Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] OT Canon G9
From: rsphotoimages at comcast.net (Bob Shaw)
Date: Tue Sep 25 14:07:52 2007
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I'm a long-time Canon G5 (the other Black One) user.  Primarily for 
business shots, recording projects, fair amount of family stuff and 
some landscape photos.

I have to say it's been a great little digicam.  I really can't 
complain.

For this reason I auditioned the G9.  I really liked it.  They didn't 
do a dumbed down G7 - and they went back to black in a slightly smaller 
body shell.  Nice set of Manual Overrides, etc.  Really nice display.

It's on my short list to replace the G5 (it WILL die...they all do...).

My two shillings/centavos/pennies/pfennig worth.

Bob



On Sep 25, 2007, at 13:53, Philippe Orlent wrote:

Op 25-sep-07, om 22:06 heeft Didier Ludwig het volgende geschreven:

> The Ixus line is indeed a bit basic. I've something below this and the 
> Canon G line, the Powershot S3 IS, new for CHF500 incl 2GB sandisk 
> ultra-II and recharg. batteries (EUR320 approx). All in all ok as P&S, 
> quiet and compact, but only 35mm eq. on the wide side,

Exactly why I went for the Ixus: 28 to 105 equiv. instead of starting 
'just' at 35.
But man, what a bad lens it has: never have seen so much distortion on 
the wide end, nor such a low DR sensor.
Isn't worth its 390 EUR, 1 gig SD included.
Philippe

> AF sometimes slow or just wrong, menus sometimes fiddly, missing Raw 
> option. The LCD viewfinder is more useful than I had believed before.
> Didier
>
>
>> Just an Ixus 860 IS for about a week. Woudln't recommend it to 
>> anybody.
>> Philippe
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Message from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] OT Canon G9)