A Week With the G10

The week is over and the G10 has gone home, so this concludes my week of playing with the Canon PowerShot G10.  Overall I feel it’s been a very successful experience. I’m not sure I’d buy one personally, it certainly could go places my SLR can’t, but the low light performance really isn’t there for me and it’s a bit on the small side for my hands.

That being said, I find that the G10 does quite well with in the limits of what it is. Would I want to give up my SLR for one? Not a chance. In fact, having picked up my SLR for the first time in a while–to shoot the images of the G10 accompanying this article–I felt very happy to have it back in my hands. The G10 is certainly a very nice P&S to have, and probably more advanced than most people buying point and shoots would need. The images are large and at low ISOs clean enough to be useible with out noise reduction. Other wise the image quality is satisfactory. The zoom lens is a little short for my tastes but plenty wide and actually plenty long enough for the vast majority of situations anyway.

The one thing I found amusing is that with the hot shoe you can pair the G10 with any of Canon’s current flashes, including the monstrous 580Ex II. Which brings us to the rather humorous, in my opinion at least, final look at the G10 with a 580Ex II strapped to it’s back.

As a side note, Really Right Stuff makes a proper custom fitted L-bracket for the G10 for photographers who use Acra-Swiss compatible quick release systems for their tripods.