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You will be stepping into the semi-professional class of digital cameras if you acquire this Canon Powershot G1 digicam. The G1 has a solidity and heft not usually found in the average pro-sumer digital camera. It feels as if the camera was carved from a billet of titanium or chromium steel. This digicam takes terrific pictures and has some very upscale features borrowed from the upper-end Canon digicams. Many optional Canon accessory lens and filter attachments are available for this camera. It also has a Flash Hot Shoe that accepts certain digital ready Canon Speedlite Flash units. The Canon G1 controls the optional Speedlite flash and adjust the flash intensity and duration based on the light readings collected from the camera. The camera accepts BOTH Type I and Type II Compact Flash cards which means that you can use the family of IBM/Hitachi Microdrive Compact Flash Hard Drives with no problems whatsoever. You can certainly shoot to your hearts content and not worry about running out of storage space if you decide to use one of the 2.2 GB or 4.0 GB optional Microdrive hard drives. This is one of Canon’s largest selling pro-sumer digicams because of the build quality and for the outstanding quality digital images this camera is capable of producing. Oh and by the way, you can acquire one on Ebay in excellent condition for between $125.00 and $150.00. An excellent deal considering the quality digital photos it is capable of capturing.Read full review
It may only have 3.3 megapixels, but, you can do a lot with that. I make 8X10 prints that look good. Also, the smaller files take up less storage. The lens is f2.0, so it does well in low light even though it doesn't have a high I SO setting. Finally, the exterior is metal which is very durable. I now have two of these and love them!
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What is there not to like? To begin with there are only 3 or 4 digital cameras that are capable of capturing infrared or near infrared images without severe and or expensive modification. And they are all older cameras - before the manufacturers started using more aggressive "hot mirrors" to filter infrared light. I have tried them all - the Nikon, the 2 Oly's and of course the amazing Canon G1. And there are a few things that put the G1 at the top of the list. BTW - don't just take my word on this. Do some research on your own. (1)The G1 shoots in RAW mode allowing you to convert the image to TIFF. On average my TIFF images are 9MB or larger. Plenty of room for cropping and or producing large prints. (2)The G1 has huge depth of field at any aperture weather you want it or not. (3)Capturing IR or NIR images is just so easy. Set it on "P" mode & auto focus. (4)And the "frosty" hues that are produced are just so pleasant. Of course these can be toned down or totally desaturated to ones liking. (5)Love the wireless remote. (6)Love the rotating LCD as well. (7)The most sturdy digital camera I have ever held. Mostly metal parts. (8)And finally the battery. The Canon lithium-ion battery is probably the longest lasting rechargeable on the market. You can go days between charges assuming you don't use the flash and or LCD too much. After all, the LCD really should not be used to frame a shot anyway. It should be used for review only. FYI - If you are in the market for a used G1 please have the seller do a simple test for you. Have them take a shot with the lens cap on. Or in a very dark room with no flash. And then blow up the image. It should be perfectly black. If there are different colored spots - hot pixels - when the black image is magnified, consider a different source. All digital cameras are going to produce hot pixels eventually. IR or NIR images are produced at such a low exposure that these hot pixels can absolutely ruin every image you produce. And to try to touch them up is nearly impossible. FYI - there is a firmware upgrade on Canon's web site for the G1. You can do a check by serial number weather it needs the upgrade or not. If it does require the upgrade and it hasn't been done the battery can become overly discharged basically ruining the fairly expensive Canon battery. In closing they don't make digital cameras like this anymore. If you find a good one hold on to it. And always store you digital camera with the battery removed.Read full review
Introduced about 10 or 12 years ago this was an expensive digital camera at the time, now considered obsolete of course due to the 3.3 megapixel image sensor size this little robust bullet proof camera is one of the best kept secrets available for a absolute bargain on the used market today. I shoot brochure images as well as magazine articles and magazine covers with mine and the image quality is always flawless (I can hear the collective moans rising up from the 10+ megapixel crowd all the way from here) and these G1's have never let me down in the worst of environments; paper mills and plywood plants all over the world. The camera has been wet, overheated, frozen, vibrated, banged and bumped, and basically neglected since new, and although tired looking and feeling a bit loose now with some missing screws (airplane vibration is the worst), it still to this day performs perfectly and produces amazing images. The best feature has to have been the rotating screen, that feature alone has been a huge advantage in obtaining the best angle industrial shots, inside of and around corners within huge machinery while running, images that would have been virtually impossible any other way, and certainly not possible with a fixed screen nor through a view finder. Over the last couple of years I have bought 2 more of these gems in order to augment my againg first one, both were used (both in excellent + to near mint condition) on eBay for not a lot of money ($60.00 for one, and an unbelievable $18.00 for the last one a couple of weeks ago) because I simply can't justify spending thousands on a McDigital camera that doesn't do anything any better than this one ... go to the December 2006 issue of Specialty Wood Journal (Volume 9, Number 6), that is my cover shot, try to find fault with it (there are those moans again, but it all comes down to understanding light, a sharp lens and proper camera work prior to pressing the shutter ... including using a tripod and understanding depth of field, camera basics that I notice lacking within a vast group of photographers today who feel they are fully entitled to short-cuts to craftsmanship because they paid out a lot of money for image stabalizers and Photoshop). With a fresh fully-charged battery and a 1 gig memory card you are good for a whole bunch of images, cheap to buy now and cheap to run (well, with the exception of having to buy a new Canon compatible battery) these amazing little G1's are what photography is all about. I have mine packed into the smallest of Nikon camera bags that holds the camera, a really nice after-market grip I found in eBay a few years ago, a few memory cards, a spare battery and the charger and this kits goes everywhere with me ... the only trouble, common to all battery-dependant cameras of course, is the whole battery issue and in remembering to keep them charged (how can you tell that I grew up in the Canon F1 era where we never thought of batteries, heck I never used a battery nor the light meter, because a sunny day was always f16) ... but the great thing about the G1 is that it holds a big battery and draws not a lot of power to run it (no vibrating sensor nor 19" LCD screen to kill the battery) ... a great little camera at a bargain price today, truly one of the best kept secrets available if you don't need to impress the whole McDigital crowd with 25 megapixel images, 52 protruding buttons and some 400+ menus to navigate around.Read full review
My son loved it
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