Canon PowerShot G2 Reviews

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Canon PowerShot G2
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5 Reviews For Canon PowerShot G2

  • peterpantx 4th Jul 2005

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    Good Points: Solid and sophisticated like Canon's SLRs. It has point and shoot features as well as manual. Excenllent picture quality and flash lag time.


    Bad Points: Price and limitation of 30 seconds movie shooting per file.


    General comments: I have owned this camera for more than three years. I have no desires to upgrade this camera, as it is already very sophisticated and feature-packed. Occassionally, I will bring my other SLR (Canon Elan IIe) with me (along with G2) just because it allows me to zoom in my objects with 300mm telephoto lense. Aside from its excellent image quality and standard point and shoot features, I find this camera is particularly useful when I am not sure of the picture results due to lighting. This camera will automatically take pictures with +1 expo and -1 expo to let me choose the best one. I was so impressed to see the result of Cinderella Castle in Disney World at night. As I inidicated, the price is the downside. I can't complain much because I bought this camera when it first just came out. My other friends ended up paying for half of the price about one and half years later. Although I pointed out that this camera has limitation on movie mode, I ended up not using it that much. I truly believe that DV does this job better than still image camera, so most of time I use DV for movies.

  • John. 28th Jun 2003

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    This is my first digital camera and I was amazed when I saw the first shot. I've upgraded to the 10D now and passed the G2 onto my wife.

  • kc. 26th Mar 2003

    Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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    I can't begin to express my frustration and disappointment. My 2mega pixel Canon shoots better pictures. It's hit and miss with quality, mostly being miss!

    The real killer is you CAN NOT update their firmware...meaning no updates.

  • Julian Moore. Rank: Lance Corporal 7th Apr 2002

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    I have a couple of Canon 35mm SLR's and a stack of lenses and accessories, so perhaps the choice of the Canon Powershot G2 for digital is not so suprising... except this is not one of those with interchangeable lenses, so it was selected entirely on it s own merit.

    The G2 has been a complete delight - 4M pixel resolution (that's about 2200 x 1700) produces sharp clear images.

    I've used it extensively indoors and outdoors and haven't found anything that fazes it. Colour rendition is... I wa ...

  • Robert Harris. Rank: Lance Corporal 14th Nov 2001

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    I bought the Canon Powershot G2 with the 1GB Microdrive at the beginning of October. It's a terrific combination which allows the camera's remarkable abilities to be fully exploited. The Microdrive can store approx 500 images with superfine compression and highest resolution (approx 4 mega-pixels)and over 1500 images with fine compression and medium resolution (approx. 2 megapixels). Excellent for long distance travellers like me.

    In many respects the Canon Powershot G2 is similar to it's pre ...

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4.1 megapixel sensor creates 2,272 x 1,704 images for prints at 8 x 10 and beyond3x optical (plus 3.6x digital) zoom lens with autofocusIncluded 32 MB CompactFlash card holds 24 images at default reso more details...