Canon PowerShot G5 5MP Digital Camera w/ 4x Optical Zoom

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Summary: Good Full Feature Camera, Some Issues
Review: I have been really happy with the overall performance of this camera. I love being able to change how many pixels I want for my photos. I frequently will use the 5 pixel function so that I can later crop photos as necessary. Sometimes I wish that the camera were smaller. Also, we had to send the camera back to the manufacturer because the battery closure warped and the camera kept losing power. They fixed it quickly and for free. I was happy with the service.

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Summary: A great camera for daily needs
Review: I bought this camera after reviewing several other camera in the same price range. This is a great camera with most of the features I was looking for including a handy remote to take picture of the whole family. I love it...

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Summary: Best price/performance ratio
Review: I've been using this camera for 3 months, and have clicked about 1600 photos as of yesterday. Here's my take on it.
- The lens is amazing. Fast and crystal clear. In digital cameras, the lens quality is more important than the mega-pixels beyond a certain point - for me personally that's 3.2MP
- The battery lasts forever compared to other cameras in this range.
- Tons of features, with amazing customization and configurability. I've taken beautiful photos in extremely low light conditions to very still pictures in high motion environments.
- Very capable.
- The package comes with everything you need. All the cables, remote control, charger, ac adapter etc... The only thing you have to buy is a big memory card.
- The software drivers are nice, but the rest of the software is pretty useless. Download picasa (http://www.picasa.com) - it's better than iPhoto and is now free.
- It is big and bulky (smaller than an SLR, but bigger than the S50). I bought this instead of the small S500 - at the time they cost the same; and have no regrets. The capabilities are worth the extra bulk.

Read all the reviews of the purple fringing and chromatic aberrations. Here's my take
- all cameras have them
- personally, I've never noticed it.
- the pictures look great when printed out or on the screen.
- if you really want, you can fix them using software.

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Summary: Avoid the G5 due to blue fringing / Chromatic Aberrations
Review: My experience with the G5 is that it should be avoided due to blue/purple fringing (Chromatic Aberrations) within images. (...)

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Summary: Best Camera out there!!!
Review: I bought the Canon G5 about 3 months ago, best digital camera i ever owned. I still have my ELPH S230 which I carry around all the time, but this one is capable of fully automatic settings, you can everything with this little gem. I do not know why the lens cap falling off bugs people so much, would you rather take that great shot with the lens cap on? I would give this camera 6 stars if I could.

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Summary: Bad parcel
Review: Amazon, pay atention, may be the store had receive a bad parcel of G5, 'cause two customers had writen a review about bad battery.

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Summary: battery dead after a few shots
Review: 0 star if I could since it is almost consider to be DOA. Don't know how good the camera yet. But just after a few shots, the battery is dead. Based on Canon's support, I have to send the battery back for them to check. What a bull!!! Now I have to wait a few weeks before I can use it again if I am lucky enough.