Screen and Menus
Canon PowerShot GX1 sports a real-image zoom viewfinder and has a 3.0-inch TFT color LCD (Vari-angle type with wide-viewing angle) monitor. It has approx 922,000 dots. The screen is however not toch sensitive. The easily handled menu gives an option of a variety of shooting modes and adjusting the flash, exposure, white balance etc which can otherwise be automatically adjusted using the SmartAuto. The shooting modes include Movie Digest, Portrait, Landscape, Kids & Pets, Sports, Smart Shutter*5, High-Speed Burst HQ, Handheld Night Scene, Beach, Underwater, Foliage, Snow, Fireworks, Stitch Assist, Smile, Wink Self-timer, Face Self-timer. The self timer can be adjusted to 2 seconds, 10 seconds or custom mode. It has Single, Continuous, Continuous with AF and Self-timer drive modes and supprts Continuous drive. Metering modes include Multi, Center-weighted and Spot.