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I was thinking of buying the G2 because as you all know it's got great lenses and overall very good image quality. but for the price I would expect a camera without any defects as those cracks and those problems with focusing.

I knew all these problems and I was still thinking of buying till today. I thought that the cracks problem was something that affected... let's say... 10-15% of all cameras sold and never evolved to a complete hole.
today I encontered a very nice forum dedicated to canon

you can see one of the posts about cracks on the G2 here (there are lots of them if you look at the forum index.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/viewtopic.php?TopicID=2566

now... I've also found something that made my decision clear... a poll with questions that I really wanted answered :

"Do you have a crack or hole in your G2?" so we can have a statistic about how many cracks there are among ALL G2 cameras, so even those guys that whose cameras didn't had any cracks have answered do this question. THE RESULTS ARE REALLY BAD !

the poll is here :
http://pub39.bravenet.com/vote/vote.php?usernum=3327235335&cpv=1

the results from the poll is here :
http://pub39.bravenet.com/vote/stats.php?usernum=3327235335

I mean... cmon... if 54% of all G2's have cracks, my chances of having one are really huge, and canon here in portugal doesn't have such a good costumer service, and I refuse to buy a camera that I already know I'm gonna send for repair.

canon should stop all G2 selling until they solve all their problems with the camera, I suspect that the fact they know the problem and still sell it as a perfect good camera without any defects is can be even considered illegal.

and think about it, It's almost for sure a problem among all cameras, sooner or later all cameras will get cracks, maybe some are holding a little longer, but let's say, in at least 2 years all of them if they are being used WILL HAVE the crack.

this is the reputation that the camera has now, have you ever thought if you want to sell the camera one of these days? who's gonna buy a camera that's not new and has cracks or holes?? no one buys anything with defects, only if the price is really small.

so... until further notice from canon I refuse and I would tell everyone not to buy any G2, they have the legal responsability to sell a camera in good conditions, especially if they already know about this problem...
I wonder if canon has any quality control over their production labs...

by the way I'm considering the fuji 602, oly 4040 and the new nikon...

I also wonder why phil doesn't have any full review of the olympus 4040z... I mean he has lot's of pictures, so he probably had the chance to review it. maybe the oly review would make many of us change our minds about buying the olypus 4040 instead of the canon G2... does canon sponsor this site?

I can't image the G2 having all those problems and the review almost makes it look like the best camera in the world, I red other reviews and they are not so fancy... at http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/G2/G2A.HTM

in their sample pictures they have the resolution of the G2 inferior to that of the Fuji 602 !!! and that's a 3Mp camera! (with interpolation to 6mp)

well, you've got a whole lot of pacience... thanks for readng the whole post, it certainly gave me more work writing than you reading. :-)

do not flame me because I like the G2 features but am not buying it because it has defects.
 
Is the G2 perfect? Not a chance. It has definite warts but even with the warts, I still think it's the best camera for the money. As far as the crack thing goes, I think it's overblown. It doesn't affect your picture quality and Canon IS replacing them so to me it's an annoyance not a deal breaker. In anycase, if you find a digi cam that is perfect, by all means let us know.

--
Eric
http://www.pbase.com/haglunde
ZéDasCouves said:
I was thinking of buying the G2 because as you all know it's got
great lenses and overall very good image quality. but for the price
I would expect a camera without any defects as those cracks and
those problems with focusing.
I knew all these problems and I was still thinking of buying till
today. I thought that the cracks problem was something that
affected... let's say... 10-15% of all cameras sold and never
evolved to a complete hole.
today I encontered a very nice forum dedicated to canon

you can see one of the posts about cracks on the G2 here (there are
lots of them if you look at the forum index.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/viewtopic.php?TopicID=2566

now... I've also found something that made my decision clear... a
poll with questions that I really wanted answered :

"Do you have a crack or hole in your G2?" so we can have a
statistic about how many cracks there are among ALL G2 cameras, so
even those guys that whose cameras didn't had any cracks have
answered do this question. THE RESULTS ARE REALLY BAD !

the poll is here :
http://pub39.bravenet.com/vote/vote.php?usernum=3327235335&cpv=1

the results from the poll is here :
http://pub39.bravenet.com/vote/stats.php?usernum=3327235335

I mean... cmon... if 54% of all G2's have cracks, my chances of
having one are really huge, and canon here in portugal doesn't have
such a good costumer service, and I refuse to buy a camera that I
already know I'm gonna send for repair.

canon should stop all G2 selling until they solve all their
problems with the camera, I suspect that the fact they know the
problem and still sell it as a perfect good camera without any
defects is can be even considered illegal.

and think about it, It's almost for sure a problem among all
cameras, sooner or later all cameras will get cracks, maybe some
are holding a little longer, but let's say, in at least 2 years all
of them if they are being used WILL HAVE the crack.

this is the reputation that the camera has now, have you ever
thought if you want to sell the camera one of these days? who's
gonna buy a camera that's not new and has cracks or holes?? no one
buys anything with defects, only if the price is really small.

so... until further notice from canon I refuse and I would tell
everyone not to buy any G2, they have the legal responsability to
sell a camera in good conditions, especially if they already know
about this problem...
I wonder if canon has any quality control over their production
labs...

by the way I'm considering the fuji 602, oly 4040 and the new nikon...
I also wonder why phil doesn't have any full review of the olympus
4040z... I mean he has lot's of pictures, so he probably had the
chance to review it. maybe the oly review would make many of us
change our minds about buying the olypus 4040 instead of the canon
G2... does canon sponsor this site?
I can't image the G2 having all those problems and the review
almost makes it look like the best camera in the world, I red other
reviews and they are not so fancy... at
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/G2/G2A.HTM
in their sample pictures they have the resolution of the G2
inferior to that of the Fuji 602 !!! and that's a 3Mp camera! (with
interpolation to 6mp)

well, you've got a whole lot of pacience... thanks for readng the
whole post, it certainly gave me more work writing than you
reading. :-)

do not flame me because I like the G2 features but am not buying it
because it has defects.
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I understand. The body feels week too. But i have learned alot with this cam.
--
G2 upgraded fron Canon S10, , Sony FD91, casio QV400
Print with Epson C80 Canon S520
Need Canon 9000 Printer & D60. Send Cash ! Humm Faster PC too.
 
You say for that price you don't want defects. Every digital camera at any price has defects. $5000 Canon 1Ds and Nikon D1X's have lots of defects. Your job is to get the camera with the defects you can live with.

Your Fuji 602 and Oly 4040 have plenty of defects as well. I bet you'll be happy with either one anyway.

Jason
ZéDasCouves said:
I was thinking of buying the G2 because as you all know it's got
great lenses and overall very good image quality. but for the price
I would expect a camera without any defects as those cracks and
those problems with focusing.
I knew all these problems and I was still thinking of buying till
today. I thought that the cracks problem was something that
affected... let's say... 10-15% of all cameras sold and never
evolved to a complete hole.
today I encontered a very nice forum dedicated to canon

you can see one of the posts about cracks on the G2 here (there are
lots of them if you look at the forum index.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/viewtopic.php?TopicID=2566

now... I've also found something that made my decision clear... a
poll with questions that I really wanted answered :

"Do you have a crack or hole in your G2?" so we can have a
statistic about how many cracks there are among ALL G2 cameras, so
even those guys that whose cameras didn't had any cracks have
answered do this question. THE RESULTS ARE REALLY BAD !

the poll is here :
http://pub39.bravenet.com/vote/vote.php?usernum=3327235335&cpv=1

the results from the poll is here :
http://pub39.bravenet.com/vote/stats.php?usernum=3327235335

