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Canon PowerShot G5
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5 Reviews For Canon PowerShot G5

  • tony lockley 19th Feb 2009

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    My Canon Powershot G5 is robust, very reliable, excellent results combined with a tremendous battery life. Still going strong after 5 years of regular use. The fact that you remove the lens surround and replace it with additonal lens and or filter housing is an added bonus. Works well with a dedicated flash unit too - on the hot shoe.
    It's a little slow by 2009 standards and the rotating screen is also smaller than you'd get now, but after 5 years of of total reliability it has showed the value of paying that little bit more in the first instance

  • twospoonsphoto Rank: Corporal 27th Sep 2004

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    This is my grab and go camera, I shoot with a big rig Nikon D100 for serious stuff. This little powerhouse can sometimes put the D100 to shame. The Canon PowerShot G5 is compact, rugged, and trustworthy - it won't let you down. The battery seems to go on and on. The colors are really nice, the camera has a bit of sharpening and some enhancement of saturation built in (adjstable) and the color are warm. White balance seems to work on auto pretty well. Comes with a pitifully small 32 MB CF car ...

  • zj Rank: Lance Corporal 5th Jun 2004

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    USE - casual social snaps, adventure holiday landscapes, nature photography

    I've had the Canon PowerShot G5 Digital Camera for about 8 months now and have generally been delighted with it. It's flexible with a really useful range of program / custom modes as well as a reliable auto mode. The build quality is reassuringly solid (apart from the lens cap which falls off at the drop of a hat)and the multi-positionable TFT is very readable under most conditions. The controls are sensibly placed an ...

  • S2KCA Rank: Corporal 5th May 2004

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    The Canon PowerShot G5 is my second digital camera. Like a lot of people I bought a simple 2Mp camera first to see how I would use it.

    Many fun snap shots and disappointing prints later I knew I needed a 'real' digital camera.

    I chose Canon because I have found their products to be robust and high quality - if not the best features / price balance.

    The G5 doesn't disappoint. In average conditions the photos are excellent. Most of the time I use it as point and shoot. When things get ...

  • pnadin Rank: Colonel 2nd Sep 2003

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    The Canon PowerShot G5 is a solid Digital Camera that looks great and takes very sharp photos with well balanced colours.

    This camera is critisized for having chromatic abberations (purple fringing around bright white parts) but I have not found this to be noticable so far.

    The G5 is also critisized for the being able to see the lens through the viewfinder. I expect this is a deliberate attempt by canon to reduce parralax by moving the viewfinder closer to the lens.

    Takes amazing photog ...

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5 megapixel sensor (2592 x 1944 pixels) for enlargements up to 20 x 30 inches4.1x optical plus 3.6x digital (15x) zoom lens with autofocusRotating/flip 1.8-inch LCD; up to 3-minute video capture with more details...