| I use a Canon G6 for those days when I want to travel light with a camera attached to my belt, but don't want to give up certain essentials. This camera has full external manual control without having to dig through a menu, RAW mode, a swiveling LCD screen as well as a backlit top-mounted LCD screen, is large enough to supply great ergonomics, has over 7 megapixels, and costs about $200 on Ebay in mint condition. The following G7 model deletes the RAW mode, and subsequent G models lost the swiveling LCD screen, not to mention the fact that they will cost you much more than this model with no real gain in picture quality. In fact in some ways the picture quality on subsequent models deteriorates, with additional noise at higher ISO settings as they crammed too many pixels onto too small a sensor. This one is a real sleeper. |