{"id":490,"date":"2008-11-25T23:40:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=490"},"modified":"2009-07-21T11:56:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T01:56:11","slug":"its-not-all-about-megapixels-either-canon-g10-shows-canon-perhaps-did-lose-the-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Its not all about megapixels either &#8211; Canon G10 shows Canon perhaps did lose the plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September, I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=237\">a blog suggesting Canon had lost the plot with the megapixel race, in particular with produce a 15mp G10 point and shoot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/canong10\/page24.asp\">dpreview.com published their review of the Canon G10<\/a> and although a great camera to use and producing good images at base ISO of 80, as I suspected, image quality deteriorates rapidly as ISO increases which is exacerbated by a rather slow lens in aperture terms.<\/p>\n<p>Canon could have made a camera with much more versatility (ability to use higher ISO with reasonable image quality) had it stuck with 7-10 megapixels rather than just suck in gullible non-photographers who would think that more pixels must mean better image quality.<\/p>\n<p>Seems dpreview.com suggests the more conservative and cheaper Panasonic LX-3 produces better image quality at higher ISO than the G10, and with a faster lens to boot.<\/p>\n<p>The G10 will also be outperformed by similarly priced entry level dSLRs although these are much bigger, and it will be interesting to see how the forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photo\/photo_43rdMicro.htm\">Micro Four Thirds bodies<\/a> with their much bigger sensor but still compact cameras further erodes the G10 market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September, I wrote a blog suggesting Canon had lost the plot with the megapixel race, in particular with produce a 15mp G10 point and shoot. Today, dpreview.com published their review of the Canon G10 and although a great camera to use and producing good images at base ISO of 80, as I suspected, image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[44,18,84,85],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","tag-canon","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-g10","tag-lx-3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}