G7X Mark II after 1 week

Background : I've been using the G7X II for only one week. Formerly, I owned a M43 gear (Pana and Oly), RX100 and Sony NEX.

Major pros

• The handling is perfect given the size and the UI is impressively useable. The camera permits fast and reliable access to most important shooting parameters, and not only by using the touch screen. It is not only the touch screen, or the buttons or whatever. It is an addition of many small details which put together, at the end, provide a very useable photographic tool despite the small size, rather than an engineer dream.
• The lens has more reach and is globaly (much) faster than competition
• Whith a decent RAW converter and without a lens profile applied, the lens is significantly wider than 24mm eqFF
• When leaved uncorrected in post, the heavy lens distrotion (wide angle) allows to stretch borders less (more natural shapes on the edges), without a loss of resolution
• The touch screen helps a lot to focus accurately (a misfocus leads to a discard, not a little border softness)
• Stabilization is efficient. It's difficult to mesaure IMO but event in video, one can get stable footage.

Pros

• The lens is sharp on the long side
• The sensor is very efficient given its small size : DR is OK despite not a the level of a M43, not to speak abot larger formats ; about noise, I find the camera perfectly useable up to 1600ISO, which is OK given the lens speed
• AF is quick and reliable, and SERVO (the Canon name of continuous AF) works fine with a fixed focus area (no tracking)
• Shooting RAW with PP with Capture One Pro improves massively the IQ and permits to overcome most of the IQ flaws
• The wifi and sharing/sync system is by far the most convenient that I've used so far (Olympus and Panasonic). NFC helps
• The screen is not fully articulated but rather flips up and down
• The smooth or "clicky" lens ring

Minor cons

• The lens could be a little sharper (or the anti-aliasing filter less strong, or both). But as it, it is perfectly useable for prints up to A3 or 4K viewing, and most flaws can be fixed in post with a good RAW converter
• The UI is not as much customisable than peers. It would be a big cons if the UI was not really very nice as it
• No 4K : for some people it would matter a lot. Personally, I used to own a 4K Panasonic camera but I never used 4K so I don't really care
• There is a so called "macro" focus mode but I'm not able to understand the point
• I couldn't find a Direct-Wifi option (starting a Direct Wifi connection by NFC would be very convenient)
• There could be more setting tweaks everywhere (like focus and exposure bracketting for instance, or finer tuning of ISO Auto) but on the other hand, the camera does what it is supposed to do, while remaining simple. Things seem to have been designed by a photographer with the uses cases in mind, and not by an engineer obsessed by exhaustivity.

Cons

• When corrected so as to keep lines straight, the heavy lens distortion produces softness on the WA side (noticeable up to 30mm eqFF)
• The zoom lever has only one speed (I would like a slow zoom when pressing gently)
• Continuous AF is not useable with tracking
• Sample variation (I would not buy if I cannot return easily)
• The built in flash cannot master an E-TTL slave

Firmware update requests

• Better customisation of the functions assined to the lens ring and back wheel. Example : I usually like step-by-step zoom with the lens ring (with the "main" program function on the back wheel) but I would like that when switching to MF, the lens ring becomes employed for focus
• With the zoom lever, one should be able to select only 24mm, 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm and 100mm eqFF, step by step, as the leng ring can do when in "click" mode.
• When zoom is assigned to the lens ring, I wish I could use the zoom lever to select ISO quickly, or other functions
• Why no 70mm step ? the gap between 50 and 85mm is large, and 70mm means something after all
• With face detection, the focussed eye is not always the closest one
• It would be nice if the C program gave access to multiple custom modes (C1, C2, C3), each customizable (and nameable) so as to be able to recall custom settings for various shooting situations (macro, sport, landscape, underwater ...). In additions, such settings could be assignable to the AUTO or SCN programs on the upper wheel.
• The android app is nice but should be improved. Example : battery-efficient GPS tracking, starting at startup
• I would be happy to be able to use the exposure compensation wheel for flash exposure compensation