Canon G10. Your thoughts please...

[Tibs]

Anyone got one? used one? rates them? hates them etc?

Looking at getting a decent point and shoot camera, with scope for learning more about photography etc.

Read some online reviews, and it sounds ideal in many ways.

Any thoughts form you helpful people?

Cheers!

[fergusd]

It appears that the G10 is not much different to the G9, but you can get the G9 for close to 200 quid new . . . I don't think the G10 is worth 150 quid more . . . the G10 has a slightly wider lens which may or may not be important to you . . .

I bought a G9 as a point and shoot that allows pretty much full control and in that respect I'm happy with it . . . noise is an issue of course, but noise is an issue with all point and shoot cameras so there is nothing much you can do about that . . .

The IS works well, it seems reasonably well made, takes nice sharp pictures and allows you to do more or less everything you can do with a SLR in something much more compact, macro works very well and it produces RAW files which IMHO is a benefit . . .

$0.02

Fd

[CivicMan]

Difference in price now about £12 according to www.camerapricebuster.co.uk

[tog]

I got a G10 as a back up to 5D and a 1D MkII, and although it wasn't a bad camera I sold it fairly quickly for the following reasons:

1. It's still a compact and therefore useless at high ISO.
2. It's big enough that it doesn't fit in a pocket, so needs a strap / bag and if I have to carry it around my neck I might as well carry the 5D, (which to me is a small camera anyway as I've been using 1-series EOS cameras professionally for about 12 years now.)
3. As a result of 2 above I found I was never using it.

I got a little Lumix with a 5x wide angle lens instead (an FX-37) and love it. The quality is not as god as the G10, but it fits in my pocket and I take it everywhere, which is what I want a compact for.

In summary - if you're used to an SLR, don't forget that as good as the G10 is, it is still just a compact and so just as fundamentally flawed as they all are, but it lacks the convenience of a smaller camera to compensate. If you're used to compacts the G10 would be a pretty good step up from most others. (But it's almost as expensive as a DSLR, so think carefully...)

[CivicMan]

tog said:

I got a little Lumix with a 5x wide angle lens instead (an FX-37) and love it. The quality is not as god as the G10, but it fits in my pocket and I take it everywhere, which is what I want a compact for.

+1, but I have the TZ5. The G9 just doesn't fit in any of my pockets!

[Greendubber]

CivicMan said:

tog said:

I got a little Lumix with a 5x wide angle lens instead (an FX-37) and love it. The quality is not as god as the G10, but it fits in my pocket and I take it everywhere, which is what I want a compact for.

+1, but I have the TZ5. The G9 just doesn't fit in any of my pockets!

I have a TZ3, couple of years old now and a fantastic bit of kit. Well recommend one.

[tog]

CivicMan said:

tog said:

I got a little Lumix with a 5x wide angle lens instead (an FX-37) and love it. The quality is not as god as the G10, but it fits in my pocket and I take it everywhere, which is what I want a compact for.

+1, but I have the TZ5. The G9 just doesn't fit in any of my pockets!

My fiancée has the TZ5 and it's a nice camera. The FX37 is half the size of even that though. However the G10 is definitely much better image quality if you can be bothered to carry it about.