Every once in a while, a camera comes along that offers a genuinely different approach to its rivals. Some--like the first mirrorless models--go on to fundamentally change the market. Others aren't quite so successful. Either way, we welcome designs that think outside the box. The Canon PowerShot G1 X is the first large-sensor compact with a zoom lens. Its announcement last...
If you're using Apple's Mac OS X Lion, and want to work with raw files from your shiny new camera or camcorder, a quick download may be in order today, as a new update from Apple brings OS-level compatibility for a variety of new raw file formats to Apple's imaging applications.
The Apple Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.10 adds support for seven new cameras and one...
2012 is shaping up to be quite a year for photographers. We're only seven weeks in, and we've already had over eighty camera announcements, quite a few of them major. Over the coming days and weeks, many of these cameras will be becoming available. If you want to be among the first to be shooting with the most interesting models, though, you'll likely need to preorder.
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We've taken a little time with the Canon G1 X's Still Life images, making crops and doing our usual Print Quality analysis. Overall, we're pretty impressed with the Canon G1 X's test shots.
Check out the updated Canon G1 X Preview page to see how the G1 X fares against the Canon G12, Canon T3i, Olympus E-P3, Nikon J1, and Sony NEX-5N!
You'll also find that we've uploaded...
We've just posted our "Still Life" ISO/NR series test shots from a production-level Canon G1 X, straight from the lab!
The Canon PowerShot G1 X is the company's first large-sensor PowerShot model, and looks to be Canon's rebuttal to the burgeoning compact system camera market. It's based around a brand-new, Canon-developed 14.3-megapixel CMOS sensor that's almost as tall as...
Among photo enthusiasts--and if you're reading this news item, there's a fair chance you're in that number--the Canon G1 X is one of the big talking points of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. With that in mind, we conducted a public Q&A right before the show kicked off with Chuck Westfall, Technical Advisor with the Professional Engineering & Solutions Division at Canon...

As CES 2012 gets ready to roll, we've scheduled two Live Q&A sessions tonight that will let readers put their thoughts and questions to the manufacturers directly, on a couple of the most exciting digital cameras announced thus far. (Update: The Q&As are both now over, but you can read the archived sessions in our Canon G1 X preview and Nikon D4 preview pages.)
If you have a...
Canon USA Inc. has today announced three new PowerShot series digital cameras for the Consumer Electronics Show: the large-sensor Canon G1 X, long-zoom Canon 520 HS, and fashion-friendly Canon 110 HS.
Among photo enthusiasts--and if you're reading this news item, there's a fair chance you're in that number--the Canon G1 X is sure to be a big talking point. With that in mind,...