CANON G5 or G6???

[macda]

Hello all,

I need some help with a decision i am about to make with regards to the canon g5 and the new g6. I can purchase a relatively new g5 from a friend for a good price, or i can pay more for the g6. Does anyone have any feedback? perhaps the owners of both cameras can help me make a choice. Im about to undertake four months of travel and i want to take good quality photos. Are the problems commonly associated with the g5 as prevalent as some reviews say? and is the g6 image quality vastly superior to the g5? Thankyou so much for helping..... :D [/b]

[Papaw]

Don't know what the going price of the G5 is, but I just bought a G6 through Digital Megastore for $618.00 plus $18.89 shiping.
Boy, I sure like the feel of it. So far just holding it and reading the manual.

[KRDV]

I would do the G6 unless the price diff is quite large ($200 or more).

[KRDV]

I would do the G6 unless the price diff is quite large ($200 or more).

[Superbaldguy]

The G5 has some shortcomings, like the infamous shadow with the wide setting for flash pics, more purple fringing, and 5 MP seems to be losing in the race, nowadays. Also, the viewfinder is blocked a bit when the lens is at the wide setting.

I was quite resolved to get the G5 if the price went down, far enough, but it seems that's not really happening, so I opted for the G6.

Both are pretty nice cameras and you can create wonderful images with either one.

[andrewaaa5]

Don't know what the going price of the G5 is, but I just bought a G6 through Digital Megastore for $618.00 plus $18.89 shiping.
Boy, I sure like the feel of it. So far just holding it and reading the manual.


READING THE MANUAL???? WHAT FOR :P

[Belmondo]

I have a G5 which I bought after realizing that selling both my G2s was a big mistake. IMHO, the G5 did not produce decidedly better images than the G2, and was something of a waste of money. I don't know if they've addressed any of the inadequacies of the G5, but hopefully they have. If all they did was to squeeze more pixels onto a sensor at the cost of image quality, it's not a significant improvement. I'll vote for the G6 just because I have faith that Canon took pains to resolve some of the image issues with the G5.

[macda]

Thanks everyone....

By the sounds of it...the g2, g3 and g5 all seem to be in the same league. Can anyone here vouch for the G5's ability or should i just forget it and go for the g6? Are the images that much better??

[Carlosthetackle]

I have a G5, and while I have had a lot of fun with it, there are some annoying things that seem to have been greatly improved in the G6 - namely Chromatic Abberation.

If I could buy now, I'd go for the G6.

[crazylilgimp]

The only thing that really bothers me about the G5 is how long it takes for the autofocus. I've heard that the G6 autofocus speed has greatly improved. If I could...I'd get the G6...but I do love my G5.

-rydel

[Papaw]

andrewaaa5,

OK, your going to force me to expose how stupid I am to photography. This is my first digital and only the 2nd camera I have ever owned. I had a Cannon AE1 that I never learned to use after wasting lots of film. When I did happen to get a good shot, by the time I saved up enough money to develop the film and got around to it--I forgot what settings I used to get the shot.
Now I am retired and want to learn more about this camera stuff and I love not having to buy film and waiting for the results and having to pay someone to get the results.
From this forum I have figured that a G6 should be a pretty good camera that I can still use auto until I get educated. Since receiving the G6 I have read about things I know nothing about------ Raw, histogram, tiff, white balance etc. I still am having problems understanding the differance of M and P mode. TV and AV seem to be two modes that either could be chosen to play with and achieve the same outcome leaving the other alone, but I know that is not true. I am thinking raw has the most promise for correcting a shot after the fact, however today I shot some shots that were blury and I can't figure out how to sharpen them through Cannon's software. I took several shots of the full moon last night and all I got was a big round white ball.
I have lots to learn and I just thought I would start by reading the manual (and thats turning out to be hard at times).
The most information I have gained however has been this forum, which I sincerely thank each and every one's input and understanding.

Jack

[Superbaldguy]

That's the beauty of the G6 or any similar higher-end camera - it offers simple operation for the novice but you can expand your talents and enhance the experience of taking photographs by learning about Tv, Av, and M modes. Even for a 20-year veteran of shooting film, the G6 offers plenty of overrides.

Sharpening is only truly effective if the image is in focus; sounds like your moon shots didn't turn out due to the fact the shutter speed was too slow. The Tv mode is exactly the same as you had with the AE-1; set the shutter speed and the camera determines the f/stop.

Feel free to email me at rosmith@ns.sympatico.ca for more pointers.

[Alnath]

The thing is my A80 offered all that and more :) The G6 has less modes!

[dfrost]

When taking a picture of the moon, remember that's it a sunny day up there. So correct exposure by the "sunny 16" rule is aperture of f16 and shutter speed at the reciprocal of the ISO rating.

To translate that into G6, etc. application (which doesn't go to f16), use Manual mode at f4 (two stops more light then f16) and 1/200 sec (two stops less light if you're at ISO 50). At that speed, motion blur is less likely.

And because digital film is pretty darn cheap, bracket up and down.

But when I did some shots with moonlight reflecting off water, none of the above applied. And I bracketed even more.

[Slamnasty]

I'd do the G6, een if it's $200 more.

[pradeep1]

My order of prefs. for this class of cameras is:

G6 > Pro 1 > G3 > G2 > G5 > G1

8)

[bosamar]

When I was searching for new digicam I got my hands on the G5 first. The price (new) was $589 at a military exchange. I almost bought it that day. I went home that night and saw that Canon replaced the G5 with the G6. I read the reviews at Steve's, DP Review, Digi Cam Resource Page, and Megapixel and decided to buy the G6. From what I can tell from the reviews I read the G6 has about 5 advantages compared to the G5. The DCRP says the advantages are:

-7.1 effective Megapixel CCD (versus 5.0 on the G5)
-Redesigned, more compact body
-Larger, 2 inch LCD display (versus 1.8" on the G5)
-New VGA movie mode
-9-point AiAF in automatic shooting modes and all-around faster autofocus
-More powerful battery

[rgravel]

The only thing that really bothers me about the G5 is how long it takes for the autofocus. I've heard that the G6 autofocus speed has greatly improved. If I could...I'd get the G6...but I do love my G5.

-rydel

Ditto 8)

Get a G6 :!: