Canon G10 Gary Knight from VII making the Powershot G10 the ultimate street camera

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if you ask me, pretty alarming that pro photogs at the level of Knight and Kratochvil need to do publicity to Canon...
Or I am being naive again?
 
I guess, I'm so used to the G5 (which is at least the size of my M4-2) that the G10 seems like a pocket camera. *shrug*

I have been surprised at how fast it is to operate. Something I usually gripe about with compacts.
 
That's prety much how I use the gx100 when I take it out, except that I set it to record a B&W jpg with the raw file. Only problem is the very slow raw cycle - much improved on the gx200 I believe.

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Mike
 
kully said:
Glad someone else is 'still' using a G5 :)
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Aye... it's the only digital I took with me for the 2 weeks in Panama. Rainforest damp, mud, sand and heat... it's a champ. I've considered replacing it with the G9, and now the G10 (we have one at the office, so I play with it plenty) ... but honestly, I don't see the real need. :)
 
I've got the quite-similar Canon G9. I wouldn't call it the "ultimate street camera", but it's smaller than an M6, less conspicous than a DSLR, and the images are quite decent. It's well built, but the lens assembly is plasticky and fragile. My brother submerged his in the bottom of a canoe a few days ago. He let it dry on a hot window sill for three days, and now it's fine. Of course I wouldn't recommend dunking it to start with.

For me it's my notebook camera that comes along for the ride.

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Antonin Kratochvil from VII too...

Hey, most pro-photographers I know do have a keen interest in cameras. It's a craftsman's love of tools. Though, they don't seem to turn it into a fetish and talk about it all the time, more about the photos/subjects and what equipment can do.

I loved reading a review by Christopher Anderson's of a small Sony camera. He said that his wife owned one and he kept stealing it because it was so small and portable and he liked the over-saturation of colours. He also did an amazing series with the Holga, limiting himself to taking only one shot of a given scene (I wonder if his wife imposed that rule in the end ;))

The G10 is a neat camera. Costa Manos from Magnum likes it too, but there'll always be something better coming.
 
i still use a G5 on occasion too. good 11x14's. i've gone back to film 100% and was trying to unload the g5. no interest in it, so i'm keeping it.
 
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