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2.0 stars
"The VF is TERRIBLE"
Pros: Beautifully Made
Cons: No fold out LCD, Optical VF horrible, Canon Lens
Summary: This is a beautiful camera, solid, handsome, old school. The pix are pretty darn good.
However... There is a time and a place for an LCD, and a time for an optical VF. If you are going to put an optical VF on a camera, that piece of hardware should work. Instead, what we have on a $500 camera is a cloudy, dim, plastic bit of optics that makes a fifty year old box brownie finder look good.
Look, many people will never use anything but the LCD, but this is a camera aimed at the super-amateur photog who wants to carry something smaller than his SLR at times. We use optical finders. We like optical finders. We don't expect the optical finder on our $500 camera to be as useless as a clear plastic kid's telescope.
Canon has certain blind spots when it comes to real quality. Until they settle their issues in house they will never be the true successors to Zeiss and Leica.
Sorry Canon, better luck next reincarnation.
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Optical Viewfinders matter, Canon's have been consistently poor on their compacts: Ixuses x,y,z..... Presumably bacause most people get their pictures auto-printed and hence auto re-cropped! For serious users -particularly those who don't want to be changing to reading glasses while photographing- useable optical viewfinders are a BIG advantage. The G9 goes to the trouble of providing dioptre adjustment, why doesn't it provide a better registration? As a long time user of Canon cameras - from AE1 onwards - I want to buy a G9 but won't, maybe the G11 will come along soon. Cut the gimmicks give me an optical supremo camera I can keep with me.
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How many times do we read 'images stabilization" while we all now that the camer we have in our hands should be kept steady ? So what is best ? Keep an eye "in" the picture of a "still" camera or keeping both eyes busy (one eye on the display and another one on the subject) while holding the camera somwewhere at the end of one arm ? I did not see the G9, but I fully agree on fastfasshn's important remarks.
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How many times do we read 'images stabilization" while we all now that the a camera should be kept steady ? So what is best ? Keep an eye "IN" the picture of a "still" camera or keeping both eyes busy (one eye on the display while another one on the subject) holding the camera anyhow at the end of one arm ? I did not see the G9, but I fully agree on fastfashn's important general remarks, especially for this kind of camera !
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Canon PowerShot G9:
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