The cannon G11 does what powershot cameras promised: professional capabilities with a fixed lens. The cannon G11 comes with a 28mm wide angle lens with 5x optical zoom. Being a semi professional camera, you can play with shutter speed, aperture settings, ISO easily.
This 10 megapixel camera shows why cannon is such a popular brand for professional cameras. The pictures taken in auto mode were crisp and clean, the rendering of colours were realistic and distortion was present but not obvious towards the edges of the photo.

Overall, it is a relatively light weight camera that allows you to take photos you can be proud of.