Reddit reviews Canon G12 10 MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.8 Inch Vari-Angle LCD

We found 10 Reddit comments about Canon G12 10 MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.8 Inch Vari-Angle LCD. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.

10.0-megapixel sensor and the DIGIC 4 Image Processor combine to create Canon's HS SYSTEM for improved low light performanceShoot 720p HD video in stereo sound; HDMI outputCanon's Hybrid IS compensates for angular and shift camera shake during close-up shooting5x optical zoom with Optical Image Stabilizer; 28mm wide-angle lens; optical viewfinderCapture images and video to SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card, MultiMediaCard, MMC Plus Card, HC MMC Plus Card (not included)

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10 Reddit comments about Canon G12 10 MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.8 Inch Vari-Angle LCD:

u/plb49 · 2 pointsr/photography

Canon G12

u/ccb621 · 2 pointsr/photography

The G9 and G11 may cost $700, but the G12 is only $419 at Amazon.

If Canon refuses to repair your camera, I'd say you're pretty much out of luck. Although, you could always show them the pictures to prove that the scratch is worth repairing.

u/frostickle · 2 pointsr/photography

30x/60x zoom means:

30x optical zoom

60x digital zoom, actually, sony's "clear image zoom".

A few points I would like to make:

Do you really need that much zoom? What are you taking photos of? I don't even need 5x zoom. The more zoom a lens has, the more difficult it is to make the lens. Hence; it will either get more expensive or the optical quality will go down. There has to be a trade off somewhere.
On the other hand, if you're just taking happy snaps, this "loss of quality" will not matter. You will probably only notice it if you take a photo of a brick wall, and then look very closely at the pixels.
Megapixels. 18.2mp is way too much. A facebook photo uses about 1 megapixel. Anything more gets discarded. Cramming more pixels onto a sensor reduces it's light gathering ability, and lowers the final quality of the photo. (Unless you do something very clever with your post-processing, like Nokia's new 41 megapixel cameraphone, which was designed from the ground up to have redundant pixels)
Digital zoom is useless. Imagine taking a physical printed photo of someone, getting a pair of scissors, then cutting a little square around the person's face, and giving me the photo and saying "Hey look! I zoomed in on this person's face!" That is what digital zoom does. It doesn't actually "zoom in" it just cuts away the outside part of the photo and gives you the small part of it. Cameras that offer digital zoom are no better than cameras that do not offer digital zoom.
Part of the way you can design a camera to have a super zoom lens, is by reducing the size of your sensor. (Larger sensors require larger lenses. Smaller sensors can have small lenses, and so you can make a superzoom lens that will fit on your camera if you use a small sensor.) Having a smaller sensor = performs badly in low light.

So anyway, you can get a camera with lots of zoom if you want, but your low-light capabilities will be lowered.

If I were going to spend $400 on a compact camera, I'd get the Canon G12. If I wanted a camera with lots of zoom, I'd be buying an Olympus SZ series camera.

Here is a comparison on snapsort.

Snapsort awards the Sony slightly more points, here are the things I think are most important:

Sony has GPS, bigger battery, flip out screen.

Olympus is smaller and lighter, and takes significantly wider photos.

I guess the Sony isn't so bad. I might just be biased against trying to squeeze too much zoom into a camera.

Unless you're going on Safari, or you want to take stalker photos of people from far away, I don't know why you would need so much zoom. But that's just my opinion.

Also; please feel free to buy these cameras from ebay, craigslist, keh.com, adorama.com, or your local shop. I've just used the reddit amazon tag for reasons listed here. If you see a cheaper deal elsewhere, please buy from them.

u/droptune · 2 pointsr/scuba

I have been looking at the Canon G12. From what I have read it's one of the better point and shoots for underwater. The only caveat is that the Canon underwater case you can buy for it has some bad reviews about leaking. That being said I was looking at picking up the Ikelite case for it, but it costs more than the camera does. All in you would be a little over $1000 US, but you would have a great consumer set up.

u/Zyper · 2 pointsr/photography

In that price range I like the Fuji X10 as a point in shoot mostly because of aesthetics to be honest. Canon G-series is usually the standard, however. Alex Majoli uses a Canon G9 if I remember correctly.

u/SilenceSeven · 1 pointr/photography

Used Canon G12 on Amazon... $299

u/odd_affilliate_link · 1 pointr/photography

Get a Canon G12. Has a great feature set and a flip screen which will help when shooting at low angles for skateboard photography.

u/freakscene · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Canon G12

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/japan

Huh... I was going to say it's usually cheaper in the US, but amazon US is just about the exact same price if you figure in the exchange rate.

u/peter__venkman · 1 pointr/photography

I love my Canon G12 (the better (imho) version of that camera). I use it more than my DSLR, in fact, I am selling my DSLR and lenses because I cannot stand the weight and bulk, I do a lot of street and and night time urban/architectural stuff, and I have been lugging around a D60 with dual battery grip and 4 lenses for 4 years. No way.

I have my G12, sold my E-PL2 because it sucked for nightime work, and I am waiting for the new models in January before I decide on my next buy, more than likely a Nex 7.

If I can sell a few organs, I will get a Leica M9.

tl;dr

Get a Canon G12 or a used D60/t2