Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
We all watched in disappointment and even feelings of betrayal as Canon dropped RAW from it's digicams relegating the competent G series of Canon cameras to just another good point and shoot. The introduction of the 12 MP Canon G9 brought back the G series to the professional photographers'good favor.
Uwe and Bettina Steinmueller have been running a G9 diary "inspired by an article "The Canon Powershot G9 in Japan". They share details of their workflow and cover features pointing out the good and what might be done better. Now there appears a rather nice human touch of how one photographer, Paul Nakroshis, has had the G9 with him for the past 5 months and it has perhaps even altered the way he views the world, as pictures to be taken. Maybe we all do that to some extent!
So, what is your experience with the G9 and do you have this or another "carry-with-me-always" camera?
Asher
Uwe and Bettina Steinmueller have been running a G9 diary "inspired by an article "The Canon Powershot G9 in Japan". They share details of their workflow and cover features pointing out the good and what might be done better. Now there appears a rather nice human touch of how one photographer, Paul Nakroshis, has had the G9 with him for the past 5 months and it has perhaps even altered the way he views the world, as pictures to be taken. Maybe we all do that to some extent!
Source . Diary by Uwe and Bettina here.Paul Nakroshis said:For starters, I’m simply taking more pictures because it’s easy to carry this camera with me, and its unobtrusive in a manner that a 1D just isn’t. Although I’ve had my 1D for several years now, I’ve only taken around 8000 frames with it, mostly landscapes. In the 5 months I’ve had the G9, I’ve taken almost 1600 photographs. I take the G9 everywhere, when I walk the dog, go to the sledding hill with my kids, when I drive to work, even when I go to the grocery store.
As a result of carrying the camera with me, I end up seeing and thinking photographically much more often (Thinking photographically while driving on snow covered Maine roadways can be a dangerous activity!). As has been said, the only good camera is one that is with you when you need it. The G9 fills this niche very nicely for me.
So, what is your experience with the G9 and do you have this or another "carry-with-me-always" camera?
Asher
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