I have had my G2 for 6 months now. I have taken lots of pictures with it and have some thoughts I would like to share and invite comments on them.
I am coming from a Canon SLR background with my first being a Canon AE-1, and my most recent a EOS Elan IIe. I am an amateur photographer, never displaying publicly or shooting for compensation.
First, I like the small size. I never thought that much about the size of SLRs because that was the size they were. Not much to be thought of, until I started taking pictures with the G2. Small is nice.
The fact that I can shoot and view the pictures on the TFT screen is not as handy as I thought it would be. To check overall picture quality like subject head missing, etc. it is fine, but with the small size of the screen checking focus and fine composition is pointless unless focus is very bad.
Speaking of the TFT screen, this is actually the feature I most love. Given my viewfinder history, it took me a while to start using the screen for shooting. Now I love the fact that I can take candid shots, over the head shots, low shots, etc. without the camera being pressed up to my face. I am anxious to try a monopod over the head shot in a crowd as mentioned on the WWW last week. I wonder if future digital SLR’s will have LCD preview for composition on a swing out panel like the G2.
The pictures are generally quite good. The focus and exposure is not nearly as fast or accurate as my ElanII, but are passable and able to be worked around, though it would be nice if I did not have to work around them.
Like so many other G2 faithful, I have been let down by quality control at Canon and have a case with a hole in it, and a dead pixel group. While these problems are irritating and diminish the satisfaction I have with my camera, I do still love the camera. I having been trying to reach someone at Canon USA who can instill a little confidence in me that the problem will be solved without recurrence, but so far have had no luck.
That being said, I think it is time to frame the 8*10 that is dry out of my printer. Shot yesterday at San Diego Wild Animal Park, on the wall in under 24H. Welcome to the digital age.
Paul
I am coming from a Canon SLR background with my first being a Canon AE-1, and my most recent a EOS Elan IIe. I am an amateur photographer, never displaying publicly or shooting for compensation.
First, I like the small size. I never thought that much about the size of SLRs because that was the size they were. Not much to be thought of, until I started taking pictures with the G2. Small is nice.
The fact that I can shoot and view the pictures on the TFT screen is not as handy as I thought it would be. To check overall picture quality like subject head missing, etc. it is fine, but with the small size of the screen checking focus and fine composition is pointless unless focus is very bad.
Speaking of the TFT screen, this is actually the feature I most love. Given my viewfinder history, it took me a while to start using the screen for shooting. Now I love the fact that I can take candid shots, over the head shots, low shots, etc. without the camera being pressed up to my face. I am anxious to try a monopod over the head shot in a crowd as mentioned on the WWW last week. I wonder if future digital SLR’s will have LCD preview for composition on a swing out panel like the G2.
The pictures are generally quite good. The focus and exposure is not nearly as fast or accurate as my ElanII, but are passable and able to be worked around, though it would be nice if I did not have to work around them.
Like so many other G2 faithful, I have been let down by quality control at Canon and have a case with a hole in it, and a dead pixel group. While these problems are irritating and diminish the satisfaction I have with my camera, I do still love the camera. I having been trying to reach someone at Canon USA who can instill a little confidence in me that the problem will be solved without recurrence, but so far have had no luck.
That being said, I think it is time to frame the 8*10 that is dry out of my printer. Shot yesterday at San Diego Wild Animal Park, on the wall in under 24H. Welcome to the digital age.
Paul