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Summary: Great Gift!
Review: I received the Canon Power Shot G2 as a 21st birthday gift from my husband. I've fallen in love with it in the short three weeks I've had it. From its self-timer to video recording capabilities, the features on the camera are outstanding! The picture quality is clear and gorgeous. I feel like a professional when I use the Canon Power Shot G2.
Another very important thing is the battery is very strong and stays charged for a very long time. This camera is a must have for the digital picture people out there!
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Summary: Great camera.
Review: I've been using this camera for more than a year and I'm fully satisfied with it. It has small auto focusing problem in the certain conditions, but it doesn't happen often.
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Summary: Great price for a great camera
Review: I looked at the high end digital camera's and for the quality this certainly fit the price. It has all the advanced features I was looking for without the really expensive price tag. The quality of the photographs are great, I also bought a very nice color printer made for photographs, they don't look quite as good as 35MM but they are pretty good and once in my photo album people don't notice.
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Summary: Outstanding Performer
Review: After reading the owners manual once, I had little problem using 90% of this camera effectively, although I have been taking pics for a good 20 years now. The camera performs as claimed and takes great pics. The shutter response is a bit slower than my EOS Elan II, but is better than other point and shoot film cameras or lower-priced digital cameras I've used. All in all, the shutter response was not a problem for me. Within a month of getting the camera I took it on my first trip to Japan. It handled everything well, and the weight was not a problem carrying around Japan for 6 days jumping in and out of trains and stores. The pics turned out just great. The 32MB memory card they provide is useless...256MB cards are pretty inexpensive these days. I haven't gotten the lens adapter or filters yet, and I miss having a polarizing filter, but the auto-balance feature in Adobe Photoshop Limited Edition (came with the cam) helps a bit. Good luck!
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Summary: 5 star camera but not all wine and roses
Review: Great camera but keep in mind 3 things I found not quite right. At first I gave this camera 5 stars but after some time I find these things to consider. First the camera will only down load (at least for me) on the canon software, and it freeses often and I have had to uninstalled and reinstalled often. Now I can't get it to do anything after 3 hours of fooling around so on to another program or a card reader maybe. Next the lens is very wide and close to the your hands so watch your fingers, they can leave prints often. A simple filter would help protect the lens but you need an adapter that takes way from the cameras look and compactness. At first I didn't care but now I see the lens can be damaged so easy. 3rd watch out for the strap it works lose after some time. Almost lost the camera on a hiking trip. That would have been bad. But pictures are great. Coolest camera out there.
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Summary: I'm in love w/my camera
Review: This camera is everything I wanted and then some. Easy to use. My family thinks I should go pro. That's how good this camera makes me look. I bought the 256MB card which it'll hold up to 999 best quality pictures. Everything right down to the battery on this camera is perfection. Thank-you Canon!
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Summary: An Excellent Camera - Image Quality Beats Many 5MP Cameras
Review: I have been using the Canon Powershot G2 for about 2 months, 4000 pictures later I am VERY impressed with this camera. The Canon Powershot G2 is a joy to use. It has a superfast F2-2.0 3x optical zoom lens. The image quality is astounding, I can easily make 8x10 photographic prints that you couldn't tell from a 35 mm. The shutter responds very quickly provided you prefocus on the subject, which I find no big thing when taking sports pictures. The controls are well positioned and logical. The inclusion of the RAW file system is a major plus for hard core image editing. I have bought the macro, wide angle, and telephoto adapters for this camera and they all work very well. The Macro performance is fantastic. This camera is absolutely perfect in every way except one, and this is a fault all digitals have not just the Powershot. This fault is that images taken above ISO 100 and noisy. HOWEVER, I highly recommend getting a program called Neat Image Pro that reduces noise in pictures if you enjoy shooting at high speeds. I give Canon major kudos for this camera. However, I recommed you go for the G3 now that its out, I find its shutter speed improvements worth it.
