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G15 with its f/1.8 lens, good af, low price, and excellent image quality at <=1000 iso handle most situations very well and is a great deal.

G16 seems to address the fps issue for those needing...

I don't do much with Windows these days...I have it installed on a few VM's and with some old laptops, but my understanding is that until recently -- going 64 bit with windows was likely to cause...

If you have 6gb or less of ram and you don't run many apps that use significant ram, than perhaps 32 bit would be fine. However, you probably should run 64 bit anyway because the 64 bit allows you...

I can't comment on the S120 because I've never seen the point of settling for the reduced feature set for a huge reduction in size.  The G series seems to be the best compromise in my opinion. ...

96% of most tasks can be accomplished with the free 'darktable' raw processing software for Linux. 3% of the remaining tasks either with Digikam, the Gimp, or other open source software running...

Yep, onboard flash of g15 is sweet if one doesn't have to shoot too many photos continuously...if so, once the charge buffer is exhausted the recharge time becomes very annoying and the battery of...

You can get acceptable photos anywhere between 80 and 1600 iso on the G15.  You may be able to go to a higher iso in manual mode with raw, but I haven't tried it. That said, I'll try to stay...

If you plan to use nothing but your custom mode, there is no need to save to C1.  Just setup your preferred settings for Av/Tv modes including saving to RAW, aspect ratio, and default flash...

So, it looks like Canon kept the body and lens of the G15, and just updated the electronics to reflect digic 6 which gives a greater frame rate for video/stills, wifi, and faster A/F?  Sensor...

I've used Linux for about 18-19 years now...being one of the first to adopt it when it came out in the early to mid 90's.  What you say is mostly correct....however, it misses the larger...

G15 photos might be slightly off balance via auto white balance by default - tad too much red. The camera does tend to overexpose slightly, but this is easily corrected by making -1/3 EV default,...

Darktable has gotten much better.  There is a new minor release every few weeks and they are getting a good number of code contributions via github. Digikam development also seems to be speeding...

I'd just add that the fast lens of the G15 means that one can take both low light and normal photos at much lower iso than normal...which significantly combats the drawbacks of the smaller sensor. ...

I was torn between buying a G15, G1X, or Rebel dSLR nine months ago, and finally went with the G15 because I wanted fast focusing for kids/sports photos and frequently have to deal with low...

I have a g15 but not a G1X. The only image quality issues I see with the G15 are at ISO1600 and above, and I rarely need to shoot higher than ISO800 due to the faster lens that was included with...

I was dragged kicking and screaming into processing raw... - I have a G15 camera that takes great jpegs at a decent frame rate for a bridge camera, but raw is relatively slow on it. - My only...

If I were you, I'd try with: - Before taking the shot, take several practice ones...adjust general exposure (ambient light) so that the image background has reasonable brightness..then modify flash...

Just as an update, I've now managed to get sustained good raw processing while using Linux only software for the G15 using open-source darktable v1.2.1 - http://www.darktable.org/ Example...

The problem with jpeg+raw on the g15 is that: a) on the g15, many of the custom jpeg settings are disabled when raw is enabled....so no DR/etc which sort of defeats the point b) good raw conversion...

So, based on some earlier posts in this forum, I experimented with setting 'saturation +1, skin color -1' in jpeg mode on my g15 the last two weeks: In principle, the suggested change made sense...