Canon Powershot G11 Features
The Canon Powershot G11 is an advanced digital camera. It has manual exposure settings, plus manual focusing. Images can be captured in RAW and there is a 2.8 inch LCD screen that pulls out away from the body and can be twisted round.
The Powershot G11 has 10 megapixels and a 5x wide angle zoom lens. The focal length of the lens is equivalent to 28 - 140mm in 35mm format. 4x digital zoom is also available.
Basics
- Special resolution for widescreen television playback
- Red-Eye Correction
- Image Stabilisation
- Self Timer: 2 or 10 second delay
- Macro Mode: 1cm
- Sensor Size: 1/1.7 inches
- Colour Effects: Vivid, Neutral, Sepia, Black & White, Positive Film, Lighter Skin Tone, Darker Skin Tone, Vivid Blue, Vivid Green, Vivid Red, Custom Color
LCD Screen and Viewfinder
The Powershot G11 is one of what is now a very small number of compact digital cameras to offer an optical viewfinder.
The LCD monitor is 2.8 inches in size. The screen is made up of around 461,000 dots. I found the screen to have excellent definition and was very easy to view. The screen can be pulled away from the body and twisted round to give comfortable viewing when photographing at awkward angles.
Flash
The Powershot G11 gives you a number of options for controlling flash. These include modes of Auto, Manual Flash On / Off , slow sync speed (Fastest speed 1/2000 sec.) Red-Eye Reduction, Flash Exposure Compensation (+/- 2 EV in 1/3 stop increments) Face Detection FE, Safety FE and Flash Exposure Lock.
The power of the flash can be manually adjusted and Second Curtain Synchronisation is available too.
The range of the flash unit is 7m. This falls to 4m when the lens is zoomed in. You can increase flash power by buying an external flash unit (Canon High Power Flash HF-DC1). The Powershot G11 is also compatible with a range of Canon Speedlites.
Scene Modes
There are a number of preset scene modes. These are: Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Sports, Night Snapshot, Kids & Pets, Indoor, Sunset, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium, Underwater, Color Accent, Color Swap and Stitch Assist.
Movies
You can shoot short, TV quality movies with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. The top recording speed is 30 frames per second. Sound can be recorded and zoom can be applied before shooting.
Advanced Features
Among the more advanced features are:
- Maximum Aperture: f/2.8 - f/4.5
- Evaluative (linked to Face Detection AF frame), Centre-weighted average, Spot (centre or linked to Face Detection AF or FlexiZone AF frame)
- AE Lock
- ISO Sensitivity: AUTO, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200
- Exposure Compensation: +/- 2 EV in 1/3 stop increments
- Shutter Speeds: 15 - 1/4000 seconds
- White Balance: Auto (including Face Detection WB), Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Flash, Underwater, Custom1, Custom2. White Balance Correction
- Continuous Shooting: Approx. 1.1 shots/sec until card full
- Auto Exposure Bracketing: 1/3 - 2 EV in 1/3 stop increments
- Full Manual Exposure
- Shutter Priority
- Aperture Priority
- Manual Focus
- Focus Bracketing
Computer - Printers - Television
Canon supplies the necessary cables and software to connect the Powershot G11 to a television, computer and PictBridge compatible printer.
Accessories
Canon make a waterproof case for the Powershot G11. It is the WP-DC34. It is waterproof to depths of 40m. You may also be interested in a remote control switch (RS-60E3) and a 1.4x tele converter (TC-DC58D). To use the tele converter you will also need a lens adapter (LA-DC58K).
