Canon PowerShot G12 Answering Leap Upper Class?

Featured New Canon PowerShot G12 comes with some improvements detail, but overall is still below expectations. With the take over the position of the Canon PowerShot G11 by the Nikon P7000, the Canon will carry out attacks with the launch of the PowerShot G12. However, on first appearance, had some doubt. Basic features show a big change for the G11. It is situated on sensor optimization and has been revised in the small details.

To give you points, the PowerShot G12 is the same as its predecessor and remains a high-end compact camera is great, which is also a second camera option in addition to digital SLR photographers. However, the Canon should prepare answers to the question, whether the facility is truly satisfying?.

This case is presented almost identical to its predecessor. Only the thumb wheel on the front side of the newly added. This makes it easier in practice, manual control of aperture and shutter speed. Thus, the PowerShot G12 also has a 2.8-inch display with 461,000 pixels and a 5x optical zoom 28-140 mm focus length. It is disturbing, that Canon has lost the opportunity to fix a lot of distortion at wide-angle lens quickly from the PowerShot G11. Thus the distortion is very disturbing to -2.3 percent.

Optical image stabilizer is now better able to compete with its predecessor. Other enhancements include the HDR mode really works well, which combines three different images internally. Video mode is now possible to record in 720p HD quality. But in this setting, autofocus system can not continuously when using optical zoom.

In terms of speed, this new edition remains with a half-second shutter lag, slightly left of the old edition. Modifications should be far more innovative. Thus, the G12 could be the best compact replaces the G11 predecessor. Price $730.