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Canon Powershot G7 Prosumer Compact Digital Camera
It has been almost two years since Canon’s last release of a G series camera, the G6. The G series was once one of the best prosumer level digital cameras in an era when digital SLR’s were at least a couple thousand dollars.
The G6 and now Canon G7 fall into the “bridge” camera category. It “bridged” the gulf between an expensive full on digital SLR and the compact consumer digital slr’s. These cameras often had decent pixel counts and a higher zoom than the regular consumer models but were still lacking the full feature and functional set of a true digital slr. Things like full manual control, swappable lenses, extensive metering options, noise free high ISO shooting speeds were missing from even the best bridge cameras. Still, users could get most of the dslr’s pertinent features for about a third of the price of a true slr. Cameras like the G6 were good bang for the buck.
No longer. Since then entry level dslr’s have dropped by at least half in price and digital cameras have fragmented and developed separate niches. Ultra zooms, pocket compacts, waterproof and wide angles all can do specific things better than the all in…
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Canon Powershot SD700 IS-IXUS 800 IS
Canon’s SD700 IS is the replacement for the SD500 and SD550 digital cameras released last year. The SD700 IS or Ixus 800 IS is the first of the Powershot SD series to incorporate image stabilization into the camera housing.
The SD700 IS retains the new curvier housing style introduced in the SD500 but cuts the resolution down to 6 megapixels. While the new housings are more stylish they are larger overall than the boxier but more compact design of the SD450 type style.
Some key points of this camera:
- 4x zoom
- 2.5” LCD
- first Powershot compact camera with image stabilization
- ISO 800 speed 16:9 wide screen photos
The new widescreen recording mode (2816 x 1584 recording pixels) captures still images at 16:9 format – designed for viewing images on widescreen television or printing wide photos with a SELPHY CP series Compact Photo Printer. Canon did not extend this feature to the SD700 IS’s movie mode, probably not to take away from their digital video camera business.
DPreview’s full review of the Canon Powershot SD700 IS / IXUS 800 IS concludes:
“Whereas virtually ever other Ixus/ELPH camera I’ve reviewed over the last few years has failed, in some way, to produce…
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