I mean... cmon... if 54% of all G2's have cracks, my chances of
having one are really huge, and canon here in portugal doesn't have
such a good costumer service, and I refuse to buy a camera that I
already know I'm gonna send for repair.

canon should stop all G2 selling until they solve all their
problems with the camera, I suspect that the fact they know the
problem and still sell it as a perfect good camera without any
defects is can be even considered illegal.

and think about it, It's almost for sure a problem among all
cameras, sooner or later all cameras will get cracks, maybe some
are holding a little longer, but let's say, in at least 2 years all
of them if they are being used WILL HAVE the crack.

this is the reputation that the camera has now, have you ever
thought if you want to sell the camera one of these days? who's
gonna buy a camera that's not new and has cracks or holes?? no one
buys anything with defects, only if the price is really small.

so... until further notice from canon I refuse and I would tell
everyone not to buy any G2, they have the legal responsability to
sell a camera in good conditions, especially if they already know
about this problem...
I wonder if canon has any quality control over their production
labs...

by the way I'm considering the fuji 602, oly 4040 and the new nikon...
I also wonder why phil doesn't have any full review of the olympus
4040z... I mean he has lot's of pictures, so he probably had the
chance to review it. maybe the oly review would make many of us
change our minds about buying the olypus 4040 instead of the canon
G2... does canon sponsor this site?
I can't image the G2 having all those problems and the review
almost makes it look like the best camera in the world, I red other
reviews and they are not so fancy... at
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/G2/G2A.HTM
in their sample pictures they have the resolution of the G2
inferior to that of the Fuji 602 !!! and that's a 3Mp camera! (with
interpolation to 6mp)

well, you've got a whole lot of pacience... thanks for readng the
whole post, it certainly gave me more work writing than you
reading. :-)

do not flame me because I like the G2 features but am not buying it
because it has defects.
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Glad i am not missing mouments like this.





--
G2 upgraded fron Canon S10, , Sony FD91, casio QV400
Print with Epson C80 Canon S520
Need Canon 9000 Printer & D60. Send Cash ! Humm Faster PC too.
 
for me, the first thing i thought of when i heard that 54% of g2 owners has the crack was "when did they buy their camera?"

if they bought their camera during the first year of its release date, then yes, the statistics would be high. but ever since the matter has been addressed by canon, i haven't heard anything about cracks. personally, i purchased mine about a few weeks after canon made the announcement and my camera's still in mint condition. i even dropped it once from a 4-foot high ( 1.2 meters) loft bed and still no signs of cracking....

or maybe i'm just one of the lucky ones...=P
 
Well then don't buy it, most of us on this forum really don't care if you do or don't buy a G2.

Buy the way, all polls will be slanted towards the question you ask. IE, more people will answer a poll if it highlights a problem then not answer it if they don't have a problem. Statistics 101.

Just for the record I've beaten the heck out of my camera. Banged it into a car door, ding the front, fell off my bike and bounce off the pavement several times (it was in a paded case), etc, but it still takes awesome pictures.
 
I agree with you

but much of my concern is that this camera has a defect that can and will be solved by sending it to repair, but I don't want to buy something that I know from the beginning I'm gonna have to wait a couple of weeks (or more... I'm in portugal...) for having it back from the repair...

I want a camera that "at least" comes without any physical defects directly from the store.

and of course there isn't a perfect camera... but there is great cameras for the needs of each one of us...

G2 would be a great camera for me if it didn't have any of these problems.
and would be even great if it had faster and more accurate focusing...

it's a pretty slow camera to focus... and it's macro ability is also very poor compared to many other similar digicams out there.
but it has great, fast lenses and very low noise at iso 50

on the other hand... iso 200 and 400 has lots of noise... but I think the iso 200 is actually more like 400 and iso 400 more like 800, so that's good...
Eric Haglund said:
Is the G2 perfect? Not a chance. It has definite warts but even
with the warts, I still think it's the best camera for the money.
As far as the crack thing goes, I think it's overblown. It doesn't
affect your picture quality and Canon IS replacing them so to me
it's an annoyance not a deal breaker. In anycase, if you find a
digi cam that is perfect, by all means let us know.

