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Given the success of Canon's highly acclaimed G Series, it's no surprise that ambitious photographers have been eagerly anticipating the next model in it is evolution. The wait has remunerated off handsomely with the introduction of the PowerShot G9. In effigy quality and functionality, the G9 stands above the contest with 12.1 megapixels of resolution, 6x optical zoom with Optical Image Stabilizer, and RAW mode for the uttermost in originative control. Sophisticated design and high-quality construction supplement the engineering science and make the G9 a camera to be reckoned with.

Big Impact in a Compact Package
The PowerShot powerhouse: A class-leading 12.1-megapixel digital camera with distinguishable Canon DIGIC III Image Processor, 6x optical zoom, and Optical Image Stabilizer.

12.1-megapixel solution gives you a great deal of rich, deep detail to work with. Blow up images to poster size, or enlarge and crop any section without fear of pixilation.

With DIGIC III, your images brag superior quality, the camera operates at top efficacy and battery life is enhanced. What's more, DIGIC III enables Canon's Face Detection Technology and red-eye correction to give you better, more true-to-life humans shots. Simply press the Shutter Button halfway down, and the camera mechanically pinpoints the faces in the scene and chooses the idealisti focus point. The camera controls exposure settings and flash to keep each face looking bright and natural. Red eyes may be corrected for the duration of playback.

iSAPS Technology is an altogether primary scene-recognition technology devised for digital cameras by Canon. Using an internal database of thousands of dissimilar photos, iSAPS works with the fast DIGIC III Image Processor to improve focus speed and accuracy, as well as exposure and white balance.

The camera is equipped with a long 6x optical zoom. Canon's own Optical Image Stabilizer Technology keeps images steady and blur-free all through the zoom range--even in low light--by detecting motion and generating a corrective signal. Because it is an optical system, more corrective motion is permitted and there is no degradation of effigy quality.

Creative Power in Your Control
Full range of shooting and recording modes including JPEG + RAW for the uttermost in originative control.

The PowerShot G9's RAW mode lets you shoot images without JPEG compression. It gives you clearer images and finish originative control in editing. RAW images are transposed directly to the computer where they may then be edited using effigy adjustment software or a processing application to adjust your images as you please. The camera may likewise be set to grant the simultaneous recording of both RAW and JPEG images while shooting.

25 Shooting Modes, Including 9 Special Scene Modes

Shooting Modes
Advanced presets for the best possible photos underneath sure conditions.

Auto
The camera chooses all the settings so you may concentrate on your subject.

P Program
Access innovative exposure compensation features while shooting largely automatically.

Av Aperture-priority
You define the aperture to either isolate your subject or have clarity allround the entire picture, and the camera will choose the sameness shutter speed.

Tv Shutter-priority
You select the shutter speed to stop or blur action, and the camera finds the suitable aperture. With slow exposure times, Canon's noise reduction scheme activates to ascertain low effigy noise.

Manual
The uttermost in originative control, you set both aperture and shutter speed manually.

C Custom
Define and store your own settings to achieve the effects you prefer.

Stitch Assist
Build awe-inspiring panoramas by neatly aligning sequential images.

Movie
Shoot in High Resolution (1024 x 768 at 15 fps), VGA (640 x 480 at 30 fps/30 fps LP), QVGA (320 x 240 at 30 fps) for up to 1 hour or 4GB, QQVGA (160 x 120 at 15 fps) for up to 3 minutes or Time Lapse (640 x 480 at 1 second/2 second intervals) for up to 2 hours.

Special Scene Modes

Portrait
The camera sets a huge aperture, focusing the subject and artistically blurring the background to make your subject "pop."

Landscape
For front to back sharpness, the camera sets a little aperture.

Night Scene
For impressive sunset or nightlife shots, the camera decently discloses the background and uses slow-sync flash for the subject.

Sports
Ensure highly exact autofocusing when shooting fast-moving subjects.

Foliage
Capture brilliant shots of autumn foliage, greenery and blossoms.

Snow
Shoot clear snow scenes without darkened subjects or an unnatural bluish tint.

Beach
Get clear shots of persons at a sunny beach without darkened faces.

Fireworks
Grab brilliant images of skyrocketing fireworks.

Aquarium
Achieve proper flash-free exposure and natural hues at indoor aquariums.

Underwater
Capture underwater images with scaled down backscatter effect. (Note: Optional waterproof case WP-DC21 required for shooting any underwater images. Waterproof case not included--must be purchased separately.)

ISO 3200
Expands the user's capacity to shoot in dark settings without using the flash.

Indoor
Reduce blur and improve color accuracy when shooting handheld indoors.

Kids and Pets
Reduced focusing time freezes fast-moving subjects, so you won't miss those special shots.

Night Snapshot
Get natural-looking pictures with more magnificent backgrounds and subjects lit by flash.

Color Accent
Choose to retain a single color in your effigy while other colors turn monochrome.

