Nick Devlin has written a fantastic essay (not a typical review) on his use of The Canon Powershot G9 in Japan for The Luminous Landscape. The G7 and now G9 have appealed to me and still do but I’m waiting just a bit longer for Canon to work out some of the last bugs. For most people, however, the G9 is a fanstatic tool and for travel, just the thing.
Nick Devlin has written a fantastic essay (not a typical review) on his use of The Canon Powershot G9 in Japan for The Luminous Landscape. The G7 and now G9 have appealed to me and still do but I’m waiting just a bit longer for Canon to work out some of the last bugs. For most people, however, the G9 is a fanstatic tool and for travel, just the thing.
This piece is not prescriptive of the “right” way to travel or photograph. I travel to travel, not to produce commercial-grade photography – that’s a side benefit if it happens. I have suffered one too many trips degraded by the presence of too much heavy gear hanging, both literally and figuratively, like an albatross around my neck. The compromise is that I carry light, compact cameras, which afford me a modest, core focal-length range. No tripods. No flashes. No long teles. No laptop.
Of course, I could easily have produced bigger, badder images with my Canon 1DsMK II and a coterie of “L” glass. Could have, that is, but for the fact that my shoulders would have taken one look at that kit in the morning and marched me out the door cameraless.
The only great camera is the camera that’s there with you when the light happens.
[via Dale Allyn]
Source: http://www.richardsnotes.org/archives/2008/01/24/the-canon-powershot-g9-in-japan/
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