face . But , the video recording the G11 produce at that result is generally fantabulous ( just compare tothe video - shootin ’ iPod nano ) . That ’s because it ’s wad with data point — the bitrate averages around 10Mbps , which is more thanthe Flip Mino HD , at 9Mbps for 720p television . That ’s why it face so vivacious compared to a band of the 720p video out there . certain , 720p out of this would be prissy , but I ’d take VGA video that look great over HD television that looks like bullshit .

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Okay, but do I buy it?

I like this camera a lot . It ’s what I ’d hit for whenever I would n’t feel like tugging along a honkin ’ DSLR , and I ’d feel like I was n’t sacrifice too much . The real question , I mean , it how it stacks up against Panasonic ’s Lumix LX3 , which is in the same demographic — a lauded $ 500 point - and - shoot — andoutgunned the G10 in many esteem ( though the G10 tried to cram 14 megapixels onto the same - sized sensor the G11 only rack 10 megapixels onto ) . Theslightly cheesy S90offers the same sensor as the G11 as well , and inside of a pocket-size body — though you lose fringe benefit like the dedicated controller dials and a view finder , as far as that ’s a fringe benefit on the G11 .

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If you do buy the G11 , you wo n’t repent it — you’ll be too busy taking picture .

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