Canon PowerShot G2 Specifications
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| Street Price (US) | $ 899 | |
| Street Price (EU) | 2299 DM / € 1175 | |
| Body Material | Front magnesium alloy, back high-impact plastic | |
| CCD effective pixels |  |
4.0 megapixels |
| CCD size** | |
1/1.8" (0.556") |
| CCD Colour Filter Array | |
G - R - G - B |
| Max resolution | 2272 x 1704 (3.8 megapixels) | |
| Lower resolutions | • 1600 x 1200 • 1024 x 768 • 640 x 480 |
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| Image ratio w:h | 4:3 | |
| Image formats | |
• RAW • JPEG (EXIF) |
| Quality Levels | • Super-Fine • Fine • Normal |
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| Sensitivity equiv. | |
• Auto (ISO 50 - 100) • ISO 50 • ISO 100 • ISO 200 • ISO 400 |
| Lens Thread | With optional adapter, 58 mm | |
| Zoom wide (W) | |
34 mm |
| Zoom tele (T) | |
102 mm (3 x) |
| Lens Aperture | |
F2.0 - F2.5 |
| Digital zoom | |
Yes, Equiv. of 4.3x, 5.3x, 6.7x, 8.2x, 11x |
| Auto Focus | • Contrast detection • Continuous or Single AF • 3 selectable focus points |
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| AF Illumination lamp | |
Yes, visible light (white) |
| Manual Focus | |
6 cm (Wide) / 20 cm (Tele) - Infinity |
| Normal focus range | |
70 cm (27.6 in) - Infinity |
| Macro focus range | |
6 cm (2.4 in) - 70 cm (27.6 in) |
| Min shutter | |
Auto: 1/8 sec Program / Aperture Priority: 1 sec Shutter Priority / Manual: 15 sec |
| Max shutter | |
1/1000 sec |
| Noise reduction | Yes, for shutter speeds of 1.3 seconds or slower | |
| Metering | |
• Evaluative |
| Exposure adjustment | |
-2EV to +2EV in 1/3EV steps |
| Auto bracketing | |
• 3 images • 0.3 - 2.0 EV in 0.3 EV steps |
| Aperture priority | |
• Wide: F2.0, F2.2, F2.5, F2.8, F3.2, F3.5, F4.0, F4.5, F5.0,
F5.6, F6.3, F7.1, F8.0 |
| Shutter priority | |
15, 13, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3.2, 2.5, 2, 1.6, 1.3, 1, 0.8, 0.6, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/8, 1/10, 1/13, 1/15, 1/20, 1/25, 1/30, 1/40, 1/50, 1/60, 1/80, 1/100, 1/125, 1/160, 1/200, 1/250, 1/320, 1/400, 1/500, 1/640, 1/800, 1/1000 |
| Full manual | |
Yes |
| Exposure Modes | • Auto • Creative: • Program AE, Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, Manual • Image Control: • Pan-focus, Portrait, Landscape, Night scene, Colour Effects, Stitch • Movie |
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| White Balance | |
• Auto • Daylight • Cloudy • Tungsten • Fluorescent • Fluorescent High • Flash • Custom preset (Manual) |
| Continuous | |
• High speed: 2.5 fps, max
5 images • Normal: 1.5 fps, max 9 images (Large / Fine, LCD switched off) |
| Movie clip | • 320 x 240, 15 fps, max 30
secs (including audio) • 160 x 120, 15 fps, max 120 ses (including audio) |
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| Built-in Flash | Yes, fixed internal | |
| Flash Range |
• Wide: 0.7 - 4.5 m (2.3 - 14.8 ft) |
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| Flash modes |
• Auto |
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| Flash compensation | +/-2 EV in 0.3 EV steps | |
| External flash (via hot shoe) |
• Canon 220EX • Canon 420EX • Canon 550EX • Canon MR-14EX (Macro-Ring-Light) |
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| Tripod mount | Yes, metal | |
| Self-timer | Yes, 10 sec delay | |
| Remote control | Yes, supplied Infrared | |
| Video out | Yes, selectable NTSC / PAL | |
| Storage media | |
Compact Flash Type I or Type II (Microdrive supported) |
| Storage included | 32 MB Compact Flash Type I card | |
| Viewfinder | |
Optical with dioptre adjustment, approx. 84% frame coverage |
| LCD | |
1.8" TFT flip-out and twist, approx. 100% frame coverage |
| Playback zoom | Yes, 3x, 6x | |
| Operating system | Proprietary | |
| Connectivity | |
USB |
| Print Compliance | DPOF, Direct Print (Canon) | |
| Remote Capture | PC control via USB | |
| Battery | |
Yes, BP-511 Lithium-Ion Battery or BP-512 Lithium-Ion battery |
| Battery charger | |
Yes, supplied AC adapter / charger |
| Weight (inc. battery) | 510 g (1.1 lb) | |
| Dimensions (inc. grip) | 121 x 77 x 64 mm (4.8 x 3.0 x 2.5 in) |
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Click for glossary entry / help |
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This measuring system is a leftover from the days of video TUBES and has nothing to do with the surface area of the chip in a direct sense. The Edmund Scientific Optics catalog has a sidebar that completely backs up the idea. For instance, a "one inch" chip has a 16mm diagonal sensor array. A "one half inch" chip has an array of only 8mm in the diagonal. This means that the 1/1.8 = 0.555 inch measurement means NOTHING about the sensor array size. Unless they have changed the entire measurement system just for this chip, the actual sensor patch is 11% larger than the 8mm of a 1/2 chip or 8.88mm in diagonal. (Mark Schubin of Videography Magazine) |
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