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

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The best of both worlds!

I am a digital camera collector! I have the Canon rebel xti and wouldn't trade it for anything, but there are times when you need portability. I also have a canon powershot 790, love it, but needed some more pixels for extreme cropping. After a month of research it was between the G10 and the Nikon 6000. My previous experiences with Canon won out and I went with the G10. Out of box experience was perfect!! I shot about 100 photos, and was very happy! Sure, it isn't the fastest camera on earth and needs perfect light to stop movement, but I didn't need that, the Rebel can handle that! It is a perfect example of Canon's brillant true to life colors, and the extra pixels do allow me to close crop when needed. I also have the Panasonic Lumix FZ28 mainly for the optical zoom, and am amazed at the washed out colors of that compared to the G10. I am especially happy with the right on top exposure compensation dial... I use that often photographing black dogs in white snow, and it's great not to have to go inside to a menu to find it. Another great feature is the hotshoe... almost impossible to avoid red eye in the dogs with built in flashes, but using my speedlight is great! Finally, the auto white balance is right on... I am so used to doing an auto WB fix first thing in the software... didn't have to with any of the shots I took!!! I am going on a kayaking vacation soon and can't wait to use this gem of a camera!

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very happy to the quality and nice design. I just felt surprised to the original package. no seal , open like used before. I can not imagine that Canon packs the product like that.

A Nice Little Camera

I purchased this camera a few weeks ago. This was my first digital camera after years with my faithful Canon AE-1 (the film processing got expensive!). I am very satisfied with the camera. It is the first autofocus lense that I am truly satisfied with the response time--I leave the lense on continuous focus. It pays to spend time with the manual. The icons may be intuitive to someone with digital experience, but I found study helpful. It was also important to set up the default settings by stepping through the manual page by page. Also, I purchased the teleconverter attachment which I recommend to anyone seeking to extend the 5X range. It is important to set the camera to teleconverter to avoid vignetting. All in all, I have been pleased with the purchase.

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Crap software, but the camera is amazing!

Before I gush over the actual camera, let me get this out: I hate the software. I used Kodak's software for the last 4 years, and loved the simplicity of it. With Kodak, all you have to do is plug in the camera and go. All I want is to see my videos, see my photos, and easily crop the photos. Period.

The Canon software won't let me view my videos at all, even though there are no less than 4 separate Canon programs to install. None of those 4 programs allow me to view the video. One of the pieces of software is only for one kind of Canon camera, which I don't have, and the other two programs are basically the same thing. Neither of those have a crop button--really! I can mess with the colors and do all this fancy stuff but I can't crop.

So, basically, all the software is essentially useless for me after the photos get downloaded into the My Pictures file of my computer. Then I have to use Picassa or some other software. Although, when I took the memory card out of the Canon and put it into the Kodak, the Kodak software worked just fine, so I might just do that.

Anyway, other than crap software, the camera is amazing. Obviously, I wanted simple, but my husband wanted complicated. We both got what we wanted. I operated all of the features I wanted without touching the instruction manual. The anti-blur, face detection, and red-eye reducer are all automatic and work very well (you can turn them off if you want). You can easily turn the flash on or off. There is an easy Macro setting. Working the timer is also easy, and there is one timer that detects when all of the faces are looking at the camera before taking the picture. The many SCN settings are found by just turning the wheel. Best of all, this camera is super-fast. I can turn it on and take a picture almost as soon as I see what I want to photograph. Zooming is pretty fast, too.

Like I mentioned, though, my husband wanted complicated. He wanted to be able to adjust all the settings, including the aperture and a bunch of other things. He can. There are tons of settings that I carefully avoid and, for those people (like him) who know what all those settings mean, they can spend hours getting exactly the photo they want. My husband will have to work hard to outgrow the abilities of this camera, and I bet the software would work well for him, as it is definitely intended for someone more at his level than mine.

The photos and videos from the Canon work on Blogger just fine, and don't take any longer to upload, which was vital for me.

In summary, the camera and software are great for people who want a point-and-shoot with lots of capabilities, while the camera is equally great for people who want a fast, easy-to-use camera that gives you high-quality, crisp photos for printing or Blogging.

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Proprietary Batteries

Sigh. This looks like a wonderful camera, except (1) Canon has fallen prey to the Megapixel Marketing Myth, and (2) the proprietary $70 battery pack.

I get superb poster-size blowups from my 7 megapixel Canon S710. And I can carry around cheap rechargeable AA batteries, or pick up Duracells at any newsstand or grocery store in a pinch. But I covet some of the G-series features (flash hotshoe, metal body, SLR-like exposure dial, etc.).

I'd love to see Canon build a camera in the G10 form factor with AA batteries and a better (lower-pixel, lower-noise) sensor chip.

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