I Got A Canon G7 Yesterday

[Khutan]

A chain of events has led me to upgrade my Canon S10 to a Canon G7.

Last week I had to buy a new printer and I realised that the images I was printing were not good enough for the printer.

So I decided that as people say the crossover from film to digital is 8 Mp so I feel that a 10Mp camera should serve me well for I hope 5 years or so.

I am very happy with the results, and the usual tests, seem to be very good.

I had to do some searching as they seem out of stock, so I went to Fortune in the hope I could get one for about 22k Baht, and I found a shop that had them on special at 18,700 with a 1Gb chip. So in all I was very happy.

I had to buy an SD adaptor for the computer at 199 Baht, so for just under 19k I think I have set myself for the next few years

[Khutan]

I think that Photobucket has compressed the image, and I can't upload a 3 meg image onto Thaivisa, so this is the Silver Arrow.

People tell me that metal is the most difficult to represent, and I think I have a good representation here.

No, its no good, scaled to 800x600 where can I get large images hosted ?

[Tywais]

Probably difficult to find sites (free) for multi-megabyte images. Here is one I found that allows up to 5MByte images > http://www.imagefilez.com/service.php Only 5GB of space and bandwidth, but for your larger images it may be ok and use your existing account and resize for other purposes.

[Khutan]

Thanks, I will have a look at that a bit later

[Kan Win]

where can I get large images hosted ?

Hi Khutan,

Try Pbase, which I am on. Free for 10 mb after that you have to pay a small fee for 400 mb.

Why would you post original photos anyway? as Monitors are only 72 dpi.

Happy Shooting

Yours truly,

Kan Win

[glenbat]

I imagine its a great camera, I've had its smaller brother the Powershot G5 for a couple of years now and still havent used all of its features...

I use a Sony T5 for snappy shots and carrying with me, but thE G5 will be accompanying me to Thailand this time after seeing some of the pictures posted on here

[markuk]

i just brought the A640 was looking at the G7 as they are the same price, be interested to compare pics!!

[Khutan]

It looks like the spec is very similar.

One of the features that closed it for me was the video capacity, 1024x768. Sure its only mono sound, but with post-processing and adding music etc can fix that. As I was after flexability rather than total purism, the 400D lost that race.

I think the down side will be having to buy some high capacity SD cards

[Khutan]

Sadly the G7 is no longer, so I will have to save up and buy a replacement

I was on a bus in Denmark and got off in a hurry with a group of people, and I left the camera on the bus. A month later, I think its lost for ever. Good luck to whoever finds it, I hope it goes to good use.

People are saying there is going to be a G8 coming soon, is this true ?

[Nordlys]

It took Canon two years to release G7 since the predecessor model G6, when all preceding models up to G6 had only one year product lifecycle (G1 to G6). I doubt G8 is coming so soon to the market and I wouldn't be surprised even if G8 will never see the light of the day when you can buy pretty decent entry-level dSLR for the price of G7 these days (albeit with crappy kit lens).

I was also tempted to buy G7 as a sub-camera for my dSLR but decided against it for the following reasons.

1. no more F/2.8 fast lens available

2. no more RAW format recording available (JPEG only)

3. don't like the 35 - 210mm zoom range, more shift to the wide side preferable (like PowerShot SD800IS)

4. wish it came with 2/3" size sensor instead of 1/1.8" (like PowerShot Pro1)

Sorry to hear about your loss.

[hughden]

Just read a G7 review in a UK magazine and they were highly critical of the image quality and noise. Maybe another case of ramping up the mega-pixels at the expense of quality?

[Mai Krap]

Look for the Sigma DP1 that will be released this summer, Its a point and shoot with a 14 mega pixel SLR size sensor with a 28mm equivalent wide angle lens.

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[faxx]

Just read a G7 review in a UK magazine and they were highly critical of the image quality and noise. Maybe another case of ramping up the mega-pixels at the expense of quality

The image quality and noise is a problem associated with the ISO 1600 setting, only. Use 800 ASA and the noise will be on an acceptable level.

What I like about the G7 is the fact that it gives you great manual control over your settings. I bought it fresh off the shelf in October or November last year and I am pretty happy with it. The colors come our very well. Considering the price of 18k Baht it's a pretty good deal.

Edited March 20, 2007 by faxx