Canon PowerShot G6 Digital Camera

Canon PowerShot G6

PowerShot G6 Digital Camera Review, by Paul Jasper November 2, 2004

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• Reviewed by: dmaffei

  Strengths: Easy to use. No setup necessary. Long battery life

  Weaknesses: none

  Overall: This is the best Powershot yet. With the dial on the back, you always know what mode you're in. The battery life is really long. I also bought the 2 gig memory card.

• Reviewed by: kingsgraphic

  Strengths: Superb sharp photographs, which will print to 20" x 16". Acurate metering and focussing. A whole raft of user accessible settings, that will take weeks to explore. Incredible battery life.

  Weaknesses: Crummy little cover over the AV/DC/Digital ports (will almost certainly break off one day). On/off button too easy to accidentally trigger (I trimmed mine shorter with a craft knife to solve this)

  Overall: I've been running this camera for over six-months after retiring my Hasselblad. I wanted a camera that would produce upto 20 x 16 prints, but didn't need a suitcase of accessories to do the job. The G6 fits the role nicely. The zoom and focussing are quick and accurate. In the six-months I've used the camera I guess I've only binned a handful of shots because of inaccurate focus, out of 1000+ photos.Most impressive is the battery life. The manual suggests that 400 shots are possible depending on flash/LCD usage. When I first read that I said "In your dreams!". No, it really will do it!Mostly I can't fault this camera, and bearing in mind that I'll unlikely want a higher resolution, I can't see me wanting to part with it.

• Reviewed by: rahmati

  Strengths: Fast f/2-3 35-140mm Lens, Excelent Image Quality, Excelent Color, Excelent Dynamic range, Low Noise, High Power Flash, and EVERY manual control you can think of!

  Weaknesses: Movie mode, No USB2, Size

  Overall: Best in current non SLRs: Fastest Lens Color Reproduction Dynamic Range Best in class: Image Quality Flash Noise Manual Control RAW buffering Better Than Average in class: Focus speed (Good enough though, and much much better than previous Canons. This one can finaly focus on moving kids!!) Weak in class: Movie mode: 640x480 @ 10fps for 30 sec. 320x240 @ 15fps for 180 sec. No USB2

• Reviewed by: Rebelxt

  Strengths: Improvements over G5 in size, faster start up, picture quality, high speed continuous shooting, bigger LCD, lighted status screen, and built in neutural density filter.

  Weaknesses: I only wish it comes in black and has USB 2.0 connection.

  Overall: I experimented with the G5 for several days and decided to purchase the G6 after reading about its improvements. I was impressed. (See items listed in 'Strengths' section. The noise at ISO 400 was noticeably lower than the G5. The high speed continuous shooting mode was great to capture people in motion. Both were features I couldn't do very well with the G5. The new button positions allowed better one hand operation. The big aperture was came in handy in low light and high power zoom situations. I guess the picture quality is as good as any non-SLR can get. It still doesn't have the crispness of a rebel yet. Ultimately I want an SLR, however, there are many situations when smaller size and twisting LCD screen of the G6 can do a better job.

• Reviewed by: srinivass

  Strengths: The Shapness of the photo.It's SLR look and looks great

  Weaknesses: none so far

  Overall: I purchased this camera about a month ago and so far very much impressed. I'm still learning and it will take some time everything this camera can do. This looks like a digital SLR, but their size makes them too cumbersome to carry around if you like to go out in the "bush" with you. With 7.1 megapixels, you will get sharp pictures that can be blown up large enough to put hang on the wall (perhaps 11X17 or larger). It's very good and worth very penny of the price.