Canon PowerShot G5 X at Canon USA

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The first PowerShot G-Series camera to incorporate a full-featured 2.36 million dot electronic viewfinder, the amazing PowerShot G5 X camera makes it simple to compose, set and capture high-quality stills and video without taking your eye away from the camera. For photography in the glare of bright sunlight, recording HD Video in an auditorium and other situations where the lighting is difficult or using the LCD monitor is inconvenient, the PowerShot G5 X’s electronic viewfinder helps enable unfettered operation. Full control is made simple with dedicated dials situated around the camera that let you easily customize and control the settings. What’s more, helpful features like a built-in accessory hot shoe and a multi-angle, capacitive touch screen monitor serve to create an experience as unique as the subject being recorded. With its phenomenal and large imaging sensor, its marvelous electronic viewfinder and comprehensive operation, the PowerShot G5 X can deliver performance that’s easy to see.</p>
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<li><strong>Impressive Speed, Resolution and Quality</strong>

At the heart of the PowerShot G5 X camera is a brilliant 1.0-inch 20.2 Megapixel* High-Sensitivity CMOS sensor. Physically larger than the sensors found in most compact cameras, the PowerShot G5 X’s sensor works in tandem with Canon’s DIGIC 6 Image Processor to quickly deliver gorgeous, high-resolution images with nuanced details, plus impressive low-light performance with a low signal-to-noise ratio and minimal noise and distortion. Suitable for tremendous enlargements, significant cropping and many other applications appealing to the advanced photographer, images and video captured on the PowerShot G5 X’s sensor are engineered to impress even the most critical eye.</li>
<li><strong>Dynamic Optical Performance for Excellent Results</strong>

To take advantage of its large, 1.0-inch imaging sensor, the PowerShot G5 X camera has a sharp and versatile 4.2x Optical Zoom lens. With a 35mm equivalent range of 24–100mm it’s equally suitable for landscapes, portraits, group photographs and even close-up photography. Designed to perform in numerous lighting situations, the PowerShot G5 X’s lens has a bright maximum aperture of f/1.8 for low light performance, a 9-blade aperture for beautiful, blurred background detail and is engineered to focus from distances as close as 2.0 in. The PowerShot G5 X’s lens works in concert with the camera’s sensor and image processor to reliably deliver sharp images from edge to edge and from wide-angle to telephoto, all tailored to meet the exacting standards of even critical photographers.</li>
<li><strong>Sharp, Fast and Colorful for Optimal Performance</strong>

The PowerShot G5 X camera’s defining feature is its unique, high-definition electronic viewfinder. It’s great for photographers who prefer to hold the camera up to their eye, and is a veritable lifesaver in bright light and when composing on the camera’s LCD screen is inconvenient or overly conspicuous. Featuring 2.36 million dots, and with a wide color gamut, it provides a high-contrast, realistic and smooth edge-to-edge view for image composition, adjustment and review. Designed for sustained use, it delivers 100% image coverage, a smooth refresh rate up to 120 frames-per-second (Smooth Mode) and a flexible information display that can enable comfortable camera operation throughout the day. Its 22mm eyepoint delivers excellent visibility, even when wearing glasses, and a built-in eye sensor helps the PowerShot G5 X to transfer quickly between the viewfinder display and Live View on the camera’s LCD.</li>
<li><strong>Take Control, with Ease</strong>

Designed for speedy operation while looking through the viewfinder, the PowerShot G5 X camera features a host of controls for quick, accurate settings and adjustments. Beyond its Vari-angle touch panel LCD monitor, the PowerShot G5 X features a front dial situated on the front of the camera for operation with the index finger, a top-mounted, thumb-operated exposure compensation dial, a rear-mounted control dial plus a control ring around the camera’s lens. Eminently customizable, each dial has an optimized operating torque that helps to identify it by feel, for sustained, intuitive and near-silent operation in quiet situations like weddings and performances.</li>
<li><strong>Compact Performance, Easily Expandable</strong>

The PowerShot G5 X camera’s hot shoe enables expanded operations for advanced photography. It’s compatible with all Speedlite flashes for the EOS System, so bounce flash and multiple-flash photography is easy to achieve. Whether attaching a Speedlite flash or the Remote Switch RS-60E3 for long exposures or night scenes, the PowerShot G5 X’s hot shoe can help provide shooting opportunities far beyond the scope of most compact cameras.</li>
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<p><strong>Included in the box:</strong></p>
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<li>PowerShot G5 X</li>
<li>Neck Strap NS-DC12</li>
<li>Strap Adapter</li>
<li>Battery Pack NB-13L</li>
<li>Warranty card</li>
<li>Instruction manual</li>
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I think it looks not bad.
The integrated viewfinder and swivel screen are defently good.
The specs remind a lot of sony rx100 series.
Concerning image quality we will have to see if it can compete with the rx100 IV or rather with the rx100 III or II.
Did they mention somewhere if the sensor is from Canon or Sony?

I would like a camera that is as good as a rx100 IV (III also ok) but that is a bit better to handhold and handle. The two mode dials are maybe a hint for better adjustability than the sonys.
 
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ashmadux said:
AvTvM said:
Sure winner of ugliest camera of the year award! :eek:

Exaggerate much? Looks like a workhorse.

to me it looks "pseudo retro". Which is the worst thing possible for me. Like Nikon Df. On analogue cameras those knobs, levers and wheels and their arrangement had a specific purpose. Design did follow function. Not here.

That said, I wish Canon had stuck that EVF into a fully competitive EOS M4 rather than into a powershot!
 
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AvTvM said:
ashmadux said:
AvTvM said:
Sure winner of ugliest camera of the year award! :eek:

Exaggerate much? Looks like a workhorse.

to me it looks "pseudo retro". Which is the worst thing possible for me. Like Nikon Df. On analogue cameras those knobs, levers and wheels and their arrangement had a specific purpose. Design did follow function. Not here.

That said, I wish Canon had stuck that EVF into a fully competitive EOS M4 rather than into a powershot!

it looks like it tries to be functional but I bet it'll be difficult to hold with one hand and not accidentally press buttons on the back, much like the G11/12 cameras.
Maybe there's a strap configuration that'll make that easier... Or an aftermarket grip.
EDIT: and the $700-800 price I saw speculated is kinda high but may be pallatable for early adopters.
I'll wait til the price is lowered/refurb/used one.
 
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The body looks similar to my G11 which I like. It feels comfortable in my hand. I notice that no mention is made of the maximum shutter speed. On the Sony M 4 it is 32,000. In addition the M4 records Video 4 format. How does the lens quality compare to the M4. If the canon is a couple of iterations behind, why would anyone purchase it? Waiting to find out.
 
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