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This camera is very sturdy. Its form is retro in style and is reminiscent of traditional manual SLRs and it casing is made of metal.

Unlike most non-SLRs, Canon Powershot is capable of shooting in RAW format. This gives the user very good control of the manipulation of the photo image.

Its image quality is excellent and can output to a rather high resolution of 12.1 Megapixels.

This camera has the usual works of a modern digital camera. It includes features such as CCD images sensor, autofocus and a full range of white balance settings. It sports an optical zoom of 6X, while its digital zoom is 4X.

This camera is excellent throughout. However, it does have its weakness. One of which is in the area of chromatic aberration. It shows some halo effect in areas of high contrast. There is also some distortion along the horizontal axis.

This digital compact camera is pack full of helpful features. It has advanced functions such as auto bracketing and image stabilization. Its metering systems comprises spot, center-weighted and evaluative functions.

In the department of Portrait Photography, performance is enhanced by face detection.

In conclusion, Canon Powershot G9’s performances approaches that of DSLR. It is clearly a notch above most other digital compact cameras. However, it is a bit on the expensive side and for less, the Samsung NV11 may be on par.

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