Canon Powershot G1 3MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom
List Price: $799.99
Details
- Like-minded with Type I and II CompactFlash cards
- Ball-and-socket joint-mounted color LCD monitor
- On the same wave length with Canon EX-series Speedlite flashes
Description
x 6 MB CompactFlash English 1y pledge F/2.0-2.5Canon scales the heights of clarity with a state-of-the-art digital camera that delivers images of unprecedented prominence. This is a camera with enough advanced options to satLike most of Canon's PowerShot cortege, the G1 is designed to deliver great looking images with slightest fuss. While the other PowerShot models are obsessed with stuffing a mark camera into the smallest possible package, the G1 focuses on features, usability, and representation quality before size. We're not saying it's a large camera--in particulars, it's smaller than most manufacturers' compact models--but it's in any event a substantial jump in size from a Digital Elph.
The 3.3-megapixel CCD captures images at buyer-selectable resolutions of 2,048 x 1,536, 1,024 x 768, and 640 x 480--which means you can pit oneself against pictures for making detailed 8-by-10 prints as well as clicking snapshots for the Web and e-letters. The G1 also lets you choose between three varying degrees of JPEG smallness, or, when taking pictures at highest resolution, you can store images in the RAW set-up, which, unlike JPEG compression, is a lossless, and reversible, model of compression. RAW files are roughly one-third the size of equivalent Dispute files. They can only be read by Canon's included software, but they can be losslessly convinced and saved as TIFF files by your computer.
For those uninterested or uncultured in the more detailed mechanics of photography, the G1 can function like a aspect-and-shoot, automatically taking care of virtually every background. If, however, you're more interested in setting the camera's functions manually, the G1 is purely willing to accept your commands, allowing control onto every function on the camera. ISO can be set at speeds of 50, 100, 200, and 400, and the G1 in the same way features aperture and shutter priority modes. Manual focus can be employed, although Canon only recommends using it in tricky focus situations. AE/AF bolt allows you to set exposure and focus setting for a given scene, letting you recompose and speed without losing time. Other shooting modes comprise flash-exposure compensation; programmed control zones (picturization, landscape, etc.); movie mode; and slow shutter-forward mode, which opens the shutter for long periods of patch in low-light situations and applies noise reduction. Auto-expos bracketing takes three pictures, intentionally over- and comprised in-exposing the two extra shots to help capture the best visualize possible. The G1 has five different flash modes, including red-eye reduction, and is like-minded with all Canon EX-series Speedlite flashes. A macro mode rounds out the enclose.
No digital camera is complete without an LCD monitor, and here the G1 shines as good fettle. The 1.8-inch color monitor sits on a swivel mount. The examine rotates on two axes, flipping out to rest on the same plane as the behindhand of the camera, and also rotates up to 270 degrees. This versatility lets you point of view your shot from almost any angle or around corners; you can flush see yourself while you're taking a self-portrait. Best of all, because the G1's guard flips and swivels, you can store the camera with the monitor scan nestled safely against the body of the camera, protecting it from any scratches. The G1 comes with a USB refuge and cable, battery and AC adapter, 16 MB CompactFlash card, software, lens cap, and neck strap. For population with older systems, there is also a serial haven, but PC and Mac serial cables are sold separately.
