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Rick Rizner
The PowerShot G6 is a compact and powerful 7.1-megapixel digital camera that should appeal to advanced photographers. It's the latest in Canon's G series, which dates back nearly five years to the original PowerShot G1. The G6 returns to a silver body color, though we think the all-black G5 looked more professional. But the G6 is also about 10 percent smaller, making it even easier to shoot one- handed when you're grasping its chunky handgrip.
The G6's bright, 2-inch fold-out LCD monitor tilts and swivels, so it's easy to frame your shots from any angle. The eye-level optical viewfinder shows you only 80 percent of the eventual photo. A diopter adjustment lets you adapt the viewfinder to your eyesight, but it slides so easily that we kept knocking it out of focus.
The 4X zoom lens feels smooth and accurate. At wide-angle settings, it has an excellent maximum aperture of f2, letting you shoot at higher speeds even in relatively low light conditions. You can...