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Summary: Great for landscapes, not so great for pets and such
Review: The Canon G2 gives amazing color. Get a good canon printer like the i950 and you'll get amazing prints. It does black and white very well and gives great bright colors in landscape photos. My only real complaint is it's super slow. I upgraded from the Toshiba M4 2.1 megapixel camera and I honestly wish that I'd kept it too. The Toshiba, while three years older than the canon caught better candid shots. I find that when using my Canon I cannot capture good candids of people or animals, it's so slow that the subject moves before it records the scene. Super slow. It hesitates all of the time and the red eye flash alerts your subject that you are there, totally ruining the picture. I'm either looking at buying a Canon 10D or buying back my old M4 for now.
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Summary: What a camera!
Review: Honestly, this is an incredible camera. Takes great quiality pictures, along with many awesome special options and effects that you can add. Pretty much the only thing I don't like about it is how you connect the usb cable and power cord in, kind of a stupid design, but not really a big thing, otherwise the camera is great!!!
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Summary: Great camera, if you learn to use it
Review: I like my Canon G2's "stealth mode." Its f/2 lens shoots in low light without a flash. Other digital cameras have an f/2.8 lens, requiring twice the light. Plus the viewscreen flips out and rotates. I can put the camera on the floor, against a wall, on a glass on a table, etc. allowing me to shoot at slow shutter speeds without a tripod. And because I'm not holding the camera to my eye, subjects don't realize I'm shooting pictures. Lastly, the camera is completely silent. Candid shots vs. posed pictures look completely different. Posed, people make faces, stick out their tongues, etc. Or they refuse to let me take pictures. In contrast, in candid shots people look natural.Then after I take the pictures, everyone wants to look at the pictures. This makes you popular at parties. Even the people who said they hate pictures of themselves want to look through the shots, and they love the pictures! I feel like saying, "Duh, if you stick out your tongue and scrunch up your face when you pose for a photo, you'll hate the pictures of yourself!" After using the Canon G2 you become aware of how obtrusive other cameras are: flashes going off, the loud snap of a 35mm camera, etc. I also like the video mode. It takes pretty good 30-second videos, with sound. And, again, people don't react the way they react to someone shoving a video camcorder in their face. They ignore the little camcorder, and then are delighted to watch the video. I like the "continuous" or "motor drive" mode, which takes up to 2.5 frames per second. For sports this is essential. For portraits it's useful: you tell the subject to smile, and you get a dozen shots to pick from, of every stage of the smile. The "macro" mode makes close-ups of little things easy. I also like that shooting hundreds of photos is free! The battery has never run out, and recharges quickly. But my 256MB card is too small. I'm upgrading to a 1GB card. As you learn to use this camera, you'll find yourself shooting far more pictures than you did with other cameras. I've used my G2 heavily for almost a year, and it has never broken down. My complaints about the G2: - The "AUTO" and "P" modes should not be used. These set the shutter speed at 1/640th of a second. This is much faster than is necessary, diminishing your depth of field, using the flash unnecessarily, etc. Instead, I taped a reminder to the back of my camera, saying to use aperture priority at f/2 and 400 ISO in very low light, aperture priority at f/2 and ISO "AUTO" (50 to 100) in low light, shutter priority at 1/125 and ISO "AUTO" in medium light; and aperture priority at f/8 and ISO 50 in bright light. - The "auto" white balance should also be avoided. It often looks bad, often very bad. The manual settings (sunlight, tungsten, etc.) are easy to use and look great. I never need to use the manual white balance. - Using autofocus and autoexposure result in a half-second lag between pressing the shutter release and taking the picture. You can get around this by using the "continuous" mode, or using manual settings. - The G2's 34-104mm lens is adequate for 95% of my shooting, but there are times I've wanted a longer telephoto lens. - 4 megapixels isn't as good as a pro 35mm camera. For 95% of my shooting it's adequate, but sometimes I wish I had 5 or 6 megapixels. - 400 ISO is adequate for 95% of my shooting, but sometimes I've wanted more film speed. All in all, the G2 does 95% of what the "pro" cameras do, and does lots of things the pro cameras don't do -- such as not being obtrusive, or too heavy to carry around. Weighing these pros and cons, I'd take my G2 over the "pro" SLRs.
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Thomas David Kehoe, author of "Hearts and Minds: How Our Brains Are Hardwired for Relationships"
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Summary: Easy and Fun Digital Camera
Review: I've had this camera for over a year and have found it to be an excellent camera. It's easy to use as far as the basics are concerned. There seems to be every feature imaginable for an amateur picture taker like myself. There are many features I haven't even touched on yet. The pictures come out crisp and clear. It's easy to connect the camera to the computer too.
I also love the digital viewer because it moves in every direction. I've taken pictures with the camera over my head and they came out great.
However, there are a couple of minuses....
