Quiet around this forum these days...

...has everyone wandered off and bought DSLR's?

Seems so doesn't it. I see more and more posting on the EOS dSLR forum than here.

Well, I *post* on the DSLR forum.

Cheaper than actually *buying* a DSLR

No kidding, but maybe the Pro1/G6 people just aren't as enthusiastic as the G2&G3 crowd....

Best regards,
Andy

G-Series Forum

I hope that the posting continues for the G-series - I didn't find this site that long ago - and I wish that I would have sooner. One of the better and more friendly forums on the net related to photography.

Besides - I think that there is much still to learn about the proper use of my G5 and I need everyone's help with that endevour. I would also assume that the G6 is selling like hotcakes - we should have many potential new posters each and every day.

Funny enough, just earlier today I absolutely reached my limit with forums, mainly because they tend to be pretty repetitive, and partly because they are particularly susceptible to misinformation and unsubstantiated opinion. Mistakes will happen (and I should know!) but good advice can only be the fruit of experience.



But, on the other side of the coin, as bauerman has quite rightly pointed out, forums like Photography On the Net can be useful if you find a few on a thread who actually have a good number of years behind them and can back up their wise words with interesting, well-taken images.

So maybe most of the G-series owners are out there taking great images!

Good luck with your photography!



Sam North

Andythaler wrote:
Well, I *post* on the DSLR forum.

Cheaper than actually *buying* a DSLR

No kidding, but maybe the Pro1/G6 people just aren't as enthusiastic as the G2&G3 crowd....

Best regards,
Andy

I am in the same boat as you. Too poor.

And yes, seems like the Pro1/G6 crowd is not as rabid as the G1-G3 crowds tended to be. I guess at those times, the G series were top of the game, whereas the Pro1/G6 have been bested by other alternatives.

Ho hum.

Thats exactly it. We dont have time to bench race on the net about the latest gear and why we just sold our 300D to buy a 10D and only months down the line buy a 20D because we're using our creativity in the field :P

Powershots rule the world!!!!!

Well hey maybe this very active crowd can help me out.

I have an Elan and 420 per my sig.
I'm going to buy either a Drebel body or G6 after the holidays durng the Jan-Feb sales lull.

In anycase after lugging the SLR around all summer I find using the wifes point and click both refreshing and restrictive.

So the G6 with it's size and features is tempting me.

But to my point -- I've asked this before but didn't get and answer
Does the G6 use the AF assist on the Eos speedlights like the 420 and 550?

I love how much better my 420EX makes my Elan but I've heard some bad things about the Drebel and the 420 and I'm leary of getting the G6 simply for the hot shoe especially if it doesn't work that great with the 420.

Well first up, as a G3 owner with a 420EX flash, the AF assist light does not work on the flash, the technicalreason is due to the fact that the light is red and the camera uses the green pixels to focus with (there are twice as many green pixels to blue or red). I am fairly certain this is the case with the G6 as well.

Secondly, I bought a G3 a year ago, and my EOS30 (Elan 7) never had a roll of film run through it since. Since the G6 takes even better images, this may be even more the case. I supose that depends on what you are shooting.

In the end I misses the conrtol and speed of the SLR, so I sold the ESO30, and bought a 20D, now I have the best of both worlds 8)

I will keep using the G3 mainly for the reasons you have discovered with your wifes P&S. The G series does have most of the SLR type features and controls, just not as quick, and with a fixed lens.

No DSLR for me.
I'm with the poor group.
The G3 will be with me for a long time, Ive gotten great photo's with it.
So , Im still here too

Pamela

off topic, but for those who are bored....?

http://mono65.com/b/
http://mono65.com/a/
http://mono65.com/1/
http://mono65.com/2/
http://mono65.com/3/
http://mono65.com/4/
http://mono65.com/fi/
http://mono65.com/uk/

a bit off topic, but if anyone is bored and wants to see a few G3 pics that I have taken, try here (warning, quite a bit of photoshop going on here for those who are purists!!!)

they are mostly taken in Estonia, apart from fi (finland) and uk (UK!)

comments welcome.
andrew

p.s. I think this forum is great. quite new to it myself, and wiish I had more time to read more of the historic posts....

I guess I'm the odd one out then, as I bought my G-5 AFTER I had already purchased my 10D for some of the same reasons MrChad brought up, but also, I like having a NON interchangeable lens camera when I go four wheeling here in the dusty desert.
My G-5 is staying for a long time.
As a side benefit, the 550EX is equally at home on it.
-Bruce

Well the other day, right after the day I bought a brand new 20D I was out with guess what? My trusty G3, why, one word: Portability 8)

Since the cost for a DSLR keeps getting lower & lower, more & more people will be buying them, I guess. Perhaps they think that a "real" camera will make them a "real" photographer.

While I have a DSLR myself, I'll never give up the smaller compact digicam - you can't beat it for travel! (And I refuse to call them "point and shoot" cameras).

Actually, all cameras today are point-and-shoot cameras (having automatic modes available).

But I prefer the term 'digital rangefinder style fixed lens camera' (though it is quite awkward, actually )

Best regards,
Andy