--
Eric
http://www.pbase.com/haglunde
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the conclusion to the olympus 4040 :

"At 4.1 megapixels, you don't have to compromise a thing by switching from film to CCD. It's time to stop waiting for digital to catch up, because with the C-4040, it's here!"

the conclusion to the sony dsc-s85 :

Highly recommended.

the conclusion to the fuji S602z :

Highly recommended!

I'm glad you like conclusions, I personally like to read the whole review, and only after reading it all, I'll maybe.... tell my opinion about it.
ScottL said:
This is the conclusion of the G2 at the end of the review you
linked--->

"Very highly recommended, Canon's got a real winner with this one!"
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hmm... really? physical defects??

I would really like you to tell me something more about those, because I've never heard of something as bad like cracks or holes in any of the other cameras, they do have "problems" of their own, but physical problems like this kind that we need to send for repair... I never heard... maybe a little percentage of all cameras, but the G2 has problems probably with almost all the cameras, and those that don't have the crack will probably develop one in the future.
Jason Hutchinson said:
You say for that price you don't want defects. Every digital
camera at any price has defects. $5000 Canon 1Ds and Nikon D1X's
have lots of defects. Your job is to get the camera with the
defects you can live with.

Your Fuji 602 and Oly 4040 have plenty of defects as well. I bet
you'll be happy with either one anyway.

Jason
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No, I was refering more to defects that actually affect what matters, the final picture. There have been other hardware defects like DLS on the 707, the tripod mount breaking off on the S1, and I'm sure others. I doubt any others have been as widespread at the G2s.

However, anything that affects final image quality to me a real defect.

Jason
ZéDasCouves said:
Jason Hutchinson said:
You say for that price you don't want defects. Every digital
camera at any price has defects. $5000 Canon 1Ds and Nikon D1X's
have lots of defects. Your job is to get the camera with the
defects you can live with.

Your Fuji 602 and Oly 4040 have plenty of defects as well. I bet
you'll be happy with either one anyway.

Jason
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I really hope you're right, because if that's found to be true, if canon anounces something like... "all cameras shipped since july 2002 all have the crack problem solved"

I'd probably buy it... bu those focus problems are also something that bothers me, as far as I know it's not something that happens really a lot, but it's sometimes there and you don't really see it, the image could be better focused sometimes, but as the G2 as a great DOF you see the image and it looks like it's focused, but it could eventually be better... because the focus system is not accurate... also it's something that's very hard to see in the lcd of the camera, not like the nikon's that have a sharpening effect on the zone that is focused, I tested that system, it's awesome ! if only canon had that system... it would be REALLY great, but probably nikon has patent on that..
StevieO said:
for me, the first thing i thought of when i heard that 54% of g2
owners has the crack was "when did they buy their camera?"

if they bought their camera during the first year of its release
date, then yes, the statistics would be high. but ever since the
matter has been addressed by canon, i haven't heard anything about
cracks. personally, i purchased mine about a few weeks after canon
made the announcement and my camera's still in mint condition. i
even dropped it once from a 4-foot high ( 1.2 meters) loft bed and
still no signs of cracking....

or maybe i'm just one of the lucky ones...=P
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ZéDasCouves said:
I would expect a camera without any defects as those cracks and
those problems with focusing.
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So find something better, the choice is yours. :)
ZéDasCouves said:
you can see one of the posts about cracks on the G2 here (there are
lots of them if you look at the forum index.
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A very good forum, did you take the time to calculate the ratio of people who posted with a crack to those registered on the forum with a G2, because that would give a better indication?
ZéDasCouves said:
now... I've also found something that made my decision clear... a
poll with questions that I really wanted answered :
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A poll will always be skewed towards the positive answer of a question. A person with a cracked camera is far more likely to bother filling in such a poll than someone who doesn't. More importantly, that poll was run at a time when the FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) was running high.

