Judging by this nice pic and those on Flickr, you're taming the new camera fast! The Powershot G10 manual is a huge .pdf file, too big to print, horrible on screen. May I offer a short cut to explore? - namely, the nice bright screen. As an old-fashioned snapper I too was an optical-viewfinder person till I got a G10. But I found that some of the cool features (face detection ...) only operate if you use the screen instead. Then if you do, what you see is what you get!! Obviously in terms of composition - i.e., field of view - first of all. But in addition, to get things vertical/horizontal, you can switch on the rule-of-thirds grid as a reference (press display twice). And if you turn the convenient dial at top-left to under- or over-expose as needed, you see the result live on the screen. (In grid mode, on an inset exposure histogram too.) This is very useful! All together, I'm totally converted and use the screen now far more than the optical v-f! - best wishes, Bob the bolder PS - in low light, you can simply turn the ISO dial one notch from 'auto' to 'high' and let the camera do the work.
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Date: 2009-10-22 10:46 am (UTC)The Powershot G10 manual is a huge .pdf file, too big to print, horrible on screen.
May I offer a short cut to explore? - namely, the nice bright screen.
As an old-fashioned snapper I too was an optical-viewfinder person till I got a G10.
But I found that some of the cool features (face detection ...) only operate if you use the screen instead.
Then if you do, what you see is what you get!!
Obviously in terms of composition - i.e., field of view - first of all.
But in addition, to get things vertical/horizontal, you can switch on the rule-of-thirds grid as a reference (press display twice).
And if you turn the convenient dial at top-left to under- or over-expose as needed, you see the result live on the screen. (In grid mode, on an inset exposure histogram too.) This is very useful!
All together, I'm totally converted and use the screen now far more than the optical v-f!
- best wishes, Bob the bolder
PS - in low light, you can simply turn the ISO dial one notch from 'auto' to 'high' and let the camera do the work.