Hello, I'm Martin Dorey and you are watching
AdoramaTV, today I'm going to be taking a look at the Canon
Powershot G7-X digital camera and the great
bundle of kit that comes with it. Before we talk about the
camera, let's talk about the bundle. It comes with a 32 GB class 10
SD/HC card, a Lowepro camera case,
a spare battery and an LCD screen protector,
a USB SD card reader and an
Adorama cleaning kit it's a total 'get you started, want for nothing'
camera bundle but let's move on to the main event in this bundle
and that's the Canon PowerShot G7-X. Ok so you're looking for a new camera,
you want great pictures, of course you do you want a nice big sensor,
best quality you can get, a nice big zoom lens
why not, you also want a big preview screen
and wouldn't it be great if it had a touch screen as well and also you
want well maybe WiFi and a whole load of presets
but the thing is you don't want a massive chunk of camera hanging off your
shoulder like
a DSLR the chances are if you want all that,
you want this camera. Ok, so it's a compact,
a pocket-sized power snapper that punches well above its weight
it's small but it feels robust and it feels like it's good quality
and if you're looking for a 'sling it in your bag, use it everyday'
bring it out in every situation's kind of compact
then this feels like it's going to go the distance
and why would you want to put this camera in your pocket in the first place? Well
there are two very good reasons; the first one
is it's sensor, it's a 1inch, 1.0 type sensor
that delivers 20.2 megapixels, now thats
almost as big as some DSLR's but
a camera is only as good as the glass in front of it,
so let's talk about the lens. Frankly you'll wonder how they fit it all in, its
going to give you 24mm at its widest,
100mm at its longest on the optical zoom
and its going to give you the option of going even further digitally, although you can turn it off.
Now interestingly, the lens
ring will allow you to zoom to preset focal lengths,
which is pretty useful if you know what type of lenses you need to use at any point
you can just
click to the next stop.
It's really crisp and clear too and the preview screen
which flips up for those selfies
of course, is also touch sensitive so you can
choose your focus point and you can also program it
to take shots whenever you touch it, very useful. In auto mode the PowerShot
G7 -X is going to give you great results,
it's got image stabilization, its got
31 sensor points, it will do a self
timer, it will also allow you to shoot continuously
up to 6.5 frames per second,
but, isn't that wasting just
a little bit of this cameras full potential? Maybe.
Like most cameras it will allow you to shoot in
either TV or AV modes, so you can
take control of either the time or the aperture.
Personally I like being able to set the maximum
ISO value, say to 400, while keeping the
ISO on automatic it means that if the light drops
you can still get really good blacks without the ISO
ramping up to compensate. In manual mode the lens functioning
will allow you to control the aperture while the function ring on the back
will control the speed. The exposure compensation ring on the top here
will allow you to compensate up to three stops each way,
I like that functional on my DSLR and I like it on this
too, I feel like I have just that little bit of extra control
if my metering is giving me too much or too little.
Ok, that's enough chat about this camera,
let's put it through some paces. Now what would be good for demonstrating it?
Mmm...something big and shiny in a lovely great big landscape,
that'll do it!
Ok let's take a few pictures and see what we get, first of all
fully automatic.
Now I'm going to switch to manual and pick up some close ups of the van, it's a
really good subject for closeups
as well as wide shots.
Ok next, I'm going to put it creative shot mode
here, which will take multiple pictures and treat them slightly differently
so you can choose between them.
Another couple of functions in this camera which are quite interesting is
it will allow you to do special scenes like fireworks, starry skies, people
in front of starry skies
you can set it to that and it will do it all for you
which is really useful. Also there are a number of creative effects
now these are such as HDR, black-and-white,
sepia, posterized effect, miniture
effect, toy camera effect so you can basically
choose a whole load of stuff like you would do on your smartphone to get different looks.
So the shots are great, the creative effects look really interesting and on a dull
day like this you're going to need some of them to
really bring out the color.
Anyway there is just so much to this camera, treat it like a point-and-shoot and it won't let you
down, get creative and it's going to be your friend
and if you demand really, really decent
quality images from a compact, go for it!
You want it all, you want this camera.
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