New to G series

[rossdebiasi]

Hi recieved my G10 earlier today and need to ask a ew q's.

never had a camera like this before as i shoot 40d all the time.

1) when shooting with the g10 do you use live view or the eye piece. I am finding the eye piece crap. should looking through the eye piece only show a portion of what is captured. also when the focal length is at the minimum and looking through the eye piece I can see some of the lens. is this right?

thanks

[Padrino]

Hi Ross, yeah, to see some lens part when looking thru the VF is normal and ok, because with P&S you don't get TTL viewing. The VF in the G10 is kinda tunnel vision experience, it's there not as aprimary viewing and composing tool (in this case that's the LCD), but can be useful when direct sunlight turns LCD impossible to see. As in almost every P&S, LCD is your full time VF, the optical VF is for extreme situations.

[rossdebiasi]

Thanks Padrino. Its my usual luck to by something only for it to arrive faulty so I thought I would check on here.

starting to fall in love with the G10, tried it with one of my 580ex II and its sweet. should prove a useful camera for meals out with mates where the dslr will be to big and intrusive.

[rang]

Hi recieved my G10 earlier today and need to ask a ew q's.

never had a camera like this before as i shoot 40d all the time.

1) when shooting with the g10 do you use live view or the eye piece. I am finding the eye piece crap. should looking through the eye piece only show a portion of what is captured. also when the focal length is at the minimum and looking through the eye piece I can see some of the lens. is this right?

thanks

If you find the 580EXII / 580EX / 430EX too bulky to carry around with the nice small G10 package...but you hate that Canon wasn't smar enough to make the 220EX bouceable...take a look at this:

http://www.wolfcamera.com/product/531665099.htm

I bought one and it is very small, powerful enough and you can bounce flash with it. It also talks ETTLII to your G10.

Plus if you think the view through the viewfinder of the G10 is crummy now...wait till you get the urge to pimp out your G10 with extra lenses via a Lensmage adapter (metal vs. the Canon plastic adapter).
You'll really become a pro at framing and shooting via the LCD.

;-)

-rang

[jaharris1001]

I just got my G10 today,, no camera info through the viewfinder? only on LCD? shutter/aperture and iso? I also shoot mainly with a 40D and this takes some getting use to, I also find this camera is not a quick/responsive as the 40D when wanting to snap quick shots, somewhat dissapointing as I had an old powershot and thats the reason I hated P&S cameras, I thought the newer generation would be more DSLR like in their picture taking and handling characteristics, I bought this mainly for a carry around camera when I dont want to haul my dslr, there are so many times when I'm out and about I see a shot and wish I had a camera, I just wish this was more dslr like :o

[Cali Agent]

Yea the 430ex is a little bulky but id rather stick with it than buy another flash.
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/17/l_a75f5f2b215945fba13212d7b6f932fc.jpg