stinu
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Like many of you professionals I was looking for the best to buy "have-it-always-with-you"-camera to fit into a normal pocket (which makes it necessary for the lens to retreat completely into the housing).
Since portability for me is a major issue (owing 12kg of L lenses and dslr cameras) the camera has to fullfill the following requirements:
-raw ability with good dynamic range
-good low iso performance
-reasonably low distortions, color fringing, vignetting
-compact & tough body, reliable operating, low power consumption
-manual control over all major settings
What seems less important to me (because you can't have it all - hey it's not a dslr!):
-high iso performance (honestly, how many low light shots do you take on travel/away compared to daylight shots)
-high framerate (I have to admit, the g9 is too slow)
-broad focal length range (even though the new 28mm of the g10 is a welcome feature, a wideangle lens is useless if it comes at the cost of high distortions. Better take multiple shots and stitch your wide angle panorama with ptgui and hereby get rid of lens distortions and keystoning at the same time)
-shallow DOF (depth of field) which would require bigger sensors which would require bigger lenses etc., etc. (It's not meant to be a portrait camera!)
Canons seems to have listened to its customers when designing the g10 which has improved optical performance over the g9. The G9 still serves me well, I would buy a future G11 (or even a Pro 2) which will hopefully feature:
- LESS MEGAPIXELS!!
- INCREASED DYNAMIC RANGE
- L-Quality lens (I would even go with a fixed 35mm prime)
- reduced shutter lag
- EOS 1 like body quality
- 1080p video (h264 coded; with optional 60fps for slomo scenes)
There are people out there pledging for bullshit feature like 24mm-210mm focal range; 2.0 aperture; aps-c sensor, 4fps, swing LCD. Do you really think that can be all squeezed into a camera to fit your pockets? Dream on...
Problems:
Lens blades are highly sensitive to mechanical forces. I have to admit, I didn't treat the camera like a baby. I ended up with minor scratches on the lens and the blades not closing entirely.
Since portability for me is a major issue (owing 12kg of L lenses and dslr cameras) the camera has to fullfill the following requirements:
-raw ability with good dynamic range
-good low iso performance
-reasonably low distortions, color fringing, vignetting
-compact & tough body, reliable operating, low power consumption
-manual control over all major settings
What seems less important to me (because you can't have it all - hey it's not a dslr!):
-high iso performance (honestly, how many low light shots do you take on travel/away compared to daylight shots)
-high framerate (I have to admit, the g9 is too slow)
-broad focal length range (even though the new 28mm of the g10 is a welcome feature, a wideangle lens is useless if it comes at the cost of high distortions. Better take multiple shots and stitch your wide angle panorama with ptgui and hereby get rid of lens distortions and keystoning at the same time)
-shallow DOF (depth of field) which would require bigger sensors which would require bigger lenses etc., etc. (It's not meant to be a portrait camera!)
Canons seems to have listened to its customers when designing the g10 which has improved optical performance over the g9. The G9 still serves me well, I would buy a future G11 (or even a Pro 2) which will hopefully feature:
- LESS MEGAPIXELS!!
- INCREASED DYNAMIC RANGE
- L-Quality lens (I would even go with a fixed 35mm prime)
- reduced shutter lag
- EOS 1 like body quality
- 1080p video (h264 coded; with optional 60fps for slomo scenes)
There are people out there pledging for bullshit feature like 24mm-210mm focal range; 2.0 aperture; aps-c sensor, 4fps, swing LCD. Do you really think that can be all squeezed into a camera to fit your pockets? Dream on...
Problems:
Lens blades are highly sensitive to mechanical forces. I have to admit, I didn't treat the camera like a baby. I ended up with minor scratches on the lens and the blades not closing entirely.