Canon G9???

(romes) · (romes) **Join Date: Sep 2006** 07-23-2008, 2:32 PM

anyone have any experience with this thing? friend of mine picked one up on the recomendation of a friend of his...i'm just tryna find out some more info.

(bakes5) · (bakes5) **Join Date: Aug 2006** 07-23-2008, 6:34 PM

It's OK. I got one with my United sky miles. It takes decent pics for a point and shoot but once you are spoiled by a decent DSLR it is hard to be happy with it.

Now it sits in my desk and I use it take pictures of interesting cases.

(peter_c) · (peter_c) **Join Date: Sep 2001** 07-23-2008, 7:32 PM

It is one of the best point and shoot cameras out there. Highly regarded for underwater photography. It can shoot RAW so that is a major plus.

(joshturner) · (joshturner) **Join Date: Jun 2007** 07-31-2008, 9:47 PM

its rad if you want to do off camera lighting stuff cuz it can sync up to 1/2000 of a second. i think thats how high it goes. all i know is that it syncs higher than the 1/320 or 1/250 that most SLR's will do. other than that i think a DSLR would be better

(wakesurf12) · (wakesurf12) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 08-01-2008, 7:53 AM

I picked one up and have been pretty damn happy with it. Though, it cannot compare to my DSLR. Which, if you are torn between the two I would get a DSLR. BUT! If you are looking for a decent point and shoot camera then I wouldn't look any further. If you are looking to take action wakeboard photos then I definitely wouldn't get it thought because it is pretty slow. But it has become my little travel/random photo op camera. Definitely wouldn't have gotten a few shots if I didn't have it around.

Here are a couple examples taken with it.

(Message edited by wakesurf12 on August 01, 2008)

(wakesurf12) · (wakesurf12) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 08-01-2008, 7:58 AM

Here are the photos. Accidentally uploaded the previews. haha!

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(romes) · (romes) **Join Date: Sep 2006** 08-01-2008, 11:35 AM

thanks ryan. i'm not going to get it instead of a dslr but rather in addition to.

nice shots