Our quick take
Canon PowerShot G5 X II - 4.0 / 5
G5 X 2: What’s new?
- 24-120mm f/1.8-2.8 lens (5x rather than 4.2x of predecessor) Smaller scale design than predecessor Tilt-angle, not vari-angle LCD Pop-up viewfinder introduced EOS-like menu system
G5X II: Design & Performance
- 24-120mm f/1.8-2.8 lens with physical rotating control ring 0.39-inch 2.39m-dot OLED electronic viewfinder (pops-up) 20fps burst shooting (30fps to 70 frames in CR3 format) 3.2-inch tilt-angle LCD touchscreen to rear USB-C charging option (charger included) Built-in neutral density filter (3 stops) Bluetooth & Wi-Fi
G5X Mark II: Image Quality
- New 20.1MP 1-inch CMOS sensor Stacked construction, not BSI ISO 125 to 12,800 standard Digic 8 processor 4K to 30fps
To recap
A reinvention of the series, with its eyes firmly set on the prize: take-on the Sony RX100. In many respects the Canon succeeds, with a robust feature set and decent image quality in this newly designed form. However, its fairly simplistic autofocus system isn’t the best going.
