Why the PowerShot G7 X Mark III is the best compact Canon camera for creative content

Whatever content you love to create, expressing yourself requires tools that can help you unleash your creative spark in daily life. The Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III packs 4K video, a 20.1MP sensor and a flip-up touchscreen into its compact body, making it the perfect creative companion.

Whether you're a vlogger, yoga teacher, office worker, parent or musician, this pocket-sized camera can be used as a webcam for making video calls and wireless live streaming, through to recording outdoor adventures, daily vlogs and holiday shots. With portability, a versatile 24mm wide angle, 4.2x zoom lens, an advanced image stabilisation system for shake-free shots, built-in and intuitive easy-to-use technology at its core, the Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III helps you capture and share the moments that matter.

Here, three content creators – online yoga teacher and social media influencer Sarah Malcolm, vlogger and scrapbook expert Mei-Ying Chow and videographer and photographer Jamie James – share their experiences of how this camera helps them communicate their work, life and art online.

Vlogging her crafting creations

Mei-Ying Chow is a final year Economics student at King's College London with 90,000 YouTube subscribers. She's a scrapbook expert who has built her own brand over the last seven years with daily social media vlogs, and uses the PowerShot G7 X Mark III to document both her life as a student and her craft creations.

"I've scrapbooked on my channel for the last five or six years and have always kept a diary," says Mei-Ying. "For this shoot, I created a page for my sister's graduation, which was back in 2018. Because I'm not going to be having my graduation this year as it's been postponed, I thought I'd make the most of hers."

"The G7 X Mark III touchscreen makes it so much easier when I film close-up because the autofocus is really quick when you touch it and it's easier to hold," says Mei-Ying. She also credits the Canon Tripod Grip HG-100TBR for assisting her filming in compact student accommodation. The Tripod Grip is completely wireless, and comes with the removable Bluetooth Remote Control BR-E1 making it easy to use wherever you are.

"The small height of the Tripod Grip HG-100TBR is great as my room in my student accommodation is really small, so I rely on having a small tripod at the right height," she explains.

Clear sound is also key for Mei-Ying's online videos, with sound effects adding to the overall experience of the scrapbooking tutorials on her channel. The lightweight Canon Stereo Microphone DM-E100 plugs directly into her camera to help capture stereo sound.

When combined with an external mic, Mei-Ying says "The sound quality of the PowerShot G7 X Mark III is a lot better than my DSLR's built-in mic. The microphone is really crisp and I like the layers that it adds so you can hear the snips of my scissors and the different sounds so it engages all of the senses. I try not to mute those when I put music over the top because I feel like it makes it more exciting."

The latest update to its firmware makes the PowerShot G7 X Mark III ideal for vloggers like Mei-Ying, due to its new dedicated vlogging mode.

Live streaming yoga from her living room

London-based online yoga teacher and social media influencer Sarah Malcolm teaches her live yoga classes via Zoom® due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and needs a simple set-up for her students.

"I made the shift to teaching online at the start of 2020 when all my studio work was taken away overnight," says Sarah. "But the shift turned out to be really powerful and somehow held even more connection than before. The best thing about this set-up is the simplicity.

Using the G7 X Mark III to film her yoga flow, with a DM-E100 stereo mic for high quality audio, the PD-E1 adapter for continuous shooting, and the tripod grip HG-100TBR for stability, Sarah found this kit far surpassed the quality of her phone and laptop. The G7 X Mark III also gives users the option to capture a clean HDMI output in 4K resolution if desired.

"I couldn't believe the difference in quality when setting up the camera for my online classes," says Sarah. "The G7 X Mark III is lightweight, easy-to-use and has a much wider view than my built-in laptop camera, so it's much easier for my students to see more. Being able to see my framing on the 180-degree tilt-up LCD screen is also really useful, as it means I don't fall out of shot."