I have a G9. It's a nice carry-around camera that can still shoot raw. This camera fits in a niche between the point and shoots and the DSLRs. It's a heavy little brick.
The shutter lag hasn't been an issue, but I don't do any high speed action stuff. It's more than adequate for people pictures. This is an incredibly complex camera. It's an engineer's delight. They packed every feature they could think of into this little box with little thought for ergonomics. Buttons have several functions, some unmarked. I shoot raw files in the Tv, Av, or Program modes. This eliminates most of the confusing feature bloat. Picture quality from raw files converted with Photoshop/ACR is excellent. Pentax could probably clean up if they built a decent camera for this niche. The G9 is about the only thing in the price range. GS <http://georgesphotos.net> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:33 PM, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I got to play with a Canon Powershot G9 last weekend. Shutter > delay wasn't an issue. Admittedly most of the time I wouldn't > have noticed it, anyway - I was half-pressing the shutter to > see which AF point it was choosing (a habit I've got into with > my DSLRs; although I generally have the AF set to "select", not > to "auto", it's too easy to nudge the four-way controller with > my nose). Once the AF is done, even my ancient Powershot G1 > was quite responsive. But I did try a couple of shots where > I just pointed-and-clicked, and found it to be quite speedy. > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 06:13:13AM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> The deal killer is the shutter delay. In truth, I think the Leica is >> a clone of the Panasonic. >> Paul >> On Jun 17, 2008, at 3:43 AM, Anthony Farr wrote: >> >> > Steve Desjardins asked: >> > "Someone mentioned that some of the P&S cameras are starting to >> > fill the >> > niche rangefinders used to have. I'm not agreeing with this, but >> > what is >> > the highest quality P&S you can get?" >> > >> > A quick trawl of DPR's database got me these: >> > http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Sigma/sigma_dp1.asp is a >> > large sensor >> > compact. >> > >> > http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Ricoh/ricoh_grdigital2.asp is >> > the >> > latest digital version of the cultish GR series. >> > >> > http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Nikon/nikon_cpp5100.asp & >> > http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/canon_g9.asp are >> > Nikon's and >> > Canon's highest spec versatile compacts. >> > >> > http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Fujifilm/fujifilm_F100fd.asp is >> > Fujifilm's latest in the cultish F**fd series. >> > >> > http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Leica/leica_dlux3.asp is a >> > very nice >> > compact Leica. There's a clone Panasonic but I don't know its name. >> > >> > Mostly the cameras I chose are not ultra compact and usually have >> > redeeming >> > features to deserve cult status, such as exceptional low light >> > performance, >> > a good wide angle lens, good manual controls, good viewfinders (not >> > just the >> > rear LCD), RAW file saving, or they just look good. If a camera >> > doesn't >> > tick all the boxes it will be outstanding in one or more of the other >> > criteria. >> > >> > It's not a definitive list, just my feelings. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Anthony Farr. >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> > [email protected] >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> > and follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
