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The Canon G1X Mark III: Neither fish nor fowl

Started Jan 29, 2018 | User reviews thread
GaryJP
GaryJP Veteran Member • Posts: 6,604
Re: It’s sad
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KeepCalm wrote:

GaryJP wrote:

Certainly one of the funniest things must be those people who get more and more irate the more good images appear from a given camera.

If the camera is that much better it may drive smaller sensor users off the forum reluctant to post images which tends to happen.

I suppose in the sad competitive world of photography that is a victory of sorts. : (

I tend to think that it's usually much more of a matter of horses for courses. Some cameras do some things better than others and are easier/more pleasurable to use in some situations than others. Camera engineering is always a matter of compromise with laws of physics and the compromises Canon made here suit me. DPR sometimes seems to have one use scenario and - I guess - can only surmise Canon is so popular because its users are stupid or undemanding.

I am not knocking the G7X MkII because I still have mine, have taken pictures I like with it, and its's fine. I have pictures I've taken with much worse and older cameras that some people still like a lot so of course people needn't stop posting smaller sensor images. (It hadn't occurred to me that that this might be a factor in some resentment.)

VERY old camera, and I wished I'd had a better one with me.

But I think the hostile commentary from SOME people on the G1X III is extremely bizarre. I can think of NO camera I haven't used that I have an overriding urge to go out and diss to people who actually use it. I didn't get on with the A7RII but I DID actually use it, and I still talk about it in the context of the cameras i do like rather than head to the Sony forum and show my dismissal.

And I do think the DPR review of this camera is one of the least accurate I have seen here ever since I joined (which I think was some eleven years ago).

The one thing I DO agree with all critics on is that its price in the US is too high. It is selling in Hong Kong for about US$1,000 and I think Canon would have to better word of mouth for this one if they'd matched that in other markets. I am not sure I would have bought if for the US price, although I suspect that if I used if for a bit I probably would have not been able to resist.

Here's a close-up (slightly cropped) that some people seem to be having so much trouble with.

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