#Canon powershot g1 x mark ii review iso

The built-in Wi-Fi enables wireless image transfer. And the buttons and dials feel responsive and well laid out. Compose and review shots using this Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II digital cameras 3' tilting LCD, which lets you find an ideal viewing angle and features a touch interface to simplify navigation of settings. Otherwise, I like the flip-and-twist LCD-it's bright and big-and though the optical viewfinder is quite small, it's useful to have. As a result, I frequently found myself scrolling around the options when I thought I was changing the shutter speed. Overall, I like the design, though the function button behavior can get a little frustrating: unlike other cameras, which automatically hide the menu when you press the shutter button, Canon's remains until you press the function button again.

#Canon powershot g1 x mark ii review iso

ISO 100 (expanded)/ 200 - ISO 6400/12,800 (expanded)īigger, heavier, and boxier than the G12 and with a pop-up rather than front-mounted flash, the G1 X nevertheless looks and feels quite similar to its older sibling. It means unlearning habits about lens settings and spending too much time jumping in and out of macro modes. More annoying, the camera can only autoswitch between macro and standard focus modes in complete Auto. Even the G12's lens focuses as close as 2 inches in normal mode. First, it can only focus as close as 7.9 inches, and that's in macro mode in standard focus, it's a more common 1.3 feet. First introduced in February 2014, Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II is a 13.0MP Large Sensor Compact camera with a 1.5-inch (18.7 x 14 mm ) sized CMOS sensor. The other is the lens' minimum focusing distance. It's about light constraints at reasonably short focal lengths.Īnd that's only one problem. This isn't a gripe about depth-of-field the larger sensor size of the G1 X allows for shallower DOF at narrower apertures than the smaller sensors in the Olympus and Fujifilm cameras. Here's the progression of maximum apertures available at the crossover focal lengths: Not only does that compare poorly with similar focal ranges on the less-expensive XZ-1 and Fujifilm X10, but it's worse in practice: it's only f2.8 at 28mm.

But more important, I expect it to be a lot faster than f5.8 at 112mm-equivalent. First, I'd expect a wider-than-f2.8 maximum aperture on an $800 camera.