Canon PowerShot G3 X Digital Camera w/ 1-Inch Sensor and 25x Optical Zoom - Wi-Fi & NFC Enabled (Black)
Canon PowerShot G3 X Digital Camera w/ 1-Inch Sensor and 25x Optical Zoom - Wi-Fi & NFC Enabled (Black)
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- Canon PowerShot G3 X
- 25x, f/2.8-5.6 optical zoom lens, 24-600mm equivalent
- ISO 125-12800
- DIGIC 6 Image Processor
- 1080p Full HD and Expanded Movie Options
Brand : Canon
Category : Electronics,Camera & Photo,Digital Cameras,Point & Shoot Digital Cameras
Rating : 4.3
Review Count : 63
Canon PowerShot G3 X Digital Camera w/ 1-Inch Sensor and 25x Optical Zoom - Wi-Fi & NFC Enabled (Black)
- October 2017 - I\'ve just bought my second one! The lens motor started to fail and the spring on the zoom button no longer worked. That sounds bad until you realize that I\'d taken 19,000 photos with it. If you are in the market for a high end compact then you probably have 3 choices, the G3x, the Panasonic FZ2500, and Sony RX100-III. The G3X has more zoom (25x vs 20x or 16x) and a touch screen, but if those aren\'t important to you then check out the others. For me the zoom matters, and canon did such a nice job with the touch screen that I\'d have trouble going back to all of those knobs and buttons. The fact that I\'m buying the same again is probably all you need to know, but you can check out my original review below.This is an outstanding all round camera. As well as first impressions I\'ve added updates below after a few hundred pics and a couple of thousand pics - the more I use this camera the more I like it.Can I replace both of my current cameras with the G3X? Yes!For indoors and shooting sports in low light (like basketball in a poorly lit gym) I currently have a Canon G15 (fast lens but zoom is limited to 5x), and for outdoors a Canon SX50 HS (50x zoom).Under all but the most extreme conditions it outperforms both of them. If you really need to zoom out beyond 30x then the SX50 is a little better, and if you need to shoot sports in really low light and a zoom of 5x is enough then the G15 is a little better.So what\'s to like or dislike?Dislikes: Ergonomically it has some shortcomings for me - you can change your highest priority setting (like aperture, speed, iso) using the front dial and I don\'t find this placed as conveniently (on top of the camera) as it was on the G15. I always want to be able to shoot one handed and the right hand grip isn\'t quite shaped for that, although it\'s a fairly simple matter to build it up a bit. I also find it heavy for a compact camera, much heavier than any I\'ve had before. One problem with the touch screen (which I mostly like) is that it is too easy to change settings by mistake with your thumb.A major gripe: I always use a protective UV filter and a folding rubber lens hood, so it is really annoying that Canon insists that you can only buy their (plastic) lens adapter together with their (plastic) lens hood for around $40. The good news is that I tried the sturdy metal lens adaptor off my SX50 and it fits.Likes: Some reviewers don\'t like the absence of a digital view finder. That\'s very much personal choice and I never use a dvf so for me it\'s a plus. Some have found it slow to focus, I\'ve no complaints on that score. I do like the tilt touch screen - specially for the auto-focus (you touch on the thing you want to focus on and it locks onto it as you pan the camera). I\'d prefer both tilt and swivel though. I like the Canon menu system and they\'ve done a good job of not changing too much at a time as they move from one generation of camera to the next.Update added after owning the camera for several weeks. This camera is way better than I thought at first. I\'ve got several hundred pics and can compare them and I\'ve have had a chance to try different camera settings in real situations. For low light situations you can ramp the speed up to 3200 ISO and still get pretty good pics (they\'ll print at up to 4\" x 6\" without being too grainy). The colour balance in low light is also better than I expected.Second update a couple of weeks later and after a couple of thousand pics. Wow. The more I use this camera the more it grows on me. I\'ve still only used \'Auto\', \'Sport\', and \'Tv (exposure time priority)\' settings, but now that I\'m more familiar with it I\'m finding the combination of touch screen and dial settings to be very nicely designed. I\'m also finding that the performance under real world conditions exceeds what I expected. A couple of days ago I was shooting wrestling in a fairly typically lit high school gym and found that from the top of the bleachers I could zoom in to anywhere on the floor and get good pics with exposure times of 1/125 or less. I didn\'t think you could get that kind of performance with a compact. (But I still don\'t find the front dial as conveniently placed as it was on the G15).Third update. After close to 5000 photos. Track season is here and I had previously used my 50x (1200mm equivalent) Canon SX50. Some reviewers have complained about the time to focus. Would the G3X be up to the job? You\'re at the wrong end of the track and you realize one of your kids has started her run-up to the pole vault. Can you pan-zoom-focus in time to get a good shot of her clearing (you hope!) the bar? YES. Your kid is running the 100m, is the zoom up to the job of getting crisp shots of him coming out of the starting blocks from the far end of the track? YES. Also: this camera has a pretty fast lens for the zoom range so in sport mode even long shots default to 1/1000 or faster under light cloud. Continuous shooting speed up to around 6 shots per second which is great for action shots. Even under bright sunlight I\'ve found the LCD screen just fine - and you can always tilt it to minimize glare. Note that for outdoor sports photography I always use a monopod (the Slik Lighty Pod is a good one) so I can\'t comment on hand-held performance, but first time out I got the best sports pics ever.By the way, most cameras are designed to be held by \'everyone\' so the grips are less than ideal for most people. I recommend building the shape up with double sided sticky mounting foam and then put sticky backed felt (available from JoAnn or other craft shops) over the top. If you do this with the G3X you\'ll find that you can pretty much do everything with one hand - grip, point adjust settings, shoot.For those interested in the specifications (zooms are in 35mm equivalent)G15: zoom 28mm -140mm at f1.8 - f2.8 max, 12Mp, iso 80-12800 (80 - 2000 is realistic)SX50 HS: zoom 24mm - 1200 at f3.4 - f6.5 max, 12Mp, iso 80-6400 (80 -1600 is realistic)G3X: zoom 24mm - 600 at f2.8 - f5.6 max, 20Mp, iso 125 - 12800 (124 - 3200 is realistic)
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