Thank you for the comprehensive review and the many RAW photos that were made available. Based on such RAW photos, I came to the conclusion not to purchase the G11. If you properly process the E-P1 RAWs and compare them with the G11 RAWs it becomes very clear that the Canon is just another compact camera. There is so much detail in the E-P1 RAWs (if properly processed and sharpened) that it simply blows you away. By contrast, the G11 always looks mushy or oversharpened (regardless of how it sharpen or process the RAWs)..

Regarding manual focus, there is a good thing and a bad thing that were missing from the user report, especially for photojournalism and street photography (I do the latter). The good thing is that because of the small sensor, the DOF is quite large and with the lens at it's wide angle, even on f/2.8 you get focus from about 1m to infinity. Using MF also eliminates the focus lag. The bad thing is that MF is canceled if the LCD panel is turned off (manually or by the power-saving mode) or if you flip it closed to it's original position. This is an annoyance that plagues other Canon cameras and it's annoying that a fundamental parameter of photography is overridden by the position or status of an LCD display. It is not even possible to disable this behaviour and I'm surprised a camera touted for photojournalism has this 'feature'.

I guess Canon's thinking was that without an LCD you cannot focus manually, not considering that you can focus *before* turning the LCD off. So there is usefulness for manual focus, but it's quite crippled. Razvan .

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Question about g11 shutter lag. You neglected to mention the usefulness, or shutter lag, when using quick shot mode.. This might make a world of difference. Also, in all your reviews, you tell how much the shutter lag is increased by turning on the flash, but you do not tell us if it is first half press lag, or final half press lag. The former is much less of a problem than the later! Which is it, in this case? And in general? Thanks for the great reviews, and wonderful details you tease out!! Thanks, really thanks.

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Thank you for the G11 review and lab samples. I have bought one and all is going well. Do you have any 10% to 90% rise or MTF50 statistics as a result of your Imatest-ing. I am curious about how much less absolute resolution you noted compared to the G10. Cheers.

In fact, the following statement regarding the Canon G11's video functionality is wrong and may mislead someone to buy the camera in part based on this incorrect information: "at least the Canon G11 can focus while recording, which is something that most digital SLRs can't do." The Canon G11's video focusing is FIXED at the time the shutter button is pressed to start video recording. There is no continuous focusing as the video is recorded. Arguable worse than the limited video resolution of 640x480, the lack of adaptive focusing while recording video is a design bound to produce frequent out-of-focus videos..

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Hello .

I've purchased this camera and I want to buy a memory card.

Can anyone tell me what is the card speed recommended? .

Thanks, An.

The G11 is no speed demon when it comes to capturing stills, but Canon recommends Speed Class 4 (26x) or faster cards for capturing movies. You may also benefit from faster cards when downloading images and movies to your computer..

Thanks for the fine review of the G11. Some comments, corrections and additions. Additions: The review fails to mention the special noise reduction feature that kicks in automatically for all exposures longer than 1.3 seconds (buried in a footnote on the manual page for Tv and present in all G-series cameras at least as far back as the G3). It uses a second (partial?) exposure and a subtraction of the two in order to eliminate noise. As it only extends the set shutter time by about 50% (estimate), apparently, it is not a second complete exposure but, as one is already on a fixed-mount/tripod, that extra time is usually not of consequence. It produces excellent noise reduction in low-light night scenes (not surprisingly, keeping ISOs low and lengthening exposure time as long as necessary, works best).

Correction: I'd disagree with the statement that "remote capture" was a little used or dead feature. It's loss is considerable. That feature allowed complete remote control and all kinds of novel uses - and ever more so with ever-smaller net-books and USB-equipped hand-held digital devices that can be used as mobile controllers and displays. Good for amateurs, it was great for professionals in all fields doing time-lapse photography (requiring only restraint on image file-sizes and collation of those files into moving time-contractions etc). As all camera functions were controllable remotely, the sky was the limit for the programmatically inclined - with a minimum of hacking and a cheap remotely controlled Az/El and weatherproof box, old G-series cameras (read, now cheap) make great high-res, remotely-controlled, programmable security cameras or, in my research, relatively cheap tools for automated image capture and analysis.

All in all, IMO, I think the G series lost it's way in not really improving much over time and chasing the feature-happy snapshot-shooter market at the lowest price point (where all the competition is) instead of building on it's initial lead of satisfying the serious amateur..

I have a Canon G7 , is it worth up grading to a G11I do like the G7 Help me please Roy.

I'm just getting to know my new G11 (just moved up from the Powershot A410) and I'm really liking the results I'm getting, but I've encountered one caution icon I can't find in the manual or in the Magic Lantern guide I bought. It's a yellow AF frame with a yellow exclamation point. I'm pretty sure it just means there's not enough light to shoot by and I need to change my settings, but if it means more than this or something different altogether I'd sure appreciate knowing. Also, if this is in the manual and I just missed it, does anyone know what page it's on? Thanks..