Canon PowerShot G9 review

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January 5, 2008

Posted by: johnkelly3

"Pricey but worth every penny"

What I like:

PSPP - Point Shoot Perfect Picture

What I don't like:

Viewing screen doesn't detach & rotate

Review:

I run a high end luxury goods company in London & when we have events or pictures to take sometimes I hire a professional photographer. My backup solution for perfect pictures is the G9.

It is built like a tank, fast as hell & can be considered your trusted companion when you are in a live must perfectly capture moment. Set on automatic & you only need to concentrate on what you want to shoot. Then, push the button and have confidence the G9 will take care of the rest to give you that perfectly recorded moment.

I just returned from a skiing/snowboarding New Years trip to Verbier Switzerland with 40 Italians, the women were so excited by the quality of the photographs & replaying them on the bright viewing screen I didn't even need to take the pictures myself. They were snapping away at everything for almost a week capturing perfect facebook shots from the trip of all of us. The G9 was surely the most superior camera in the group I was with & its physical presence only reinforces the quality of its output.

I also shot a 2min snowboarding video while I was riding which was almost 300mb, so make sure you get a high gb card if you want to shoot any video. I have the SD 4gb extreme III. I will now also get the 8GB Extreme III as I have some more snow movies I want to shoot in the coming weeks in St Moritz.

If you own the G9 it will have been one of the best purchases you've ever made.

PS My Dad is still using my passed down G5 & loving it, if he only knew about the G9...