Canon PowerShot G5

Opinion: I received this camera right before a week long vacation to Yosemite. In general, I absolutely love the camera. It's easy enough to use for my wife to snap quick photos, and has all the manual controls I like to play with. I was able to take stunning pictures in full auto mode. Excellent detail and color in almost every case.

Only bad thing was a battery problem that caused the camera to go completely dead intermittently. In some cases, ejecting the battery and reinserting it fixed the problem and sometimes not. It was frustrating at times.

Opinion: Great camera the pics are so sharp and the 5mp does a great job...this camera will save me from spending silly money on a D-SLR meantime...as so far the "D" in SLR stands for DUFF...the only gripe I have is that Canon expect us to leave the camera "somewhere" to be connected to a DC lead to re-charge the battery, sorry but this is not satusfactory, most of us wouls prefer to spend £40 more to get an independant charger as it happens I got a charger and spare batt for £45, see below.

Opinion: G2 owner to G5 owner in last week,the image can only be described as big jump forward after using the camera in the (Cotwolds) England at the weekend, camera faster in use, lens, 140mm zoom adds more flexibly,solfware improved, the black finish has already been admired & suits the camera, A3 size printing using a epson printer gives fantastic sharpness & color, the G2 was good, but this a credit to canon people, was waiting for G2 upgrade & this G5 was worth the wait like so many other people out there.

Opinion: Excellent camera. Images very sharp, and very good detail when using ISO 50 and SuperFine. Lot's of functions and settings that makes this camera very similar to a Canon EOS SLR.

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