Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark III review

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Apart from the sluggish zoom action, the PowerShot G1 X Mark III feels pretty responsive. You start it up by pressing a small power button on the top, and the camera has to extend the lens to get ready for shooting. So, the startup isn't instant, but it's pretty quick.

The autofocus is snappy too, as we've come to expect from Canon's Dual Pixel CMOS on-chip phase-detection AF technology. It does slow down and become a little less reliable in dimmer conditions, such as domestic household lighting, but in most conditions it's very good.

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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