Canon G11 announced

[Johnny Canuck3]

If you're looking for a true, pocketable compact, the G10/G11's are certainly on the hefty side. If you're after a small camera that fits in your pocket, the Lumix range is worth looking at.

They didn't have them apparently at the store I was in. I'll probably look at them today or tomorrow. There were a couple of nice Olympus cameras there as well.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

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[cybertect]

DP Review just posted some samples shot with Canon's S90.

http://www.dpreview.com/gallery/canons90_preview/

I'm pretty impressed with how well it handles ISO 800 and 1600. Bodes well for the G11.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Why haven't I heard about this Canon S90 before? (Rhetorical question). I will be looking for a replacement for my ageing Ricoh R5 in the near future. The Panasonic LX3 was at the top of my list, but this Canon looks to be a direct competitor. I wonder how many pennies it will cost. It is the low-light available light capability that I am interested in with its claimed low-noise. I will miss the long zoom of the Ricoh though. However if the image quality is as good as dpreview suggests then cropping is an option.

(Sits on edge of chair with anticipation)

 

[cybertect]

It was announced the same day as the G11 and got a bit overshadowed.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0908/09081907canons90.asp
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0908/09081906canons90handson.asp

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I see it costs £450. That is a lot of hours on my paper round. The Panasonic LX3 is about £100 less but not very obtainable. I had better sit tight and wait to see a real Canon S90. There is also an Olympus mju that is targetted at the Ricoh long zoom market the Mju 9000. However Ken Rockwell says that the Canon S90 is the 'best compact camera' based on his hands-on preview of a pre-production model.

If I could get a pancake wide angle lens for my Olympus E420 dSLR I wouldn't need a compact camera at all but they don't make one and if they did it would probably cost as much as a compact camera.

 

[starfish2000]

Ken Rockwell tends to divide people, he also contradicts himself a lot if you really read those Camera reviews in depth.

Mind you he doesn't have a Panasonic bias!

 

[cybertect]

Ken Rockwell tends to divide people

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Mind you he doesn't have a Panasonic bias!

He certainly seems to have issues with Nikon

As an historical note, Leica has been making 35mm cameras and lenses since the 1920s.

Nikon never made cameras until the late 1940s, or after after World War II. Prior to and during WWII, Nikon instead specialized in making instruments for mass destruction: long-range rangefinders for artillery, military binoculars, especially large ones used on ships, and aircraft bombsights. Nikon's instruments were instrumental in Japan's terrorist attacks against America at Pearl Harbor (there was no declaration of war, and the Japanese invented suicide bombing using airplanes: kamikazes).

Nikon's warmongering divisions were disbanded after WWII, and the few guys left at Nikon sat around and wondered what to do next