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Re: resurrecting old thread - image quality G15 vs G16
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Peter in Canberra wrote:
AllFlawed wrote:
If you can live without an EVF the G1X II is a better bet as most of the reviews said the worst bits had been sorted out. The advantage of the bigger sensor is there and colours hold up well at high ISOs but the dynamic range is not the greatest.
thanks for that suggestion. Sounds like the optical viewfinders on the G1X and G15 and G16 are pretty 'meh' so that didn't worry me. I had discounted that camera because of the flash - it looks like it is just begging to get broken off with those little exposed hinges
In my experience the bits you expect to break never do. Fate likes to surprise you with the unexpected.
. The simpler, if lower, flash on the G1X, G15 and G16 (and the S110 & 120) looks much more likely to survive misadventure.
I just read some of the DPR review of the G1X-II and it seems a mixed bag - big sensor but not realising the potential potential (so to speak). A friend has been suggesting I get a Sony RX100 (of any of the 'marks') as its image quality is very good and it has the 1 inch sensor.
Stabilisation is reported to be very poor in the RX100 early marks and presumably reasons existed to bring out 5 revised versions of the short zoom one. From what I have read many think the Mk III is the best one to start on. No menu touch screen either but good processing, sensor and optics though not reputed to be the friendliest machines to use by all accounts.
I think the original G5X is the last of the Powershots which has an old type Canon G feel to it and I like mine a lot. Not for fast RAW frames per second though but I use JPEG. Always reluctant to recommend a camera as what we like is very personal to us.
I nearly bought an RX100 IV last week but couldn't justify the cost to myself. I would rather spend that sort of money on another dSLR lens ... (Nikon D7500). The idea of the G15 or 16 is to have a competent camera that is very portable with some nice controls but not super diminutive - a snap shot/beater camera to go in a backpack on a bushwalk ('hike') for example. The infinite depth of field of smaller sensors has some appeal for those sort of situations as well (for me anyway) - recording what I saw rather than artistic.
rambling now ...