New G9

Here is one of the first images from my new G9.

100% crop included first.

Not a masterpiece, but this is my "duck" image shot with my new camera
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That's a pretty big duck!

Looks reasonable quality too, but the feather detail seems to blend in a bit

Oh Boy! I feel thousands of photos being taken as I type!! WTG Chris....

Quack

For what it is, I'm very impressed with the results. I think I'll be enjoying this little baby for quite some time.

I picked it up for my upcoming trip to Vietnam. Since the primary purpose of the trip is a vacation with my wife, she would rather I don't lug a backpack with my 40d everywhere we go. This was the compromise.

Av: f/4.8
Tv: 2" on tripod
ISO: 80
Focal Length (Eqv.): 210mm

The amount of noise showing in the 100% full detail crop is not bad but is higher than I would expect for an ISO 80 setting. What do you think?

Robert_Lay wrote in post #6108280
The amount of noise showing in the 100% full detail crop is not bad but is higher than I would expect for an ISO 80 setting. What do you think?

I think that due to the 2" exposure, the internal noise reduction kicked in and may have been a little aggressive. During my research I've read over and over that the G9 does not perform well under low-light conditions (show me a P&S that does) so overall I was pretty happy with this result.

I have some quick landscape tests from today. Let me get those up.

How's the mouth?

Flo wrote in post #6108389
How's the mouth?

Painful, thank you for asking

Here's another set that were taken under bright lighting conditions. The noise doesn't seem to be an issue here at all.

100% crop:

So this means that you will need to do alot of editing Chris? Or is this just for the long shots?

Flo wrote in post #6108538
So this means that you will need to do alot of editing Chris? Or is this just for the long shots?

I do a lot of editing on images I take with the 40d

WB is easy with the WhiBal so I don't worry about doing custom WB's. I also use a custom colours setting (same as picture style) where I turn the sharpness, contrast, and colour saturation right down. I find that the P&S cameras are too aggressive with these settings, and really limit the post processing I can do myself. Turning down the contrast allows me to expose a wider dynamic range than I could if I left it on normal. I can adjust the contrast myself. Turning off the sharpening allows me to do post processing on the image without accentuating the halo's the in-camera sharpening adds. Finally, the colour saturation is another area that I like to have control over the final print.

The normal settings are great if you want to just hook the camera up to a printer and print your images, but I never do that. I really like to be involved with every stage of the process. One day I'll get a good printer as well so I can have full control over that end.

One last 100% crop that includes the sky, mountain edge, and leaves against sky for CA evaluation. I'm impressed.

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Looks great.....what made you decide on the G9? Cost.?ease of using? You look cool holding it?
I miss my old Canon A80.it took some great shots.....

Flo wrote in post #6108841
Looks great.....what made you decide on the G9? Cost.?ease of using? You look cool holding it?
I miss my old Canon A80.it took some great shots.....

I was looking for a good quality compact that had a lot of the features in the slr (especially full manual controls). It came down to the G9 and A650, but I went for the build quality on the G9 and I don't like the AA batteries used in the A series.

Yep, I agree about the batteries.a PITA...

LeuceDeuce wrote in post #6108379
I think that due to the 2" exposure, the internal noise reduction kicked in and may have been a little aggressive. During my research I've read over and over that the G9 does not perform well under low-light conditions (show me a P&S that does) so overall I was pretty happy with this result.

I have some quick landscape tests from today. Let me get those up.

"due to the 2" exposure, the internal noise reduction kicked in and may have been a little aggressive"

You may have misunderstood the manual in this regard (See page 85) -
The camera automatically applies noise reduction processing when you shoot at a high ISO speed.

Using a long (2" exposure) may be the culprit but not because of noise reduction processing. When set at ISO 80, the camera would not employ noise reduction processing.

Robert_Lay wrote in post #6110159
"due to the 2" exposure, the internal noise reduction kicked in and may have been a little aggressive"

You may have misunderstood the manual in this regard (See page 85) -
The camera automatically applies noise reduction processing when you shoot at a high ISO speed.

Using a long (2" exposure) may be the culprit but not because of noise reduction processing. When set at ISO 80, the camera would not employ noise reduction processing.

From page 95:

"... This camera, however, applies special processing to images shot at shutter speeds slower than 1.3 seconds to eliminate the noise, ..."

It actually does apply noise reduction at speeds slower than 1.3 seconds.

Edit: I knew it did when I took the shot as well since the LCD stayed black while it took the 2nd shot for noise. This still may not be the reason, and the 2" shutter speed would definately increase the noise.