Don't believe everything you see on the web.
ZéDasCouves said:
canon should stop all G2 selling until they solve all their
problems with the camera, I suspect that the fact they know the
problem and still sell it as a perfect good camera without any
defects is can be even considered illegal.
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Ummm ... they have fixed the problem. Surely you don't expect them to recall all earlier production cameras when only a fraction of them have a minor defect?
ZéDasCouves said:
and think about it, It's almost for sure a problem among all
cameras, sooner or later all cameras will get cracks, maybe some
are holding a little longer, but let's say, in at least 2 years all
of them if they are being used WILL HAVE the crack.
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How scientific.
ZéDasCouves said:
this is the reputation that the camera has now, have you ever
thought if you want to sell the camera one of these days? who's
gonna buy a camera that's not new and has cracks or holes?? no one
buys anything with defects, only if the price is really small.
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If I had the choice again, I'd still buy a G2. It still has far too much going for it than against it. The fear-mongers on these forums are a minority and I for one refuse to listen. My 4000+ photos are a testament to the quality of this camera.
ZéDasCouves said:
so... until further notice from canon I refuse and I would tell
everyone not to buy any G2, they have the legal responsability to
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Please tell all your friends. If they're like you, they'll believe every word you say.
ZéDasCouves said:
chance to review it. maybe the oly review would make many of us
change our minds about buying the olypus 4040 instead of the canon
G2... does canon sponsor this site?
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Yes, there is a major conspiracy afoot between dpreview, canon, area 51 and an organised crime syndicate that is based on the bottom of the pacific ocean.
ZéDasCouves said:
in their sample pictures they have the resolution of the G2
inferior to that of the Fuji 602 !!! and that's a 3Mp camera! (with
interpolation to 6mp)
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I can interpolate my G2 photos to 80mp if I want in photoshop. They'll look crappy, but it sure would look nice on the marketing collateral.
ZéDasCouves said:
do not flame me because I like the G2 features but am not buying it
because it has defects.
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Sounds like you were expecting this. I respect your decision and reasons, but the justifications are ill-informed IMHO.

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  • Rog
 
Proven fact that more people with strong negative opinions will respond to polls over people with positive opinions. I think that Canon probably keeps numbers of those returned with the problem, and it has been fixed in all the recent cameras. Most stores don't keep old stock on the shelves.
Pretty weak argument in my opinion as a reason to not get a really great camera.

Have a great day
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ZéDasCouves said:
I was thinking of buying the G2 because as you all know it's got
great lenses and overall very good image quality. but for the price
I would expect a camera without any defects as those cracks and
those problems with focusing.
I knew all these problems and I was still thinking of buying till
today. I thought that the cracks problem was something that
affected... let's say... 10-15% of all cameras sold and never
evolved to a complete hole.
today I encontered a very nice forum dedicated to canon

you can see one of the posts about cracks on the G2 here (there are
lots of them if you look at the forum index.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/viewtopic.php?TopicID=2566

now... I've also found something that made my decision clear... a
poll with questions that I really wanted answered :

"Do you have a crack or hole in your G2?" so we can have a
statistic about how many cracks there are among ALL G2 cameras, so
even those guys that whose cameras didn't had any cracks have
answered do this question. THE RESULTS ARE REALLY BAD !

the poll is here :
http://pub39.bravenet.com/vote/vote.php?usernum=3327235335&cpv=1

the results from the poll is here :
http://pub39.bravenet.com/vote/stats.php?usernum=3327235335

I mean... cmon... if 54% of all G2's have cracks, my chances of
having one are really huge, and canon here in portugal doesn't have
such a good costumer service, and I refuse to buy a camera that I
already know I'm gonna send for repair.

