Line shooting partner Canon G5 X Mark II professional camera into the pocket.

For travel photographers, it is very necessary to choose a suitable camera before traveling. Lightweight equipment can make your journey no longer tiring, and professional machines can make beautiful movies. If you want to have both, then the following camera deserves your attention. Recently, Canon's new professional portable card machine G5 X Mark II is such a portable and professional camera, not to mention traveling or portrait photography. In addition to being a necessary machine for traveling photographers, it can also be used as a backup machine for professional photographers. Today, we will bring you an in-depth evaluation of G5 X Mark II to give you a comprehensive understanding of this camera.

The design of the pop-up EVF viewfinder improves the portability of the camera.

"The design is simple, compact and easy to carry.

The appearance of G5 X Mark II is different from the previous model. The newly designed pop-up EVF viewfinder provides users with a viewing experience similar to that of a SLR camera. The height and weight of the camera body are obviously reduced, which is convenient for users to put in their pockets and improves the portability of the camera.

Shutter, turntable, flash and power switch button are all set on the right side of the top of the camera.

G5 X Mark II front seat button layout

Wide-angle end of 24mm focal plane

The biggest feature of portable small telephoto is that it adopts a super wide angle of 24mm, and has a wide focal length of 24- 120mm from super wide angle to telephoto, which can realize 5 times optical zoom.

120mm focal length telephoto end

The ultra-large zoom range can capture objects quickly and accurately under any circumstances, especially when traveling, and can adapt to the situation from dynamic landscape shooting to long-distance shooting.

Basic information of G5 X Mark II camera lens

In addition, the camera also has a built-in dual-detection IS optical image stabilizer, which can effectively realize the hand shake compensation function and minimize the shake when shooting in telephoto.

Right: USB-C interface supports data transmission; Micro c supports PD-E 1 charging.

G5 X Mark II and G7 X III both have one-button WiFi on the right side of the fuselage.

The size of G5 X Mark II fuselage is about 1 10.9mm (width) ×60.9mm (height) ×46mm (thickness), and the fuselage weight is about 340g. The volume of the whole fuselage is basically equal to the size of a can of coke, which will not bring unnecessary burden to users.

The LED flip screen on the back can flip up 180.

Another feature of the fuselage design is that the display screen on the back of the fuselage not only uses a 3.0-inch touch screen with 1.04 million pixels, but also can be flipped at 1.80 degrees. If you enter the video mode, the flip screen can open the recording function by touching, which is more convenient for young people who like to shoot 4K vlog.

"4K uncut video+double detection is the anti-shake function.

4K and anti-shake have appeared in Canon's newly released G5 X MARK II and G7 X MARK III, which are actually for young users or vlog video enthusiasts.

Let's talk about the uncut 4K video first. 4K is good at image quality, but uncut is to obtain a wide shooting angle consistent with the focal length of the lens when shooting, and it will not lose the viewing angle because of the change of the focal length of the lens, which is more suitable for vlog shooting.

4K uncut 24-focus video

1080P video without cropping angle at 24 focal length.

We tested 24 viewing angles with a focal length of 4K and 1080P, and did not cut the video. As we all know, if the camera only uses the sensor center to realize 4K video, the focal length will also change due to the change of the sensor use area. Under these two image qualities, the viewing angle of G5 X Mark II is the same, which indicates that the camera has not been cropped at 4K.

The double detection of IS is the compensation for camera shake when G5 X MARK II shoots video, which makes the picture more stable and improves the shooting success rate.

Turn on the anti-shake effect in 4K mode.

Turn off the anti-shake effect in 1080P mode.

It can be seen that there is still a big gap between 4K image quality and 1080P image quality. 1080P video jitter is more obvious when anti-shake is turned off, and the jitter of 4K video with IS blessing is obviously reduced.

The biggest difference between Canon G5 X Mark II and the previous generation lies in the design of the pop-up EVF viewfinder, which significantly reduces the height and weight of the fuselage.

