Artistico
Active member
The G10 is as brilliant little camera that has a lot of things going for it.
I like travelling light, and with the G10 I finally feel I'm not compromising too much on image quality.
User friendliness is great, with hands-on knob controls where others leave you to search through menus while the lights are changing or your subject is moving away from the perfect moment you just saw.
I has a brilliant screen that makes judging exposure a breeze - not to mention adjusting it is as easy as pie with the compensation dial and the on-screen histogram.
High-ISO noise doesn't bother me for two reasons. One is that the truly excellent image stabiliser sometimes makes it possible to handhold at up to around 1/2 seconds(!), negating the need to increase sensitivity for non-moving subjects, and sometimes I like the film-grainy look of high-ISO noise - especially when processed through DXO which can preserve the details at he expense of more grain, but which then will look more film-like and, to me, aesthetically pleasing.
The camera is silent and inconspicuous - unlike an SLR with a huge grey-coloured lens on it that sometimes can attract too much and unwanted attention...
It might not be good enough to make me sell my 5D, but it gets really close to being that good...
Highly recommended.
Problems:
It has a few major flaws, the biggest being that you can't see the full resolution image on the screen when you zoom in during playback mode, therefore making it impossible to judge minor image blur, and I sometimes have to shoot a few extra shots when handholding at 1/10 or longer shutter speeds just in case.
Av mode doesn't allow longer shutter speeds than 1 second.
Resolution should have been around 10 megapixels, which is the effective resolution in any case, and this would have made it possible to get better tonality, latitude and noise characteristics as well as making smaller files.
I like travelling light, and with the G10 I finally feel I'm not compromising too much on image quality.
User friendliness is great, with hands-on knob controls where others leave you to search through menus while the lights are changing or your subject is moving away from the perfect moment you just saw.
I has a brilliant screen that makes judging exposure a breeze - not to mention adjusting it is as easy as pie with the compensation dial and the on-screen histogram.
High-ISO noise doesn't bother me for two reasons. One is that the truly excellent image stabiliser sometimes makes it possible to handhold at up to around 1/2 seconds(!), negating the need to increase sensitivity for non-moving subjects, and sometimes I like the film-grainy look of high-ISO noise - especially when processed through DXO which can preserve the details at he expense of more grain, but which then will look more film-like and, to me, aesthetically pleasing.
The camera is silent and inconspicuous - unlike an SLR with a huge grey-coloured lens on it that sometimes can attract too much and unwanted attention...
It might not be good enough to make me sell my 5D, but it gets really close to being that good...
Highly recommended.
Problems:
It has a few major flaws, the biggest being that you can't see the full resolution image on the screen when you zoom in during playback mode, therefore making it impossible to judge minor image blur, and I sometimes have to shoot a few extra shots when handholding at 1/10 or longer shutter speeds just in case.
Av mode doesn't allow longer shutter speeds than 1 second.
Resolution should have been around 10 megapixels, which is the effective resolution in any case, and this would have made it possible to get better tonality, latitude and noise characteristics as well as making smaller files.