canon should stop all G2 selling until they solve all their
problems with the camera, I suspect that the fact they know the
problem and still sell it as a perfect good camera without any
defects is can be even considered illegal.

and think about it, It's almost for sure a problem among all
cameras, sooner or later all cameras will get cracks, maybe some
are holding a little longer, but let's say, in at least 2 years all
of them if they are being used WILL HAVE the crack.

this is the reputation that the camera has now, have you ever
thought if you want to sell the camera one of these days? who's
gonna buy a camera that's not new and has cracks or holes?? no one
buys anything with defects, only if the price is really small.

so... until further notice from canon I refuse and I would tell
everyone not to buy any G2, they have the legal responsability to
sell a camera in good conditions, especially if they already know
about this problem...
I wonder if canon has any quality control over their production
labs...

by the way I'm considering the fuji 602, oly 4040 and the new nikon...
I also wonder why phil doesn't have any full review of the olympus
4040z... I mean he has lot's of pictures, so he probably had the
chance to review it. maybe the oly review would make many of us
change our minds about buying the olypus 4040 instead of the canon
G2... does canon sponsor this site?
I can't image the G2 having all those problems and the review
almost makes it look like the best camera in the world, I red other
reviews and they are not so fancy... at
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/G2/G2A.HTM
in their sample pictures they have the resolution of the G2
inferior to that of the Fuji 602 !!! and that's a 3Mp camera! (with
interpolation to 6mp)

well, you've got a whole lot of pacience... thanks for readng the
whole post, it certainly gave me more work writing than you
reading. :-)

do not flame me because I like the G2 features but am not buying it
because it has defects.
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I agree, the real defects are those that affect picture quality, but I refuse to pay for something that has a defect that doesn't affect picture quality, but with time will get worse, and the value of that camera will be ruined, you won't get anyone to buy that camera from you for a fair price.

because.. yes... digital cameras for me it's like buy and sell in a couple of yers or something like that... at least for now... the time will come when I get my hands on a dslr with lets say 12mp, I don't think I'll never need more resolution than that... ate least for the prints that I do...

I a whole lot more concerned with thing like shutther lag and quality of lens, zoom, etc... than with resolution, I said 12mp, but that's maybe to high, I would be very satisfied with 4 ou 6mp as long as all the other things were good...lag, zoom, flash... etc....

my point is... I refuse to buy something that I know I'll have to send for repair for a problem that already comes with the camera from the store... this is against the law, it's selling a faulty camera for a camera that's supposed to be free of these defects.
Jason Hutchinson said:
However, anything that affects final image quality to me a real
defect.

Jason
ZéDasCouves said:
Jason Hutchinson said:
You say for that price you don't want defects. Every digital
camera at any price has defects. $5000 Canon 1Ds and Nikon D1X's
have lots of defects. Your job is to get the camera with the
defects you can live with.

Your Fuji 602 and Oly 4040 have plenty of defects as well. I bet
you'll be happy with either one anyway.

Jason
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I really do not understand the premise of posts like these? You came here to tell us you are not buying a G2.

Does that mean I need to go to the Nikon forum and explain the reasons I bought a G2?

I think not...
 
yeah... I think 54% may be higher than it really is, but at least we know that 336 persons HAD THE CRACK and voted on that poll, so I imagine that thousands of other buyers that don't use the internet, and didn't vote that poll exist, and they bought the camera and maybe didn't even notice they have a faulty camera, but with time cracks became holes, and I just hope that canon will consider all repairs for the cracks competely free of charge even if the camera is out of warranty for all those persons that will notice that problem let's say, in a year or somethign like that... here in this forum we are probably way less that 1% of the total G2 owners in the world, and we know that 336 of us have the crack problem.

so... yes you are still very lucky if your camera doesn't have the crack. and think about it... doesn't have the crack... YET.
bac522 said:
Well then don't buy it, most of us on this forum really don't care
if you do or don't buy a G2.