It ony comes with a 32MB flash card, so the first thing you need as a larger one. At this point I'd suggest a 256MB or 512MB.
It has red-eye reduction but it doesn't work very well. I think it works like most non single lens reflex cameras with an internal flash. I ended up buying a Canon external flash that connects to the hot shoe on top of the camera (Glad this camera has the hot shoe). This adds a lot of weight, but the indoor pictures come out great with NO red eye.
I would've given this camera 5 stars if not for these two issues.
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Summary: Great digital camera
Review: I'll keep it short; this is a great camera and yeilds excelent pictures. It is easy to use in the "point & shoot" modes but also alows for flexibility if you want to go manual and get creative. The photos look every bit as good as film in a 5 x 7 format (considering that you use a good imaging equipment). This says it all.... We took our photos down to the local photo shop to have them re=printed on high quality paper and the guy who owns the shop said that these were the best digital photos he's ever seen. He asked my wife to give him the make and model number so he could check out the camera more.
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Summary: A fantastic photo friend for photographers
Review: I've used my Powershot G2 for about a year now and love it. The picture quality is superb. I also consider the G2's support for an external flash a must in a digital camera. This wonderful 4-megapixel camera works very well with the SpeedLight 420EX. And you will be able to print out 8 x 10 photos that show remarkable detail. Enjoy!
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Summary: My First Digital Camera-I Really Liked It
Review: I really like this camera. It is my first digital camera. It took some getting used to. I have been using my Nikon 35mm SLR for about 35 Years. With my new Canon, I had to get used to looking into a paralex viewfinder, get used to the LCD screen to try and compose my pictures and digesting the two manuals,the software guide and owners manual which took a few 2 hours sittings. It was lucky for me to have a basic understanding of computers and electronics to understand everything in the manuals. However, having said the above, I am very happy with my new Canon Powershot G2. One last thing, every time I go back to the Amazon Canon website, the price keeps getting lower. I know that two more powershot editions have come out since the G2, but I didn't want to have my camera sell out and I couldn't afford to buy the G3 nor the G5.
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Summary: Simple to use, but not a first time camera!
Review: I got this camera approx April 2002, same camera, but a limited edition that was black and looks more like a traditional 35mm camera. The camera functions well, and takes good pictures, but if this is your first camera I would look elsewhere. If you are looking at getting into higher level photography however, this might be a good place to start. It's digital, so you don't have to pay the high costs of developing, and the point and shoot function actually takes really good pictures, so if you are still learning, but see something you want to take a picture of, you can. This camera presents the best of both worlds. It is simple to use in the plain point-and-shoot mode, but it also has all the bells and whistles of a traditional 35mm camera. You can choose your own fstop and aperture, and choose to shoot black and white. There is also a neat function in this camera for panoramics. It comes with a photostiching program, and the camera has a panoramic mode, where the viewscreen shows pictures side by side as you take them so you can ensure you don't miss any of the panorama. When you take photos in this mode, the camera also labels the files with tags of "_a" "_b" etc, after the file number, so that you know they are part of one panoramic shot. All in all, I have been very pleased with this camera, because I like to take beautiful pictures, but am not a pro and can't justify [the price] for my camera. This camera gives you all the options you want, and with the largest pixel setting, the photograph you take will print out larger than an 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of paper. ***Warning:*** If you plan on taking a lot(more than 50)of the largest size pictures at one time, buy at least one 128 MB memory card. You will be glad you did.
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Summary: Outstanding camera
Review: I bought this camera with snapshots of our almost-here new baby in mind. As this was my first digital camera, I figured I'd better practice taking pictures with it before she got here, so I started shooting flowers, insects, whatever was around. Unbelievable. I have never owned anything but basic point-and-shoot cameras (in fact, a significant percentage of the pictures I've taken in my life have been through disposable cameras!) and have never been much into taqking "artsy" pictures, but this thing made me look like a pro right out of the box. While the camera will do everything for you if you like, it also allows for manual control of essentially all of the things that "shutterbugs" play with (ie: focus, exposure, f-stop, lenses, filters). I am NOTHING LIKE an afficianado, but this camera has spurred my interest in the hobby --- and allowed me the flexibility to play with the settings as I learn. Did I mention it takes excellent pictures out of the box? Having done a fair amount of research before buying this---including talking to a lot of folks who have forgotten a lot more about cameras than I will ever know--- I am of the opinion that this is far and away the best value in digital cameras available in this range.
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Summary: GOOD vs. bad
Review: GOOD THINGS:
*the battery: last long, charges fast
*picture quality: Best ever
*came with all that was needed [others don't]
*zoom: GREAT [can zoom on pictures already taken]
* looks cool
BAD THINGS:
-CF card only holds 32 pictures [ we bought on with room for 256 pictures]
Over all GREAT camera
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