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You make a good point here but the reason for my and others negativity is that many of us actually like canon but wish they would do better. While threads like this do indeed invite the typical "canonator bashing trolls", who usually have poor photography skills and suffer from an inferiority complex, some of us are just venting in hopes that maybe somebody from canon is listening. I have always loved the G series cameras. They have always been made for the enthusiast. Now they are made for mass market appeal. The G1x mark II and G7x are cameras with an identify crisis. Canon as a company needs to reconnect with its enthusiast user base and leave the pocket cameras for the masses.
its way better than the original... and yes the GiX MkII is a niche camera, dont think its a 'mass market appeal' camera, and it is what it is, a large sensor compact, the only one of its kind, which I think is great. the G7X is like the spiritual successor to the S120 I guess, but the G1X, G1X MkII are just Canon's large sensor compacts, which provide DSLR IQ in a smaller package.
I guess everyone is entitled to an opinion.
No. They just don't fit YOUR niches. They are superb third tier cameras for me. (Behind DSLR and M43)
That's a relief.
I don't understand the IQ difference. The sensors are the same and I would think that the Mark II should do better because you learned from the first design and improved on it.
IQ? What? Do you own a G1XMII? Can you show us your photos from both cameras to prove you IQ point?
In order to fit the lens they had to reduce the image circle and so it went from 14.3 mp to 12.8 mp on the MII. Doesn't sound like much but side by side you can see the difference on the chart. Take RAW up to 6400 ISO and there's a degradation in resolution despite as some claim a slightly better lens. You think moire and chroma noise would improve but neither is the case.
I did not realize that Mark II went back to the old lens shutter mechanism, which seems to be the weakest link of compact cameras. Removable lens cap isn't that much of a big deal when one is used to DSLRs.
There are some parts of the image very slightly better in the G1X image, and some other parts very slightly better in the G1X.II image. On the whole I'd agree that at this level of minuscule differences the G1X.II image is ever so slightly behind. Between the potential sample to sample variation of camera bodies and the potential differences in the particular implementation of the chosen raw developer, they are for all practical matters very close to identical, IMHO.
