Canon PowerShot G9 Digital Camera

Pros: Durable construction, great feature set, good controls, sharp lens across the zoom range.
Cons: Slightly above average noise at all ISO settings, somewhat expensive.

Introduction My Canon A620 digital camera has been a faithful backup camera for over a year now. It does pretty much everything I ask of it and it's made me a big fan of Canon's A-series cameras. The next step up from this series of camera is ...

Pros: Many features & capabilities; novice to professional; handsome & solidly built; good value.
Cons: No swivel LCD; battery life could be better; inconvenient tripod mount & interface door locations.

I am not a professional photographer but I have owned several digital cameras, including the Canon G2, G4 and G6. My review here of the latest G9 is based on personal use and a comparison to previous G series cameras. My comments will be general in ...

Pros: Sturdy, Quality, Great Panoramic Shots, Crisp Colors, Feature Packed
Cons: Bulky, Heavy, Takes time to learn how to use

I have been a Canon PowerShot enthusiast for years now. Started from S100, went through S200, S320, S400, SD200, SD550, and my favorite SD700 which I left in India during one of my trips. Anyways, after SD700 I started looking at G-series and ...

Pros: Full metal casing. Full set of manual controls. RAW. Great for professionals and consumers alike.
Cons: Steep initial cost. May make you want to eventually upgrade to a real SLR camera!

Photography is one of my few serious hobbies. Late last year, I bought myself the newest Semi-Professional SLR Canon had to offer -- the EOS 40D. The 40D has traveled almost everywhere with me around the city since then, but it felt like a couple things ...

Pros: 12MP, built in "photo lab" 3" lcd, long lasting battery
Cons: a little heavy, lcd could have been adjustable

the powershot g9 is the new flagship of canon's midrange digital cameras and it does deliver! First I must add that for those of you who think this camera looks familar, yes... it is based on the powershot g7 design and is in fact an update to the g7. ...

Pros: Control for the Photography enthusiast Great build quality Familiar Settings for Canon prolevel sDSLR users
Cons: It might be a little large if you need a shirt pocket camera

I just received this camera last week and already it is a good friend. This camera will especially appeal to photographers who are already using prosumer or pro level Canon D-SLR users or are just interested in the highest level of creative control from ...

Pros: Great camera, fully adjustable to suit any picture taking situation.
Cons: Have read on forums that dust can collect on the inner lens rendering it useless

I have had my canon G9 for approx three wks now. Although I am still learning the basics of the camera, it takes awesome pictures. The camera has more than ample setting for you to take pictures in all sort of environments, to include taking pictures in ...

Pros: Great image quality Supports Raw and Manual Control
Cons: Bulky, barely fits in pocket ISO performance isn't so great past 800.

Let me start off by saying that this is just about the best point and shoot camera available right now. This is also the camera that professional photographers use as their pocket, go everywhere camera. The main reason why this camera is so popular with ...

Pros: Easy picture review.
Memory cards cheap. 
Battery is rechargeable, and lasts.
Cons: This camera does not take great pictures.  They are average at best. 

I purchased the Canon G9 2.5 months ago, I have taken pictures on multiple settings and it is an inferior product that takes average pictures.  I had a Canon PowerShot S70 for about 5 years until I broke it.  It would have cost $145 to fix so i ...

Pros: Good size, Shoot in RAW, Canon quality, Canon Accesories
Cons: A little awkward in the pocket. No ergonomic grip. Mild Fringing

The best advanced point & shoot on the market. 12.1 mp Designed for the photographer who wants more from their shots than a point and shoot can give and doesn't want to carry around a DSLR.
A big feature is the ability to shoot in RAW mode. If you're not sure what RAW mode is, you might want to look at some other advanced point and shoots that have similar feature but not the RAW feature.

Size is small enough to fit in a large pocket.
Takes movies
Face Detection
6x zoom
Hot-shoe support for flash
25 shooting modes

Pros: • Durable
• Image Quality
• Macro
• Battery Life
Cons: • Night Shooting
• Manual Exposure Time
• Price (at the time) ?

I have to admit, when I purchased this camera I was a little nervous. There was a lot of hype surrounding it. The people at Best Buy, my friends, reviews. I am not afraid to say that it lives up to it. I have had about 4 different point and shoot digital cameras before this and was not pleased with any of them. I don't remember which models I had, I think one was a Fuji S700 (horrible chromatic abberation) and three other, lower model, Canons. Non of them pleased me like the Canon G9 has. First and foremost, it is a tough camera. Second, it takes EXCELLENT SHOTS. There are some very slight drawbacks that others have mentioned, noisy high iso's, night time performance wasn't what I would expect it to be, which is ok though.. it wasn't horrible. Third, it takes very good macro shots. This was the primary use of the camera for me. It's manual settings were more than enough for me and I can imagine for anyone else in the "Pre-SLR" category.