G9 Test Shots.

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Real life keeps conspiring to keep me from playing with it, but a few quick test shots.

Full contrasty morning sun - no flash..

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A pretty severe test with the sun right behind the subject's head and fill flash. The little on board flash just about copes. The good news is you can fit a flashgun in the accessory shoe, but fitting a zonking flashgun like the 580EX on top of this tiny camera somewhat defeats the object of getting it in the first place

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The more sensible option - moved into the shade with fill flash.

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I'm pretty pleased with the G9 I must say. Anyone who is used to a DSLR but wants a pocketable camera with plenty of control over the settings wont go far wrong at all in getting one. It's virtually silent unless you set one of the digital shutter sound options, so could be a useful tool for the street/candid photographer.

Like all cameras of this type, noise soon becomes an issue in low light or at high ISO, but used in good to reasonable light, it's capable of producing excellent results.

In normal usage it's good for around 200-250 shots, but using the viewfinder with the preview screen switched off, which I like to do, I'd imagine you could possibly double that.
 
Blimey CT - thats not bad at all! Even the CA in the first is 'reasonable'. Marks out of 10 so far for IQ & build?
 
Build quality is great. It's a chunky heavy little camera - all metal body, only the top plate is plastic. It's very DSLR like with the dials on the top plate. It outputs 34 mb jpeg files, and I'd say if you can keep the ISO low then it's near DSLR quality, so I'd have to say 9/10, but that's with the proviso that you remember this is a tiny little sensor compared to a DSLR. :)
 
Have to agree with CT's comments on the G9.
It is the perfect accompaniment to a digital SLR, because it is controlled much the same way (obviously with zoom being controlled in camera), and it produces stunning results, very close to dslr.

Upsides
-Its small enough to put in your pocket if space is limited
-Build quality is extremely impressive - I dropped one from about 3 ft up and it didn't even mark it
-Screen is huge
-Easy to use
-When used correctly, produces stunning results
-Photographers will be extra critical of the photos that can be taken with it, but to a compact only owner, the results will be really wow-tastic
-Macro function works excellently
-Has hot shoe so you can mount a flashgun or other equipment

Downsides
-Its a lot bigger than other compact cameras
-Due to the tiny sensor, pictures aren't as good as a DSLR
-Noise can rear its ugly head when used at high isos and reduce IQ
-In the wrong hands its a completely unrealised piece of kit :D

I would give it 9/10 also.

(I put a 580ex on top of it, and it looks absolutely ridiculous, but the results were wonderful :p)
 
Looking to get one of these soon myself, they look pretty awesome.

Was planing on using my 430ex with it, with the OC-E3 cable so it dosen't look quite so stupid :D
 
Slapo said:
If you have a raw file of the last sample, could you post it? I'd like to know how much detail can be recovered from those raws.

Looks like a very solid camera.
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Sorry ....not had much time the last couple of days, so I've been shooting jpegs.
 
G9 with 580ex on top...lol:

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Looks pretty stupid, the flash is bigger than the camera :D
 
CT said:
Sorry ....not had much time the last couple of days, so I've been shooting jpegs.
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Perhaps considering batch processing might not be a bad idea ;)

Btw., I use dcraw and UFRaw with batch scripts to do the batch conversion quickly and I have to say, UFRaw does a very good job, particularly with getting the exposure right automatically. It doesn't do any sharpening atm, but I figure that since you're a Photoshop user, an action might do the trick well.
 
Slapo said:
Perhaps considering batch processing might not be a bad idea ;)

Btw., I use dcraw and UFRaw with batch scripts to do the batch conversion quickly and I have to say, UFRaw does a very good job, particularly with getting the exposure right automatically. It doesn't do any sharpening atm, but I figure that since you're a Photoshop user, an action might do the trick well.
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I'm a Paint Shop Pro user actually from waaaay back. :D
 
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