Compact digital G11?

[ianpinion]

These decisions are never easy, iRebel, but as Chris has stated to make it a little bit less stressful you have to weigh up your priorities. If you like, list down your criteria like size, weight, image quality,price, what camera features are an absolute must etc. etc. and rate each in importance. You should then have a clearer idea of what you really need and be then able to compare each camera against this criteria to see which one ticks the most boxes. Hopefully, you will then have a clear winner.

[GeoffWessex]

I use a G10 (some of the time), but I wish I'd held on a few more months and got the G11.... the reduction in Megapixels from 14 (in the G10) to 10 (in the G11) was a surprising - but very sensible - move. Much lower pixel density - less noise.

[loweswood]

Only thing better than G11 for what it does is G12. Superb and portable. Friend of mine just got a CSC for the size but with the lens attached it lost all its advantage..

[Eyeayen]

Nikon have released the P7000 in answer to Canon's G12. The P6000 was a very good camera but Canon over shadowed it and it wasn't widely stocked in my area, I couldn't find one shop that had one in for me to try

I still think the manufacturers should address the sensor size issue, if you buy a DSLR you're obviously into photography so you should be able to have a full frame sensor. High end compact and Bridge camera's should have APS-C sensors and then anything lower than that should have a sensor between the APS-C and the currently used size (s) with small ones being reserved for camera phone. Just my opinion.

[ap4a]

The problem with putting a full frame sensor into every DSLR is cost. One of the biggest material expenses is the the silicon wafers used for the sensors, and the surface area of a 35mm sensor is so much greater than for an APS-C one that the volume of units they can build from a single wafer drops significantly, especially when taking into account the increased likelihood of encountering a flaw as chips increase in size.

[Dagwood]

Originally Posted by iRebel

..........Tomorrow I'm going to make final decision , I will try G11 and Pen. Hate decisions.

With so much good advice given it would have been nice to know the final decision as to which camere iRebel chose
Dagwood

[Eyeayen]

Originally Posted by ap4a

The problem with putting a full frame sensor into every DSLR is cost. One of the biggest material expenses is the the silicon wafers used for the sensors, and the surface area of a 35mm sensor is so much greater than for an APS-C one that the volume of units they can build from a single wafer drops significantly, especially when taking into account the increased likelihood of encountering a flaw as chips increase in size.

With the amount of time that they've been making sensors now you think the prices would have come down to allow them to do this, I appreciate camera prices have fallen but at the same time I still think they should have sorted it out so the masses can have full frame. I said before in another post years ago when there was only film you could buy exactly the same film as a pro would use and providing you had good glass you could in effect capture on the same film as them. Now though FF DSLR's are pretty expensive, yes I know the 5D and the D700 are within grasp if you earn half decent money but why shouldn't anyone who wants an SLR be able to get full frame.

I fully appreciate what you're saying about manufacturing costs and such like, I just wonder how many years we'll have to wait for it all to change and get to the stage I've previously mentioned with sensor sizes.

I'd rather manufacturers concentrated on that than some of the other things that have been brought our recently.

[ap4a]

Originally Posted by Eyeayen

why shouldn't anyone who wants an SLR be able to get full frame.

They can. It just costs more, because it costs more to make that sort of camera.