Canon PowerShot G10 Digital Camera Review

Canon PowerShot G10

Digital Camera Review

Sep 22, 2008 - By Alfredo Padilla
The Canon PowerShot G10 is a high-end 14.7-megapixel compact point-and-shoot with a 5x zoom, aimed squarely at advanced photographers who want a plethora of manual controls and support for RAW in a relatively small form factor. Larger than most compacts, and pricier at $499.99, the G10 is pockmarked with the buttons and dials that those advanced shooters will love. Those who aren't as advanced will find it confusing.
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Auto Mode
Auto mode puts most of the advanced options available with the Canon PowerShot G10 beyond your control. Manual Focus, aperture and shutter settings along with metering options are no longer available. Many of the options found under the Function Set menu are not available, with Quality and Size the only ones still functional. Setting white balance manually is not available in Auto Mode either. You can still make adjustments to Exposure Compensation and ISO using the dedicated dials.

Movie Mode
The Canon PowerShot G10 is capable of recording 640 x 480 video at 30fps, which is a pretty typical quality for a point and shoot. We're starting to see cheaper point and shoots with support for 720p video, so VGA is just slightly disappointing on a high-end device like the G10. When recording video you can use some advanced features like manual focus, exposure compensation and ISO control, however only automatic exposure settings are available. In the Function Set menu you'll find controls for White Balance, My Colors, ND Filter and Size. If you want to save some memory you can drop down to a 320 x 240 pixel at 30fps.

Drive / Burst Mode
Burst mode settings are found by pressing Down on the 4-way control. Here you can choose from Continuous and Continuous Auto Focus mode.

Playback Mode
You enter playback mode by hitting the Playback button found just above the top left of the LCD display. When in playback mode you can move between photos using left/right on the 4-way. You can also rotate the dial to quickly scroll through a thumbnail view of your photos, with three visible at any one time. You can trash images by hitting the dedicated delete button just above and to the left of the 4-way, while the button above and to the right will allow you to jump to a specific date, category, folder, or advance by ten or one hundred images at a time.

Custom Image Presets
Unlike lower-end point and shoot cameras the G10 does not put every scene mode on the mode dial. Instead there is one dial setting for all scene modes. Once there you can move between scene modes by using the rotating dial around the 4-way controller. The available scene modes are ISO 3200, Color Accent, Color Swap, Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Sports, Night Snapshot, Kids & Pets, Indoor, Sunset, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium and Underwater.

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