Digital Home Thoughts: Bob Atkins Reviews The Canon Powershot G11

"I don't do a lot of P&S digicam reviews here, but the Canon Powershot G11 is interesting for a number of reasons. First Canon made the rather bold decision to lower the pixel count from 14.7MP in the G10 to 10MP in the G11. This runs pretty much counter to the industry practice of cramming ever more pixels onto the sensor, no matter what it does to the ultimate image quality. Second, the Canon Powershot G series has long been held up as a leader in P&S type digicams and G series cameras have been used by many photojournalists who want to shoot digital but for one reason or another can't use a DSLR. The G11 boast a "low light" mode with ISO settings up to 12800. That's pushing things even for a DSLR, so I was interested in just how a digicam with a tiny sensor (and tiny pixels) can do in low light. "

It's expected that when a manufacturer releases a new generation of a camera, it has even more pixels that it's predecessor.  More is better after all, right? It's interesting then that Canon decided to buck the trend with it's Powershot G11, and actually reduce the number of pixels from 14.7MP in the G10, to 10MP in the G11.  Take a look at the review to see whether Bob Atkins thinks this has been a good move by Canon or not.