New G9 Review

http://www.popphoto.co​m …t-canon-powershot-g9.html

This shows the resolution of the G9 is very good and if you use RAW and the noise reduction software that comes with the camera (on your computer in Image Browser), it does very well.

It looks like, very much, that the RAW capability has added quite a bit of usability to this camera. According to this review, it does significantly better than the G7.

J.

"Canon's new top of the line pocket rocket gets some major upgrades, including the return of RAW and a new RAW converter for the total control freaks"

It amazes me why they chose to remove support for Raw in the first place!

Not a bad little camera though.

This review also seems to handle a bit of the comparison between Jpeg and RAW with the noise reduction software comparison to highest quality Jpeg. Thanks for posting. Nothing here to cause me to take a gun to my G7. I rarely shoot anything past 200 ISO and from this review there isn't much difference between RAW and Jpeg at 200 and less.

Stew

I wonder why they made that little strip of grip on the G9, I would have had the grip covering that entire area.

Looks like Canon has repented of their wrong doings...... good job.

Glad to see that the extra megapixels didn't turn out so badly as everyone feared, that they could (somehow, not sure how the technology works) be used as a noise reduction.

Something I have to keep reminding myself is - compared to any other small (P&S) cameras this thing is awesome. Sure it doesn't compare to a good SLR but - it's not supposed to. Looks to me that for what it is intended to do, it is awesome.

I've been waiting for a good in-depth review for some time now and it looks very encouraging to see that it looks like it's a little more than a G7 with Raw.

I think I'm going to order one to replace my G7.

I'm very interested in the Adaptive Noise performance as my main critism of the G7 is that I have found ISO 400 and above performance to be unacceptable and I have missed some shots by trying to hand hold at very low shutter speeds at ISO 200, even with IS.

squiress wrote in post #3942977
This review also seems to handle a bit of the comparison between Jpeg and RAW with the noise reduction software comparison to highest quality Jpeg. Thanks for posting. Nothing here to cause me to take a gun to my G7. I rarely shoot anything past 200 ISO and from this review there isn't much difference between RAW and Jpeg at 200 and less.

Stew

Not only that but Noise Ninja works just fine on JPEGS in photoshop. No need to have RAW to apply noise reduction. Out of the camera JPEGS show more noise on the G9 than the G7. I saw this first hand myself.

KarlMarsh wrote in post #3947155
Not only that but Noise Ninja works just fine on JPEGS in photoshop. No need to have RAW to apply noise reduction. Out of the camera JPEGS show more noise on the G9 than the G7. I saw this first hand myself.

The problem is that if you run Noise Ninja (or any other noise reduction S/W) on the Jpgs you are going to lose more detail since the camera has already applied NR in camera. It looks like there is no NR applied to the RAW so if you apply NR externally, you are applying it for the first time and it is, no doubt, better than the camera can do. Would be better if one could select to turn off NR in camera for JPG rendering.

It looks like those that have applied noise reduction on the G9 RAW files have much better results than the camera doing the NR in camera and rendering a bit of a mushy jpg as a result. The camera does not do NR on RAW.

J.