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Max
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Hi, I have put online some snapshots from a few-day trip to Hawaii, made with Canon G1. You are welcome to take a look and criticize: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~maxim/personal/HI/index.html
There are also a few things I learned that might be useful for those thinking of buying this camera. (This is my first digital camera, I used Canon Elan before.)
1. I regretted saving $200 and getting a 340MB disk and not 1GB. Somehow I clicked more often than I used to, so it filled up in 3 days (writing superfine large JPEGs), and then I repeatedly had to decide which pics to erase while in the jungle (also drains the battery).
2. I now have turned in-camera sharpening off, because photoshop does it better.
3. The camera definitely feels slower and more cumbersome compared to my Elan. But of course it's smaller and lighter and will be with me more often, which is what I was looking for. Also it's great to be able to check the picture immediately and reshoot.
4. An undocumented feature (already mentioned in this forum): exposures > 1s are available only in shutter or manual modes.
5. Many pictures (shot in auto focus and with short enough exposures) turned out out of focus, where autofocus should not have had any problems.
6. Obvious - a pocket-size plastic tripod is much better than nothing.
7. I was amazed how I did not have to adjust any colors in photoshop at all, this is such an improvement from slides on photo-CD. (Of course all my G1 pictures so far were taken in the daylight, nothing really challenging.)
8. The dynamic range of the images is also amazing, compared to film scans I had so far. For example, here is a picture shot in the program mode, all auto, no corrections:
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~maxim/personal/HI/0284.html
I was surprised to see detail in the black lava rock and in the clouds at the same time (hope your monitor is similar to mine). For most images, the camera recorded more than enough brightness levels to have the freedom to choose the right level range in photoshop.
So in the end, I like this camera for its color accuracy, dynamic depth and f/2.0 aperture, and I hope to get used to its slowness. Hope this is useful for somebody.
There are also a few things I learned that might be useful for those thinking of buying this camera. (This is my first digital camera, I used Canon Elan before.)
1. I regretted saving $200 and getting a 340MB disk and not 1GB. Somehow I clicked more often than I used to, so it filled up in 3 days (writing superfine large JPEGs), and then I repeatedly had to decide which pics to erase while in the jungle (also drains the battery).
2. I now have turned in-camera sharpening off, because photoshop does it better.
3. The camera definitely feels slower and more cumbersome compared to my Elan. But of course it's smaller and lighter and will be with me more often, which is what I was looking for. Also it's great to be able to check the picture immediately and reshoot.
4. An undocumented feature (already mentioned in this forum): exposures > 1s are available only in shutter or manual modes.
5. Many pictures (shot in auto focus and with short enough exposures) turned out out of focus, where autofocus should not have had any problems.
6. Obvious - a pocket-size plastic tripod is much better than nothing.
7. I was amazed how I did not have to adjust any colors in photoshop at all, this is such an improvement from slides on photo-CD. (Of course all my G1 pictures so far were taken in the daylight, nothing really challenging.)
8. The dynamic range of the images is also amazing, compared to film scans I had so far. For example, here is a picture shot in the program mode, all auto, no corrections:
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~maxim/personal/HI/0284.html
I was surprised to see detail in the black lava rock and in the clouds at the same time (hope your monitor is similar to mine). For most images, the camera recorded more than enough brightness levels to have the freedom to choose the right level range in photoshop.
So in the end, I like this camera for its color accuracy, dynamic depth and f/2.0 aperture, and I hope to get used to its slowness. Hope this is useful for somebody.
