Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III

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The Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III is a brand new premium compact camera for enthusiast photographers and videographers. The metal-bodied G7 X Mark III combines a new 1.0-type 20.1 megapixel stacked CMOS sensor with a 4.2x (24-100mm) f/1.8-2.8 zoom lens with 9-blade aperture and Optical Image Stabilizer. Canon have pulled out all the stops to make this camera more appealing to vloggers, including 4K movie recording with no crop, 120fps Full HD movies, in-camera digital image stabilisation, a live streaming function, 9:16 vertical movie support, clean HDMI output and the addition of a 3.5mm microphone input.

The Canon PowerShot G7 X III is a compact, well-priced camera which offers very good image quality, a fast lens, good ergonomics and the ability to stream live video straight to YouTube. Its lens isn't super-sharp at wide-angle, video autofocus is so-so, and live streaming is difficult to get working, but overall, it's a good value for the money and well worth considering.

The PowerShot G7X Mark III updates Canon’s most popular compact with some unexpected features which will delight videographers and vloggers in particular. It keeps the earlier 24-100mm lens and much the same body and controls, but adds a 3.5mm microphone input, the chance to live stream direct to YouTube over Wifi, and allows you to film vertically-formatted video for Instagram Stories and other phone platforms. The resolution remains 20 Megapixels, but the presence of a stacked CMOS sensor allows 4k video, 1080 slow motion up to 120p, and fast burst shooting at 20fps or in a RAW-only mode at 30fps. The sensor is probably the same as Sony’s older RX100 IV which means the G7X III may gain 4k and extra speed but sadly not the phase-detect AF introduced on the later RX100 Mark V which means the autofocus is less confident than the latest Sonys. Strangely the G7X III also loses 24p video from its predecessor and lacks eye-detection too. Indeed the superior AF and popup viewfinder of the RX100 VA is hard to ignore, but then it costs one third more than the G7X III while lacking the mic input, live streaming, touchscreen and slightly longer zoom range. As such while there’s some inevitable frustrations, Canon has debuted a number of unique features that will make the G7X III as popular as its predecessors. If you mostly shoot photos, you’ll prefer the longer zoom and viewfinder of the G5X II which still manages to undercut the RX100 VA, but if your focus is vlogging and general use without breaking the bank, the G7X III comes Highly Recommended.

The Canon Powershot G7 X Mark III offers some excellent new features, that will make it an obvious choice for video.