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I'm Lori Brennan and this is the canon powershot g16 the g15 was a good enthusiast compact in the g 16 is a respectable follow-up to that model though he uses the same sensor lens and pretty much everything else it's generally a lot faster with the tweaked body and roughly the same photo quality new features include pretty man Wi-Fi support and a bump to 1080 30p video plus some long exposure night shooting modes it's large with a shallow grip but it feels solid and substantial I still miss the articulated LCD that Canon dropped two generations ago but the optical viewfinder is surprisingly quite usable the controls remain pretty easy to access and operate though I still think the placement of the front dial is awkward and the record button is too hard to feel impress and the more I use it the more annoyed I get by the function menu operation you have to press the button again to dismiss it it really should automatically go away when you press another control like the menu button well JPEG photos don't really stand up to a pixel peeping level of scrutiny beyond ISO 200 you can get more mileage out of RAW files as high as ISO 800 even for prints I think Canon has pushed the one over one point 7 inch sensor as far as it can go even at 12 megapixels the G 16 is a lot speedier in most respects than the g15 they're using raw still noticeably slower than JPEG the continuous shooting is significantly better up to five point eight frames per second with autofocus the low-light focus still feels a bit sluggish though well it doesn't offer best-in-class photo quality like the more expensive Sony rx100 it does have the viewfinder and hotshoe that the sony lacks it remains a good all-around option for advanced photographers who like unibody pocket ability I'm Laurie grinning and this is the canon powershot g 16