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Summary: Easily the best camera on the market but too "honest"
Review: If you sort the reviews already available here by "Most Helpful", you'll notice that the technical features that made Powershot series a pain in the rear of Nikon/FujiFilm/Olympus are already well documented. The bundled ancillaries (software, maintenance stuff etc) is unarguably the best on the market, period, the support for IBM's 1 GB microdrive (which Nikon did not have until recently), the hot shoe being right on the camera, the superb CanonScan software that makes it a cinch to get your snaps on your machine even for tech-phobic folk, the sturdier heavier body of the camera that makes it easier to balance, CP-10 card photo printer support, the new vivid color mode, the wireless remote control, the plethora of compatible flashes (Speedlite 220EX, 380EX, 420EX, and 550EX to be precise), the possibility of recording videos WITH sound up to 120 seconds, or 30 seconds in a larger frame size (Nikon wannabes note...until recently, Nikon did not support sound in videos) ...etc etc. Yes, all of this is outstanding and even if you don't get most of it, YOU WILL BE SURPRISED eventually after you have used and discovered your G2 Powershot for while, when you find out why Canon was the best choice you could have made! HOWEVER, amidst the celebration of all this doohickey one thing we often neglect to consider is the quality of the pictures themselves -- isn't THAT the main purpose of a camera, digital or otherwise? All the convenience in handling, maintaining and uploading wouldn't be worth jack if the pictures themselves looked better with another camera! And in this important department of "quality", I have always wanted to compare G2 and Nikon's top comparable options (specifically 995, 4300 and 5700) because these are the only two brands that'll give you near-pro functionality and quality at consumer prices (apologies to FinePix/Olympus owners). I had the luxury recently of trekking with friends who own Nikons 4300 and 995 respectively. Pretty much the ONLY thing I've found Nikon-freaks mentioning since the release of G2 is the oh-so-exalted Nikor lens because Canon beats Nikon hands-down in pretty much every other department as noted above. Me and my 2 friends are all more or less at a similar level of expertise with photography, none professional. But all have owned and worked with our camera for a while and read the manuals thin. Here is what I believe after head-to-head comparisons, your mileage may vary -- OUTDOOR PICTURES IN BRIGHT LIGHT:
Canon's colors were more real. Clarity is good with all 3 cameras but Nikon seemed a little reddish to me. PICTURES IN LOW LIGHTING (INDOOR OR NIGHT PICTURES):
This is where Canon where truly leave you in "shock and awe" (sorry for the choice of words). I was stunned with some of Canon's ultra-realistic pictures when only a candle was on in a room for example. FIGURES/FACES OF PEOPLE:
Unfortunately, even with a lot of tweaking, Nikon is just simply better at faces of people for some reason. Canon is too, er, "real"? We agreed that with Nikon ...the colors, shades, contours of the same face can be made to look a little better than with Canon -- and I am excluding software based trickery of course. DEFAULT MODE:
If you opt to use only the default modes in Canon and Nikon, then Nikon will win in terms of photo quality. Canon provides excellent detail and clarity, but the default mode has the now notorious "white specks" or dotted edges. This is easily taken care of with some adjustment (read the manual). ALL IN ALL: I feel Canon's results are more "honest". It just captures the reality in every sense-- colors, the range of what your eyes see etc. This usually means it is better for me, but if my pictures were going to be mainly of people I would also give the Nikons a good look. Otherwise, Canon G2 Powershot is the best there is. Even better than the new G3 (for now).
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Summary: Great Camera!
Review: My husband bought me this camera for my birthday, and I've had it for almost a year and absolutely love it! I'm a terrible photographer - don't know much about setting up a shot - but with this digital camera, I'm able to keep taking the picture until I get what I want. I went to my friend's wedding and took hundreds of photographs, and was able to give them a CD with a lot of nice pictures rather than a package of blurry prints of people's hands, faces, noses, etc. :)The one feature I like about this camera that isn't found in any other digital camera brand(to my knowledge), is the rotating screen. I love that my screen is protected when I'm not using it, and I usually have it out when I'm taking pictures so my fingers don't end up on it like they would in other cameras with fixed screens. I also love how it can be both manually manipulated as well as fully automated. Because I'm not afraid of wasting money on developing film now, I'm getting more into the manual stuff. This camera is definitely not intimidating for a beginner like me!
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Summary: Better to much then to little
Review: Great camera. It is better then I hoped. Maybe to good. I wanted a high quality camera that takes great pictures. I got that and more. This camera will do for some time. I mean how much better can the pitures get? I wanted a camara that would take the place of a 35 MM and it does and then some.
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