Canon G9 Reviewed
It’s not your normal digital point and shoot, it’s a 12-mega-pixel monster that might make SLRs go running for the hills.
The Canon PowerShot G9 has over 23 shooting modes and a 6x optical zoom lens. The numerous features on the camera have seem to really impress the people over at Business Week, who gave it a four out five star rating.
At $500, it’s pricier than many seemingly comparable cameras, but few have such a wide range of features. In fact, the G9 has so many features and functions that the instruction manual looks like a small paperback novel. You could literally spend an hour setting up a single shot. For instance, the “My Colors” feature lets you specify vivid, neutral, sepia, black and white, lighter skin, or darker skin. And within “vivid,” you can choose vivid blue, vivid red, vivid green, or delve deeper for even more customization. Other shooting options include user-selected focus zones, manual exposure settings, flash exposure compensation, light metering, video recording, and a two-hour voice memo recorder.
There was also a comparison made between Canon’s G9 and the EOS Digital Rebel. It appears that the image quality is negotiable between the two.
The G9 has a speedy, responsive processor that focuses quickly on objects. During a recent trip to Spain, many of the photos I took in Barcelona came out exactly as I remembered the locations. On that trip I also took shots with a higher-end Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi. With the exception of some superb image-stabilized telephoto shots from the EOS, I couldn’t see much difference in the G9’s photos once I downloaded the images to a computer.
Face detection and a RAW mode were also a big plus on the G9.
If you want to get the full story, Business Week has a glowing review of the Powershot G9.
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