Powershot G10 Review
Canon’s Powershot G10 offers a staggering 14.7 million pixels on its hi-def CCD sensor.
Pixel count isn’t the only indicator of quality, but in general more pixels is better and certainly gives you more cropping choice after the event.
The Canon A590IS model is more geared to amateurs whereas, the Powershot G10 is very much a prosumer model. It’s clear from the long list of features.
Featuring a wide angle lens of 28 m.m. and couples that with a 5x zoom. Optical Image Stabilisation helps you to keep the image sharp even at the long end of the zoom – pretty essential if you can’t hand-hold a camera as steadily as you used to. The image stabilisation feature should mean that more of your shots come out sharp.
The lcd monitor is a 3.0-inch Pure Color LCD II screen. That makes it much easier to line up your shots – no more squinting to see what’s on the screen. If you’ve never used a large lcd screen digital camera before then you’ll be astonished at just how much easier it makes life. The Canon Powershot offers a really beautiful display.
The famed Canon Digic 4 processor has been added. The DIGIC 4 offers faster operation and enhanced image quality – something we all appreciate.
Don’t forget that a digital camera needs some food and a camera that has extremely high resolution is going to need a lot of memory card to store its images. There’s usually a selection of well priced memory cards at places like www.digitalcamerafood.co.uk
That’s where cards like the sandisk 8gb sdhc secure digital card or the transcend 8gb sdhc card are so useful. An 8gb card will store a useful number of hi-res images and allow you to keep shooting for longer.
The Canon Powershot G10 is a stunning example of engineering and design.
You can safely say that it will be a more practical alternative to an SLR. It’s certainly not the smallest digital ‘compact’ on the market, it’s probably one of the best specified and well designed cameras available today.