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Is G1X MkIII a great lightweight hiking /landscape/ travel camera?

Started Feb 13, 2020 | Discussions thread
nolten Contributing Member • Posts: 850
Re: Is G1X MkIII a great lightweight hiking /landscape/ travel camera?

Re-reading your post I see you had the original G1X so I'll specifically contrast features to that one. The original took really nice images but was slow in operation, menus, AF, frame rate, all of it. The G1X3 fixes all of that. Its fast, responsive and user friendly. Specifically it has on-sensor dual pixel AF which means its using faster phase detect AF instead of the slower contrast detect. The frame rate has increased from 3 or 4 to 7 FPS. It can actually track objects now. The pixel count has increased from 14 to 24 and the aspect ratio has changed from 4:3 to 3:2. I often crop my images to 16:9 to match my computer screen and HD TV and the 3:2 aspect ratio means I lose less image data in the process.

The G1X3 adds an electronic viewfinder instead of the rangefinder view of the lens in the original. The video capabilities are much improved including extra video stabilization and faster frame rates. No 4K though. It retains the useful exposure compensation dial, flip screen and built-in neutral density filter. The 3 can connect to your cell phone via bluetooth and download GPS info to geotag your photos. This is a bit fussy though. The cell phone can act as a remote trigger using bluetooth. It also has the full Wifi remote capability. Its also smaller, lighter and weather sealed. Its underwater housing is more the size of the G10's rather than the quite large original G1X's.

Hope this helps and I haven't run on too much.

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Canon G1 X III Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Canon EOS 90D Canon EOS M6 II
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