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Is Canon done making powershots?

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Chris 222 Senior Member • Posts: 1,981
Re: G1x Mk iv on Steroids (baby R7)
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Swerky wrote:

Rohith Thumati wrote:

gaul wrote:

If only Canon would read our mind and treat us with a G1x Mk iv on Steroids (baby R7)

I can go back to sleep and have sweet dreams... but that would be awesome

Gaul

What does a "G1x Mk iv on steroids” mean to you, a G1X III with the R7’s sensor and processor?

I like my G1X III a lot, but a Mk IV needs a brighter lens,

Why?! I shoot quite a bit in low light and I've never had a problem with this.

and possibly a larger zoom range.

A 20-60 lens equivalent would be ideal, and still compact enough.

Canon certainly knows how to make longer zooms (remember the wonderful Pro1?) but with an APSC sensor, physics would turn the whole cam into a much larger item, definitely not pocketable.

Otherwise, it’ll get the same market response as the Mk III did, unfortunately.

That's entirely Canon Marketing's fault. Nothing to do with the cam itself.

A combination of the Mk III’s features (articulating screen, EVF, weather sealing), the R7’s processor and sensor, and G1X Mark II’s lens spec (in terms of full frame-equivalent focal length range and f-stop) and size would be an amazing travel/hiking camera. Personally, I’d be fine with using a crop of the sensor (like the LX100’s do) to get a smaller camera if need be, since that’d still be ~27 MP, which is plenty.

Of course, it’d be a $1,300+ camera at that point, probably ...

I'd go with that for the only reason that a faster zoom lens doesn't exist on Canon crop sensor mirrorless, not ef-m nor rf-s, and probably never will. The G1X III's 15-45 f2.8-5.6 is unique to it. And also the G1X III is entirely weather resistant, including the lens. No sealed lens on all crop sensor Canon mounts lenses (except on some third party). I've been taking my G1X III on hikes, to the beach,...so far worry free.

Same experience here, and across my large photo community as well.

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