The Elusive G9 and the Impending S6 IS

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The Elusive G9 and the Impending S6 IS

Saturday, June 14, 2008

I have had my heart set on the Canon G9 for quite some time now, but I don’t want to pay full retail ($499.99) at a chain store like Best Buy just to have it. I have seen it as low as $429.00 (through Dell) and Amazon sold it for quite a while at $449.00. I never pulled the trigger when I had the chance, but now I don’t regret it.

I was about to succumb to the fact that I was going to have to pay full price for an electronic device, when I picked up the camera at Best Buy and looked through the view finder. I always research gadgets to the point of exhaustion before I go out and buy them. The tools of my trade (and I use that term loosely) are important to me and I’m very picky. I thought the G9 was the best consumer / prosumer point and shoot camera out there until I actually held it in my hands. I had read on the internet that when you are zoomed out, the viewfinder was obstructed by the lens, but it wasn’t until I looked through it myself that I saw what a pain it was. Ridiculous! I realize the LCD screen is real time and that my old camera didn’t even have a view finder, but I wanted something half way between a dSLR and a typical point and shoot, and the G9 didn’t fulfill this promise.

I love Canon’s picture quality, but the build quality of their consumer and prosumer cameras has never seemed to reach that of a Nikon or Sony. For example the 30D, 5D and 1D are all beautiful, but the rebel pails in comparison, it’s cheap, plasticy and poorly planned.

So now I guess I’m looking forward to the S6 IS. Hopefully Canon will give us (read me) a solid design in this model with image quality that is just as good if not better than it’s predecessor.