Canon G9
What a wonderful camera this is. I have now taken nearly 7500 photographs with the camera. It is my constant companion and is a little dog eared at the edges asa a result of being thrust into all sorts of pockets etc. There are downsides to the camera - one being the unusable image quality at anything over 400 ISO (just as an aside I still call this ASA - still thats my age I suppose!). This is not really too much of a problem as I grew up living with Kodachrome 64.
Apart from this limitation the camera has never missed a beat. It is made out of very solid metals, unlike many other compact cameras, another bonus as I am not exactly gentle with things - perhaps another way of saying heavy handed.
Canon now make the G10 which maybe a very wonderful replacement for the G9 but I just don't see the point in upgrading. Perhaps the only thing that would encourage me to upgrade would be an improvement in chip size (not Mb size) as this, I believe, would improve the image quality. However it will take a mighty good upgrade to part me with my wonderful G9.
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Amen to Simon's comments on the G9. I recently replaced my G7, which died an untimely death in Mexico, with the G9. Both are workhorses, and although I wish they had slightly wider angle lens, I have no plans of replacing with a G10 until a larger chip is available.
Charles "Carlos" Soberman
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
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