Home > Consumer Reviews > Canon PowerShot G7 Digital Camera - Black (10.0MP, 6x Optical Zoom) 2.5" LCD

this compact camera is an amazing machine , a little larger than the ixus which is what i was looking for but great to use with loads of practical options . I would recommend this camera to anybody.
Only hick up I had was a camera bag I found the lowepro 30 too tight especially with the carry strap but the loewpro 60 is ideal still compact but room to stow the strap.

I bought this camera after talking to different people working in the industry. I wanted a camera with the options of a SLR but with the comfort of a compact camera. Several models were presented but the G7 came out as the best. A purchase I haven't been sorry of, that I can asure you. If you don't want to fiddle with too many buttons, just preset the camera to 'auto' and click away. The pictures are extremely fine and without any blur, even when shooting animals or kids. The screen on the camera is big enough and the pictures are clear to review, so no comments there either. The optical zoom of 6x is mostly enough for the average photographer, but you can add the digital zoom to this. Taking the zoom to 24x, although the quality of the picture will suffer. The only slight remark is the manual. It's HUGE! And as a final word of advise, read this manual. Otherwise you'll have spend a lot of money on a camera with which you could have archieved much more.

This product should have an identity crisis - the only notionally prosumer camera which can fit into your pocket (the thickness and size of two audio cassette cases). Yes it is sturdy and looks like a pre-digital retro camera; it has complex features and modes almost as many as a basic DSLR and yet!
The absence of RAW alienates many of its target group. The zany decision to have a 6x boringly slow 2.8 lens in a 10 mpx camera which weighs 12 ounces anyway is so sad. Canon's bizarre and anachronistic answer is to offer a massive wide-angle adaptor and tube for all those situations when users will scream for a wider view.....a bit like offering a tractor fender option for use on a saloon car. So this may not be the camera of your dreams but it is still quite a powerful package by the standards of 2006.

This beast has masses of features and a handy control wheel to scroll through them. The well-coated lens produces accurate colours and face-detection is almost state of the art for a compact, along with the IS/optical stabilisation feature. The camera will fire off nearly 2 pictures in bright sunlight and is generally fast and rather responsive for a compact camera.

So very few advances here and yet as a second camera or something to rejuvenate a sense of inherent interest in photography the G7's size-performance ratio has few peers. There's a lot that Canon have been regressive and lazy about with this new model: very crude optical viewfinder and a traditional small CCD etc. The adantages of the G7 are perhaps, largely incremental. As a chunky compact it seems tough and flexible, fast in action and produces above average results with relatively few artefacts. Like most of its rivals, low-light digital photography involves noise - although perhaps less than most of its more compact rivals (apparent at 400 ISO and above).

By the end of 2006, the G7 is the only kid on the block - small, fast, truly flexible and responsive despite failing to be quite the advance in pocketable prosumer cameras enthusiasts would have hoped for. Yet, for all this, the camera oozes personality and will probably grow on its owners - inducing them to creatively control their pictures more than any other compact does. For this reason alone, if you're hoping to indulge your photographic fantasies without a DSLR this camera has to deserve very serious consideration.

Powershot G7 is a great camera to take whenever you don't want to lug around your SLR and lenses. It has all the manual controls you can ask for, the autofocus is accurate and the screen is large, sharp and gives all the information you need. I am totally impressed with the camera. Buying through amazon, there is currently a lowepro free case available. It's a nice case, but way too smnall for the G7- it doesn't fit!

Firstly, I'm no camera buff, but the Canon PowerShot G7 has been a little gem in comparison to my one time really special 'holiday' friend, the Canon PowerShot S80. On the G7 I like the dedicated ISO selector dial. To be honest, the other reviews sum up my own thoughts and you are limited how large you can make prints at higher ISO levels(above ISO400, I've found) -known as 'noise' to the camera boffs.

But overall, this is a cracking camera and I've taken many shots to be proud of (inc. water, beach, sunsets, seashells, and some brilliant 'macro' shots. All in all, little by little, I'm making use of most of the modes and functions of this camera and have received enough compliments about MY results to not care about the opinion of whinging 'boffs' out there. Get out and ENJOY the results, I say. Don't forget to get the Canon soft leather case available for the G7/G9 - from £12.50<

Oh but oh though - how I wish I'd waited for the Canon G9. I once saw the benefits of RAW but guess what? Canon removed RAW after the model preceding my Canon S80 and now reintroduce it on the next model after my G7 ie. the now available Canon G9!! That's life - I guess!! Get the Canon G9 - it's truly awesome!! (see it's review on www.dpreview.com )