Buy the way, all polls will be slanted towards the question you
ask. IE, more people will answer a poll if it highlights a problem
then not answer it if they don't have a problem. Statistics 101.

Just for the record I've beaten the heck out of my camera. Banged
it into a car door, ding the front, fell off my bike and bounce off
the pavement several times (it was in a paded case), etc, but it
still takes awesome pictures.
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Compared to my Nikon f3, 801, leica m4p, rollei 6x6 tlr and crown graphic 4x5 the G2 scrapes the bottom of the barrel in terms of build quality and general toughness ( and that deflating shutter lag stinks ). But, and it is a big but, it can take great images if you can work around its shortcomings. I can live with mine quite happily until I can afford the DSLR I want.
 
Mind Socket said:
Mind Socket said:
and think about it, It's almost for sure a problem among all
cameras, sooner or later all cameras will get cracks, maybe some
are holding a little longer, but let's say, in at least 2 years all
of them if they are being used WILL HAVE the crack.
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How scientific.
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I know that I can and am probably wrong, but we can still expect something like that, after all the cracks appear because the camera cover is made a cheap material, and they are all made of the same thing, so I can at least think about the chance that all g2 will eventually have the cracks...
Mind Socket said:
Mind Socket said:
so... until further notice from canon I refuse and I would tell
everyone not to buy any G2, they have the legal responsability to
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Please tell all your friends. If they're like you, they'll believe
every word you say.
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like me? what? a costumer that likes a canon camera and considered buying it, but refuses to buy it because it comes damaged from the store?
Mind Socket said:
Mind Socket said:
chance to review it. maybe the oly review would make many of us
change our minds about buying the olypus 4040 instead of the canon
G2... does canon sponsor this site?
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Yes, there is a major conspiracy afoot between dpreview, canon,
area 51 and an organised crime syndicate that is based on the
bottom of the pacific ocean.
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well, why not? :-) but really, canon could be sponsoring, and the review authors would feel less the urge to report all these problems in the reviews... I mean they did write in the news when canon announced this was a large scale problem, but as a possible buyer I would like to know everything about the cameras before I buy it, that's the main reason for the reviews to exist. and I consider this to be a very important problem to be reported in the review. I know my chances of getting a fuji with cracks are a hole lot less than getting a G2 with no cracks at all... so that would be something to consider when buying...

and if this defect was not important, canon would not have made that announcement.
Mind Socket said:
Mind Socket said:
in their sample pictures they have the resolution of the G2
inferior to that of the Fuji 602 !!! and that's a 3Mp camera! (with
interpolation to 6mp)
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I can interpolate my G2 photos to 80mp if I want in photoshop.
They'll look crappy, but it sure would look nice on the marketing
collateral.
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uh... I know that... I was just saying it does 6mp by interpolating exactly because I know some would imediately say " you wrong! it's a 6mp !!!"

it's not, it's 3Mp and being a 3mp it should have less resolution than the 4mp G2, but imaging-resource says G2 has less resolution than the fuji.
Mind Socket said:
Mind Socket said:
do not flame me because I like the G2 features but am not buying it
because it has defects.
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Sounds like you were expecting this. I respect your decision and
reasons, but the justifications are ill-informed IMHO.
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of course... this is a forum where there lots of g2 owners... if I'm saying I'm not gonna buy, it's like saying you made a wrong choice... but that's not what I would like you to think... it's just my opinion, maybe if I had a lot of money I would buy it anyway... but I'm afraid to spend all this money on a camera that has these problems... only if canon made a statement like , we'll send the next shipment with crack free problem... all the serials started with a 5 are crack free... soemthing like that, I would buy it...

I know that maybe repairing isn't something so bad for you, but I'm in portugal, and it would probably take something like a couple of weeks to one month to repair here, because the camera has to be sent to another country... and that's something I don't want to happen to a fresh new camera...
 
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