Color Swap
Select a color and replace it with a color you specify for special effects.

A View That's a Pure Pleasure
Optical viewfinder plus big high-quality 3.0-inch PureColor LCD II screen for bright, exact color with dandier looking at from a wider angle and with an anti-glare, anti-scratch coating.

The PowerShot G9 gives you an extra-large 3.0-inch LCD screen for splendid control when framing your shots. But size is only portion of the story. Canon's PureColor LCD II offers more spectacular color, resolution, and contrast even at an angle (compared to PureColor LCD). The screen is highly lasting and easy to see in any light with a scratch-resistant, anti-reflective coating. It is a perfective feature for gathering friends and family around to see your images.

3.0-Inch LCD Screen
Canon technology maximizes quality and performance.

Genuine Canon Face Detection Technology sets the focus, exposure, and flash automatically, leaving you free to compose a group, capture an unguarded moment, or coax the perfective smile. Plus the new Face Selector Button lets you select the important face.

DIGIC III features Face Detection technologies, giving the you best possible results in any shooting situation. Face Detection AF/AE sets the focus point and exposure for the faces of your subjects. Face Detection FE adjusts the flash to correctly illumine your subject to provide the best remainder amongst your subject and the overall scene, eliminating the mutual difficulties of over- and underexposed faces.

And new Face Selector AF enables you to lock on and follow a specific face. The chosen subject is tracked wherever the face moves in the frame.

The PowerShot G9 features ISO 1600 and High ISO Auto settings that reduce the effects of camera shake and sharpen subjects in low-light situations, giving you more outstanding shooting flexibility.

Red-eye correction detects and corrects red-eye for the duration of playback. In strange cases where red-eye is not mechanically detected, it may effortlessly be corrected manually for the duration of playback mode.

The Creative Freedom You've Wanted
Compatible with a wide range of accessaries including EOS Speedlites, Canon supplementary lenses, and a waterproof case.

The PowerShot G9 is compatible with some shooting accessories, not only wide and teleconverter lenses, a waterproof case, and High-Power Flash designed for all of the PowerShot models, but also Speedlite EX series that is compatible with all EOS series SLR cameras. (Shooting accessaries are not included; they will have to be purchased separately.) Attach a Speedlite 580EX II to the hot shoe, then you may set and control the flash on the "Flash Control" menu in the camera. With the 580EX II, the G9 is capable to have extra functions such as autoflash metering, FE lock, and Flash exposure compensation. Canon's Speedlite Transmitter ST-E2 enables you to have multiple slave flashes and wireless control. A waterproof case is likewise available for your underwater shooting.

The Complete Print Solution
Print/Share Button for easy direct printing and downloading, plus ID Photo Print and Movie Print with select PIXMA Photo Printers, CP, and SELPHY Compact Photo Printers.

The PowerShot G9's Print/Share button makes direct printing having little impact than ever. Simply connect the G9 to a Canon CP, SELPHY, or PIXMA Photo Printer or any PictBridge compatible photo printer, press the lighted Print/Share button, and print! Also use the Print/Share button to transfer images to a computer (Windows and Macintosh).

Print your own ID photos in 28 dissimilar sizes or use the Movie Print function to output multiple stills from a recorded movie on a single sheet with a Canon SELPHY Compact Photo Printer.

What's in the box:
Canon PowerShot G9 digital camera, lithium battery pack NB-2LH, battery charger CB-2LW, MMC Plus card MMC-32MH, neck strap NS-DC6, Digital Camera Solution CD-ROM, USB interface cable IFC-400PCU, AV cable AVC-DC300

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297 of 304 people found the following review helpful.
Perfect SLR alternative
By Amazholic
I've owned the G7 for with regards to 1 month now and I've actually learned to be grateful for all it is modern features - but not long ago I received my G9 and I will be returning the G7. What I like in regards to the G9 over the G7:

1. Bigger screen (3.0" vs 2.5") - with no evident decrease in battery life.
2. Picture quality is better. I have done galore parallel tests using the precise settings on both cameras (with the exception of the 12 vs 10 MP of course) and the results have been without doubt or question more favorable towards the G9 in terms of light metering and sharpness. The G9 has a new metering scheme as well as a more modern focusing system too.
3. RAW option is great. Even though most pics will be taken using JPEG (to conserve memory space), you know it when you've got a great landscape with just the perfective lighting conditions that you know may result in a printable pic, in which case you will want to have a raw copy for processing it to the most eminent potential.
4. Timelapse photo functionality is a very nice to have option which the g7 lacks
5. The physical handling of the camera is better, the front has more grip.
6. Some other design aesthetics have also gone into the g9 which I prefer.
7. Noise levels are precisely the same as in the G7. I tested both up to 400 ISO (I would not use anything higher that that) galore times and the speculations found on the internet forums that the higher number of pixels would result in more noise is plainly defective - at least in my capacity to see it in my tests.

