Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark III review

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Normally, cameras as small as this come with significant handling compromises, but the PowerShot G1 X Mark III is laid out very well. 

The main mode dial on the top has a locking button so that you don't turn it accidentally, and over on the right side is an exposure compensation dial with no locking button but an action stiff enough to prevent accidental operation. Actually, it's perhaps a little too stiff if you like to dial in compensation with your thumb, but that's better than a dial that turns too easily.

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Rod Lawton
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Rod is an independent photography journalist and editor, and a long-standing Digital Camera World contributor, having previously worked as DCW's Group Reviews editor. Before that he has been technique editor on N-Photo, Head of Testing for the photography division and Camera Channel editor on TechRadar, as well as contributing to many other publications. He has been writing about photography technique, photo editing and digital cameras since they first appeared, and before that began his career writing about film photography. He has used and reviewed practically every interchangeable lens camera launched in the past 20 years, from entry-level DSLRs to medium format cameras, together with lenses, tripods, gimbals, light meters, camera bags and more. Rod has his own camera gear blog at fotovolo.com but also writes about photo-editing applications and techniques at lifeafterphotoshop.com