The 10 Most Important Canon PowerShot Cameras of All-Time

I had a G12, G16, the latter a very good implementation of the Sony sensor, but never really fell head over heels in love with it. However, the next one, the G1X was very good indeed, a camera that I felt I could take anywhere without later regret that I should have made the effort to carry FF dslr. Reviewers laughed at the optical finder, but it was actually perfectly adequate most of the time. I gave it away to a friend of mine after getting the G1Xiii, but still have an uncomfortable feeling that it was better in some ways.
The G1X was a little clunky; the mark iii did away with that and is quite a polished product. Again I can use it without having remorse later, the IQ is excellent and the lens is pretty good. Mine certainly isn’t ‘soft’ as some reviewers claimed. It’s going with me to Glencoe in a couple of weeks.
 
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I startet my digital camera journey with the G2 - the minor attractive silver variant. It was expensive and meant for some web photos or shots in library to replace paper copies during writing a book.
This camera made a lot of fun because it had really good film like quality - no strange artifacts etc. And the lens was bright enough for lower light conditions, some bokeh and equipped with some close up capability.
Flippy screen was very helpful for alternative angles of view and the stamp like size of it helped to educate to look at the scene to understand what is on the display - the display was good enough for final composition.
Tech wise and for learning how to shoot digitally it was and is a master piece I still own.
S95 was the 2nd and last P&S from Canon, a good companion but I would prefer an M50 ii with e.g. EF-M 32 in 99.999% of use cases.
 
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