Take a look at the sea of point-and-shoot cameras in your nearby electronics store and you’ll start to notice that almost everything looks the same. Most of them are slim and compact, loaded with features (even the entry-level models), and available in a variety of colors.

With its dials, buttons, and large, entirely black body, the G10 stands out from the crowd by looking different, performing well, and taking incredible photos.

The G10’s design is reminiscent of a fixed-lens rangefinder camera circa 1965: It’s weighty and chunky with a lot of surface area on the metal body, making it nice to hold, and there are no body color options—just the same black that you’d find on dSLR camera bodies.

Dominating the back of the camera is a 3-inch LCD, which is plenty large for looking at photos, bracketing shots, and adjusting menu settings. Unlike compact point-and-shoots that do away with optical viewfinders so they can fit large LCDs, however, the G10 has room for a viewfinder.

The G10 needs about eight-tenths of a second to start up and a second to shut down. In well-lit environments, shot-to-shot times were about 1.7 to 2 seconds, which is fine but not impressive; in very dim lighting, it took between 3.9 to 5 seconds, and with flash enabled it took about 4.5 seconds.

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