Setup guide

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Flash
◆ Built-in flash offers 15´ range with five shooting
modes: Auto, Red-Eye Reduction On/Off, Slow-Sync,
Flash On, Flash Off.
◆ Flash Exposure Compensation lets you
intentionally and independently adjust flash
illumination to fine-tune lighting ratios between
subject and background in fill-flash situations
◆ Because the built-in flash is somewhat limited, an
external hot-sync connection, compatible with
Canon’s EX-series Speedlites is also provided. This
allows longer range and greater control of lighting.
◆ Choose a second-curtain sync flash
option with or
without an external flash.
You can also set flash output manually (1/3-stop intervals from
full exposure to -4 stops) with external flashes and (weak, medium, strong) the built-in flash.
◆ At the top-right is the G5’s light guide flash, originally introduced on the G3. The light
guide design prevents the wasting of flash power that is common on “regular” flashes by
better focusing the light. The working range of the flash is 0.7 - 5.0 m at wide-angle, and 0.7
- 4.0 m at telephoto.
Advanced Autofocus
◆ The G5 offers two choices for autofocus:
use Canon’s FlexiZone AF to move the
focus point
almost
anywhere
in the frame,
or lock it at
the center.
Either way,
you get
precise, tack-sharp focus, from close-ups
to scenics. There’s also a continuous AF
setting – leaves the AF active any time
the camera is on – and single AF, which
updates focus when the shutter button
is pressed halfway.
◆ For macro photography, the camera can
autofocus down to 2.˝ at the wide end
of the lens and 6˝ at telephoto. The
vari-angle LCD monitor makes framing
close up shots easier.
◆ AE/AF Lock allows you to lock in the
focus point and exposure for a specific
area of a scene, then recompose and
shoot without losing the settings
◆ Focus bracketing captures shots with
the focus positioned at, behind and in
front of the current position. Ideal for
macro photography.
Three Metering Systems
◆ The PowerShot G5 gives you a choice of
three light metering systems.
—Canon’s sophisticated Evaluative meter-
ing reads tens of thousands of separate
areas of the full image, and is the ideal
metering choice for most situations.
—There’s also full-area Center- weighted
metering, which is perfect for shooters
who prefer to dial in their own exposure
compensation.
—Finally, for the utmost precision, there’s
Spot metering – which can measure a
tiny area either at the center of the
image, or can be linked to the AF point if
it’s off-center.
◆ Also feature Auto Exposure Bracketing
(AEB) whereby the camera records a
series of three bracketed exposures
(normal, over, and under). The bracket-
ing can be up to +/-2EV in 1/3-stop incre-
ments from the initial automatic setting.
Photo Effect Mode
Color saturation is altered to create 5 settings in any shooting mode. Plus Photo Effects can
be used in any exposure mode—not just in manual mode:
Photo Effect Effect
Vivid Color Yields vibrant shots with dramatic high-contrast
Neutral Color Produces images of subtle, elegant tonality
Low Sharpening Softens the image to create a soft-focus filter effect
Sepia Recreates the look of vintage photographs
Black & White Delivers enhanced clarity, especially useful when shooting text
POWERSHOT G5
Vari-Angle LCD Monitor
At every step,you know exactly what your
PowerShot G5 sees and how it sees it. The
image in the LCD monitor is true, bright,
clear and colorful, and contained
within a 1.8˝ frame. The vari-angle
monitor lets you compose shots at
a wide variety of angles: directly
overhead, on the ground, or at
waist level. The LCD monitor also provides a convenient location for the G5’s
advanced GUI which clearly shows you the camera’s status and settings. The
interface even allows you to choose one of 12 languages for your setup guide.
◆ The G5 can also display a histogram of the photo image on the LCD monitor. The
histogram is a graph with the horizontal axis representing "brightness" and the
vertical axis depicting the cumulative number of pixels that have that brightness.
It allows you to check the overall exposure of each photo, and if any portion of the
photo is grossly overexposed, warning signals are displayed.