Canon PowerShot G5 X

The Canon PowerShot G5 X is a bulkier twin to the G7 X, adding an EVF, a hot shoe, and a vari-angle display. It's an excellent choice if you want a beefier compact.

Sluggish performance and a more limited feature set than similarly priced competitors hold the Canon PowerShot G5 back from being a leading contender among its...

Sluggish performance and a more limited feature set than similarly priced competitors hold the Canon PowerShot G5 back from being a leading contender among its...

Sluggish performance and a more limited feature set than similarly priced competitors hold the Canon PowerShot G5 back from being a leading contender among its...

With truly exceptional image quality from such a small camera, anything less than five stars may seem unduly harsh. The G5 X's performance should be better, though, and it's important to remember that – unlike the Canon G7 X and Sony RX100 IV – the G5 X...

The Canon Powershot G5 X offers a larger than normal sensor, with a 20 megapixel 1inch BSI CMOS sensor that is known to give good image quality and low levels of noise. Combined with a 4.2x optical zoom lens with image stabilisation, the G5 X gives more...

The PowerShot G5 X is a well-designed and easy-to-use premium compact that takes good quality photos and videos and offers a nice EVF and LCD on which to compose them. It's subpar battery life, so-so lens and sluggish continuous Raw shooting keep it...

The G5 X makes for crowded lineup, but it complements the rest of the G Series perfectly. With the G5 X, Canon now has four distinct—if not entirely different—options for people looking for a dedicated point-and-shoot camera. It's a bold move from...

Canon’s recent launch of the PowerShot G9 X and G5 X was designed to bolster its current range of enthusiast compacts. The G5 X sits above last year’s pocket-sized PowerShot G7 X, and it would appear that Canon has taken on board a lot of comments from...

On the cusp of 2016 there's an argument that chunky compact cameras have had their day. The Canon G5 X helps to counter that argument with a decent lens and capable 1-inch sensor, yet it doesn't offer a huge amount extra over and above the...

The Canon PowerShot G5 X is an excellent compact camera for enthusiast photographers, offering a very good built-in viewfinder, a fast lens, a wealth of options for shooting both stills and video, excellent image quality, speedy auto-focusing,...

Overall the Canon PowerShot G5 X feels like the best G series camera in a while – but still doesn't feel particularly innovative or “special”. The electronic viewfinder, large sensor, touchscreen and so on are all features that we'd expect from a camera...