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Canon G1x Mk III Review: The Update We All Wanted

Chris Gampat
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Last updated on 02/28/2025
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Last Updated on 02/28/2025 by Lara Carretero

We’ve updated our Canon G1x Mk III review because of major intrigue with this camera right now. And so you can find our full review right here at this link. However, we’re posting our specific updates below in the article you can find below. We talk about using various cameras, the weather resistance, and how it’s still a fantastic companion camera. Truly, no one has made anything like this even into today. You can find this camera online still for a pretty decent price.

Is the Canon G1x Mk III Still Great in 2025? Review Conclusions

The Canon G1x Mk III has weather resistance.
The Canon G1x Mk III has weather resistance.

This article originally wasn’t what we’d call a review because it was of a camera that was released many years ago. But due to high curiousity about the camera, our coverage is being updated.

It’s now 2025, and I’ve been using this camera almost every single week. There was a short period of time where after reviewing the Canon R5 Mk II that I had to take a long break from Canon gear because of how amazingly let down I was about that camera. But when I bought the Canon S95, I was reminded of a joyous time from the past. That, in turn, made me pull this camera out of the camera bag that I keep all the Canon gear in. It still worked even after getting dunked on in a rain shower. And more importantly, I loved the image quality even more after switching the lens filter out to a Tiffen Pro Mist filter.

A Polycamerous Relationship

Taking a selfie with the Canon G1x Mk III
Taking a selfie with the Canon G1x Mk III

Don’t get me wrong, I haven’t forgotten how a retro camera can be just that and not an overdue apology to brand-loyal consumers. But I think that poet Gabriel Janas puts it best in his book. The Initiation of Men: Poetry and Tales of Discovery. Gabriel says:

“Why is it that as you become older you find it harder

an harder to date? You meet new people and none of them feel right.

Is it the standards past lovers have set within your mind, or is it

your body’s natural instincts screaming NO! THIS IS NOT THE ONE FOR

YOU?! Of the seven billion people on this earth how are you suppose

to find the right one? How does love start in the first place? Is

it achieved with just a glance or is that simply lust? Is it the

comfort built over time that turns to love or is it simply a

chemical reaction to the safe and familiar? How important is trust?”

Gabriel Janas

This is the truth about cameras as well. I know many photographers who can only shoot Canon and specifically only the stuff from the EOS lineup. Put a Fujifilm retro-body in their hand and they’ll say words like, “interesting” which actually mean that they hate it.

But as a journalist running the Phoblographer for 15 years, I’m constantly in polycamerous relationships. Leica is my main partner while all the other brands serve their purpose. I’ve divorced from Sony, Canon, and Olympus before in the past — then decided to remarry some of them only to be divorced again and keep them as a side fling. Indeed, if you likened my camera usage to person’s relationships, you’d call me a mess and tell me that I need therapy. But you’d probably say that I need real therapy, and not shutter therapy.

The truth is that I like what I like. And as far as a compact camera goes, the Canon G1x Mk III makes for a phenomenal companion camera that you can not only carry everywhere with you, but you can truly adore. It’s small, lightweight, has accurate enough autofocus if you compose based on the center of the frame, has weather resistance, and has good enough battery life. Beyond that, I can actually attach a lens filter to it to get a unique look. And to make that even more spicy, we can use different in-camera scene modes like the Toy Camera mode to get something that you’d like right out of camera.

Rating: 4 out of 5.

As of February 2025, this is still the single best point and shoot camera that you can get your hands on that has weather resistance and a large sensor. APS-C sensors at this point perhaps belong in compact cameras the most. And this one is no exception. You can even use the touchscreen to quickly navigate through the camera menu with ease.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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