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Canon PowerShot G11

By Alexandra Savvides on 19 August 2009

Replacing the popular G10, the G11 has a 10 megapixel sensor, a 2.8-inch variable-angle LCD screen, and a 28mm wide-angle lens with 5x optical zoom.

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  • Jared gave 9/10 on 21/10/2009 21:08 Report abuse

    • Good: The best compact I have ever used and it rivels my older DSLRs. Great photos in almost all situations. Full auto works like a charm. Photos great up to ISO 400, ISO 800-1600 very usable for everyday shooting. AWB works very well but goes very warm in mixed lighting. Swivel screen is great addition. Auto focus works great and is much faster then the LCD screen can show.
    • Bad: Manual controls a bit slow to respond to user input. Low light setting is fairly useless as the normal settings do far better. The swivel screen seems not as robust as it could be. Movie mode just SD.

    I'm not sure what to say but wow. 1 week, 400 photos and my DSLRs have just sat in my bag. This is deffinatly a photographers camera. The tilt and swivel screen works great for street photography, macro and just about everything else.

    By far the best images I have ever seen at high ISOs from compacts. I use Noise Ninja for noise removal and I have made good images all the way up to ISO 3200 which I have never seen from a compact. The in camera B/W setting surprised me by taking very good images straight out of the camera. Raw is Raw and for my main use of the camera I like the Jpg better. Speed of camera is very very good for a compact as well. I have to work at getting it to bog down with JPGs (Raw is much slower).

    The one thing I have noticed is that the Auto ISO pushes higher sooner then it needs to. I do wish it had more user controls that could set the ISO and Shutter speed like Nikon uses so it stays at lower ISOs longer. I find my self using the dials to set my ISOs and taking a second shot quite a bit more than expected because of this.

    I'm not a movie buff and other than recording a bug on my coffee mug, I probably will never use it again.

    Over all this is the best compact I have ever used. Noise control is much better than expected and rivals my older DSLRs. Add a good Noise reduction program (Noise Ninja, Nik, etc) and this camera comes very close to DSLR land at similar ISOs.

    I use this mainly as a "travel" or "street" camera and it handles almost everything I throw at it. Low light is great. High contrast - works great. Auto focus is quick enough for just about everything. It does not replace my DSLR but it has replaced every other camera I own.

  • Karl gave a review on 02/09/2009 22:26 Report abuse

    The ISO 1600 pics from this camera look quite promising.

    Better than all compacts, yet not as good as dSLRs (obviously).

    Too bad the pics have been taken down, but Canon claims that those pics are not from the final version of the G11, and we may expect something better still. :)

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