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.