Canon’s Powershot G10 offers a staggering 14.7 million pixels on its hi-def CCD sensor.
Pixel count isn’t the only indicator of quality, but in general more pixels is better and certainly gives you more cropping choice after the event.
The Canon A590IS model is more geared to amateurs whereas, the Powershot G10 is very much a prosumer model. The feature list makes it clear.
The G10 features a 28mm wide angle lens and also offers a 5x zoom. Optical Image Stabilisation helps you to keep the image sharp even at the long end of the zoom – very important for anyone who can’t hand-hold a camera as steadily as you used to. The benefit of the image stabliser is that more of your shots come out sharp.
The lcd screen is a 3.0-inch Pure Color LCD II screen. That makes it much easier to line up your shots – there’ll be no squinting to see what’s on the screen. If you’ve never used a large LCD screen digital camera before then you’ll be astonished at just how much easier it makes life. The Canon Powershot offers a really beautiful display.
The famed Canon Digic 4 processor has been added. The DIGIC 4 offers faster operation and enhanced image quality – something that everyone will make use of.
One thing to remember is that a digital camera needs some food and a camera that has extremely high resolution is going to need a lot of memory card to store its images. There’s usually a selection of well priced memory cards at places like www.digitalcamerafood.co.uk
That’s where cards like the sandisk 8gb sdhc or the transcend 8gb sdhc card are so useful. An 8gb card will store a useful number of hi-res images and allow you to keep shooting for longer.
The Powershot G10 is truly a stunning example of engineering and design.
You can safely say that it will be a more practical alternative to an SLR. Although it’s not the smallest digital ‘compact’ on the market, it’s probably one of, if not the best specified and ergonomically designed cameras available today.
