Canon PowerShot G3 Canon PowerShot G3 Review, Phil AskeyDecember 2002

Review based on a production PowerShot G3 The original three megapixel PowerShot G1 was announced at Photokina 2000 (September 2000), just less than a year later (August 2001) they announced the four megapixel PowerShot G2 with a fairly significant range of improvements. A year after that at Photokina 2002 Canon announced the new four megapixel PowerShot G3, with a sleek new body design, new control layout and image processor and four times optical zoom lens. Canon PowerShot G3 vs. PowerShot G2 (differences only)

	Canon PowerShot G3	Canon PowerShot G2
JPEG format	EXIF 2.2	EXIF 1.1
Lens	4x optical, 35 - 140 mm equiv.	3x optical, 34 - 102 mm equiv.
Lens max aperture	F2.0 - F3.0	F2.0 - F2.5
Lens thread	58 mm with bayonet fitting adapter	58 mm with screw fitting adapter
Auto focus	Center area AFFlexiZone AF/AE (300+ areas)	3 area selectable
ND Filter	Internal, menu option	None
Custom exposure modes	Two (similar to user memory)	None
Shutter speed	15 - 1/2000 sec **	15 - 1/1000 sec **
Manual WB	Two presets	One preset
Orientation sensor	Yes, with auto rotate	No
Focus bracketing	Yes	No
Manual flash power	Yes, 3 steps internal, 16 external	No
Flash sync select	Yes, 1st-curtain, 2nd-curtain	No
Photo Effects	Available in all modes	Dedicated exposure mode
Time-lapse photography	Yes, Intervalometer	No
Continuous shooting	1.5 / 2.5 fps, up to 14 images	1.5 / 2.5 fps up to 9 / 5 images
Movie clips (320 x 240)	Up to 3 minutes *	Up to 30 seconds
Self timer	2 or 10 sec	10 sec
Playback zoom	10x (10 steps)	6x (2 steps)
Movie editing	Yes, trimming	No
Play / record	Shooting priority	Switched play mode
Settings adjustment	Control dial on hand grip	4-way controller
My Camera menu	Yes	No
Weight (inc batt.)	481 g (17.0 oz)	510 g (18.0 oz)
Dimensions	121 x 74 x 70 mm(4.8 x 2.9 x 2.8 in)	121 x 77 x 64 mm(4.8 x 3.0 x 2.5 in)

DiGiC processor - a new processor which is responsible forCCD control, AE/AF/AWB, signal processing, JPEG compression, memorycard control, LCD monitor display).   Intelligent Scene Analysis based on Photographic Space (iSAPS)- Camera uses variables such as focus distance, exposure brightnessand cross references these against a large internal database of knownscene types and uses this information to optimize image processing.   Flexible AF point selection - You can now select from any oneof more than 300 positions around the image frame.

Images which can be viewedat a larger size have a small magnifying glass icon in the bottomright corner of the image, clicking on the image will display alarger (normally 960 x 720 or smaller if cropped) image in a newwindow.To navigate the review simplyuse the next / previous page buttons, to jump to a particular sectioneither pick the section from the drop down or select it from thenavigation bar at the top.DPReview calibrate theirmonitors using Color Vision OptiCal at the (fairly well accepted)PC normal gamma 2.2, this means that on our monitors we can makeout the difference between all of the (computer generated) grayscaleblocks below. We recommend to make the most of this review you shouldbe able to see the difference (at least) between X,Y and Z and ideallyA,B and C.

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