Re: Canon G9X vs. G7X, Sony RX100 M1, others
fbx wrote:
Strapped for cash and looking to pick up a 1" sensor cam that can outshoot my iPhone 6s. I was thinking of buying the Sony RX100 Mark1, which I've owned previously and thought well of. But the gets me into eBay and all that. So I looked at the G7X which looked good until I read some reviews that counted it poorer in the IQ dept than the RX100. Then I looked at the G9X which was considerably cheaper but has a lesser lens than the G7X, so I figured it would be worse. Some of the reviews speak highly of the G9, saying the IQ is pretty much the same as the G7 and ALSO pretty much the same as the first version of the RX100. My shooting is all over the place--travel, portrait, dog, art, general. No printing, but I might print if the quality was good enough. Been shooting a long time but by no means a "photographer," and certainly not a "good" photographer. Still, I see noise in images, stuff breaking up, unsharpness, bokeh, etc.
Need a little help with this, advice and consent, all that. Much appreciate any advice. Thanks all--
I have both the RX100 m1 (bought soon after it came out, in 2012) and the G7X, which I bought to replace the RX100. The G7X lens is much more ambitious, being both wider and brighter. This does mean that it's heavily compromised at the wide and, but so is the RX100 lens to a lesser extent (which doesn't get as wide). As already mentioned, the G7X has better image stabilisation. It also starts up quicker and I prefer the controls. It has WiFi, which the old RX100 m1 lacks (later RX100 models have it).
However, it also lacks the multi-frame features that you find in most Sony cameras, such as in-camera panorama, Hand-Held Twilight, etc, It's also a bit thicker and noticeably heavier. I shoot RAW, and it's annoying that the G7X has no buffer capacity for RAW shots, so you only get about 1 fps (the new G7X II fixes this) burst mode.
Oddly enough, apart from the Wi-Fi, the 2015 G7X feels like an older camera than the 2012 RX100 m1. It's heavy, well-built, but lacking in modern electronics.