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G16 replaced my G15: some thoughts

Started Oct 15, 2014 | Discussions thread
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Re: Small sensors and the lenses for them

Henry Richardson wrote:

technic wrote:

Agree, a modest improvement should be possible if they don't try to downsize the lens; personally I'd rather see an even better lens with the same nominal spec.

But I'm afraid the recent trend in lens design for compacts will prove sticky ;-(

I know that Canon is not going to do something just because I want them to. They are a business trying to make money and will choose to do what they deem is best to achieve that end. They may even decide to end this line. Or they may put a 1" sensor in it and a worse lens. I make no predictions.

Since the G15 came out with the much faster lens though and the incremental improvement in the G16 small sensor it just got me to thinking that further incremental improvements in small sensors and further improvements in the lens make an attractive combination and alternative to somewhat bigger sensors with more compromised lenses. Not for every camera, of course, but I have grown to rather like the G16/G15 for certain uses.

Yep, trying to predict what a camera company will do is almost as bad as predicting next year's weather.

Carl
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