About 2.36 million EVF viewfinder viewing angle

EVF viewfinder can be regarded as a miniature version of LCD viewfinder, and it combines the characteristics of SLR viewfinder. EVF viewfinder has the advantages of extremely low parallax and ease of use like LCD. EVF viewfinder is placed inside the fuselage like SLR viewfinder and will not be affected by too much ambient light like LCD.

"The maximum continuous shooting speed is about 30 frames per second, which supports the C-RAW format.

The camera supports the C-RAW format with the same number of pixels as RAW, but the file size is smaller, which not only ensures the image quality, but also saves the storage space.

About 30 RAW continuous shooting per second.

The new DIGIC 8 digital image processor ensures the continuous shooting and imaging quality up to about 30 frames per second. After generating GIF, you can see the continuous shooting speed of G5 X MARK II.

"There is no pressure to improve the high sensitivity and control ability of ISO 3200.

Canon G5 X Mark II adopts a stacked sensor with 2065438+ effective pixels and a brand-new DIGIC 8 image processor. This new sensor focuses on independent pixel layer and circuit layer, which can achieve high image quality and high performance in a limited area. It can record rich subjects, which can not only cope with the daily shooting of ordinary users, but also have the strength to act as a backup machine for EOS series users. Next, let's take a look at the image quality performance of Canon G5 X Mark II under different ISO standards.

2065438+ 10,000 pixels per inch is actually enough for an inch model, and the most direct thing is the high-sensitivity image quality of the camera. However, from the screenshot above, the picture quality of G5 X Mark II in ISO 1600 is basically the same, the picture is very pure and the details are satisfactory. At the same time, because G5 X Mark II adopts stacked CMOS with independent pixel layers, it is enough to offset the noise impact caused by pixel lifting. Even when ISO is 3200, there is no obvious noise, but at ISO 6400, the details begin to decline, but it is still within the available range.

"WiFi*** enjoys more convenient transmission.

Many Canon consumer cameras can realize the WiFi transmission function, and can be connected wirelessly with smart phones and other devices conveniently, which saves the trouble of using connecting cables and facilitates the sharing among various devices.

Download Canon connect software in the mobile app store.

Turning on Canon connect mobile phone will automatically search for the connection of camera devices, and then transfer the photos during shooting to devices such as smart phones, so that users can share the shooting works in real time.

"more canon G5 X MARK II samples:

Aperture: f/ 10 ISO sensitivity: 100

Shutter time: 1/8s exposure compensation: 0.0EV white balance: automatic.

Aperture: f/5 ISO sensitivity: 2000

Shutter time:1160s exposure compensation: 0.0EV white balance: automatic.

Aperture: f/ 1 1 ISO sensitivity: 100.

Shutter Time: 0.6s Exposure Compensation: -0.7EV White Balance: Automatic

Aperture: f/5 ISO sensitivity: 4000

Shutter time: 1/250s exposure compensation: 0.0EV white balance: automatic.

Aperture: f/ 1.8 ISO sensitivity: 100.

Shutter time: 1/500s exposure compensation: 0.0EV white balance: automatic.

Aperture: f/ 1.8 ISO sensitivity: 100.

Shutter time: 1/60s exposure compensation: 0.0EV white balance: automatic.

Evaluation summary:

The advantage of Canon G5 X Mark II lies in its uncut 4K and excellent portability. The fuselage is equipped with a pop-up viewfinder, which can reduce the size and reduce the visual difference when using. In addition, a five-fold optical zoom lens is added to the slim body, which can meet the shooting needs of photographers in terms of image quality and practicality. With the focus surround shooting function, when shooting macro or still life, the subject can be clearly focused in a larger depth of field, and the telephoto end can fully meet the daily shooting of scenery, people and figures. Coupled with the high-resolution 4K video function without cropping, it is very practical.

Canon) PowerShot G5 X Mark II

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