If I were to ask you what the misfit camera that exists on the market today is, what yould you say? Me, I'd say it has to be the Canon G1X. I really can't tell you where it belongs and the only thing I can say is that Canon must have been conducting an experiment of some sort to see what the market wanted.
I can't place the camera in any category because of quite a few reasons. It has a large 1.5" sensor which is bigger than the m4/3 sensor, so I would assume that image quality must be good, provided the sensor proves useable. The body is more like a P&S camera, except it's rather big. It certainly isn't pocketable. The OVF is a joke and it's not really useable. Mine is fine as centering goes, but I've heard that some aren't even useable in that sense. I really don't know why they incorporated one really. One thing I like about it is the EC dial a la Fuji X100S and I don't have press another button to access the EC function. It's not really fast to lock focus, put I can't that it's not useable either. It's just OK.
So why this camera? See tomorrows post.
I can't place the camera in any category because of quite a few reasons. It has a large 1.5" sensor which is bigger than the m4/3 sensor, so I would assume that image quality must be good, provided the sensor proves useable. The body is more like a P&S camera, except it's rather big. It certainly isn't pocketable. The OVF is a joke and it's not really useable. Mine is fine as centering goes, but I've heard that some aren't even useable in that sense. I really don't know why they incorporated one really. One thing I like about it is the EC dial a la Fuji X100S and I don't have press another button to access the EC function. It's not really fast to lock focus, put I can't that it's not useable either. It's just OK.
So why this camera? See tomorrows post.
