A Bit Disappointed with the G5X

Greynerd wrote:

You do have to wonder if getting a large sensor in to a tiny camera with large aperture is as much as a marketing numbers game as packing lots of megapixels in to a tiny sensor was.

That's possible. As well as an attempt to create new niches in photo equipment that might just help slow down the decline in interest in cameras a little. On the one hand we complain when manufacturers try things and castigate them when they don't.

Sony have not managed to get more than 3x zoom in to their version of the type and the stretched zoom in the GnX's just possibly pushes it a bit far.

I wonder if the G9X which is not pushing zoom or aperture may in fact be be the classier act. I hope Cameralabs put the G5X and G9X images side by side when they test the latter.

meland wrote:

AdamT wrote:

When I heard about the arrival of a G5X, I thought GREAT, finally a real serious upate for the traditinal G compact . when I then read that it was using the Horribly compromised optic from the G7X , well that was the end of that ........

What a Waste Canon ! it`s one thing sticking a lens like that on a cam the size of an S90 but the G5X deserved - no, DEMANDED a no compromise lens, sadly canon decided to cut corners hoping no one would notice.

Ahh well, back to the big bulky G1X

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A "no compromise lens" with similar specifications / price might have made it totally unattractive to most potential users, certainly in terms of size. The cynics may say they should have done better and accuse Canon of cutting corners (probably without any experience of the compromises required in lens design); the pragmatists might argue that the product meets their needs at a price they are prepared to pay.