* the only thing I dislike in the g9 over the g7 is that new usb connection door mechanism. It feels like it may one day break even with proper use. The "slide out" door (like the battery door) mechanism was so much better in terms of use and possible durability.

If I were a G7 proprietor (and you could not return it because you've had it longer than 30 days) I would not upgrade as the g7 is a superb camera - but if you were looking to buy a new camera the g9 is a better choice over the g7. The g9 is the perfective camera substitute to a bulky SLR - without the loss of total photographic control or quality. Highly recommended.

100 of 104 people found the following review helpful.
Incredible camera; very worthy upgrade from the G7
By R. Kaufmann
If you're a photographer who cares when it comes to effigy quality, and can't always lug around a DSLR, buy this camera. You will have no regrets.

I've had it is predecessor, the G7, for with regards to a year. It has been my normal always-in-the-bag camera. The G7 was fixed at ISO 400; the G9 isn't. My normal workflow with the G9 is to use CS3 to import RAW images (fixing chromatic abberation on the way into CS3 in 16-bit mode), and then to use Noise Ninja to clean up effigy noise. With this workflow, ISO 400 and ISO 800 are wholly usable. (You may likewise play with galore other settings in Adobe Camera Raw, like Recovery.)

And for everyone: you in truth ought to never, ever use a built-in strobe on a camera. The G9 (like the G7) has a hot shoe. Use it!

Canon fixed a bunch of the G7's troubles in the G9, the most glaring of which is the G9 now has a battery meter! (I can't tell you how much that lapse bugged me.) The new LCD monitor is much, much larger -- and gorgeous. And best of all, the camera body is the precise same size and shape, and fits in my underwater housing. (Update: not all the buttons work. The most glaring problem is perchance the zoom can't be changed, and that you can't modify to macro mode underwater. I'll in all probability get the new housing, but the existent one is functional.)

Nits: the new cover for the USB connector is a downgrade, but one that I may put up with. The lens is unchanged, and has a reasonable bit of barrel distortion at it is widest angle. You may clean up the barrel distortion somewhat in CS3, but straight horizontal lines become more or less wavy. I'm being hyper-picky here, but please know that you're not replacing a DSLR with a prime wide angle lens. You're just buying a little camera that you may take anywhere.

Buy it. Shoot lots of pictures with it. Be happy!

483 of 527 people found the following review helpful.
Review equated to G7
By RonAnnArbor
I had the prospect to get my hands on the G9 a week ago and have employed it completely for the past week.

Based on my personal observations (And I loved the G7):

I see practically no divergences in Image Quality at all. I thought the G7 was superb, and I find the G9 to be superb.

The 12 MP is practically indifferent from the 10 MP on the G7. Sure it gives you more or less more pixel to play with for cropping and printing, but negligibly so.

The design is nearly the same -- the screen is a bit larger, but for all practical purposes it looks and feels the same. I don't see any divergence in "brightness" on the screen -- it looked great on the G7 and it looks great on the G9.

THere is a slight contour modify on the front with a scarcely noticable front grip molding -- possibly 1/16 inch more than the original. I candidly can't feel a divergence though some users have.

It does have RAW - a feature I don't need nor do I plan to use. But it is nice that it is there for those who want it.

The ISO and noise appears to be the same -- the G9 excels at night neon shots - just like the G7. I see no divergence in noise amid the two cameras.

The shutter lag is precisely the same as the G7 - I don't see any divergence like a good deal of reviewers have mentioned... it seems precisely the same.

Some say that the optical view finder works better - that it is clearer with less parallax. I have never applied an optical view finder on a point-and-shoot in my life, so I can't compare this feature. I will add that here, though, since others have found it a utile improvement.

I likewise don't see any divergence in battery life -- perhaps it is more problematic if you use RAW, but I've gotten the same 450 plus shots out of the battery, just like the G9.

The design of the lens and the connections are the same, so I suppose those of us who carry it around in our pockets are going to have the same dust troubles we had with the G7.

Finally in matchings -- the camera feels the same and weighs the same. It responds the same when you commence it up, and it makes just as much noise as the original. The trademark Canon grinding lens noise is intact.

in differences: that old 2GB card that applied to get 800 shots at 10 MP now gets 600 shots at 12 MP.

The autofocus seems slower on the G9.

Macro shots do not focus as speedily or as well on the G9. There are a great deal of shots that I routinely was capable to quickly use macro for on the G7, that now require rather a bit of futzing to get sharp and focalized in the G9. I suppose that is one of the changes because of the more prominent sensor, but I don't know. I genuinely thought there might be something wrong with the camera, but looking at another G9 at a dissimilar camera shop (so it wasn't the lot number) I was capable to reproduce the same difficultness focusing with Macro as on my personal G9, so it's apparently a camera thing.

The long and the short of it -- I don't think it is worth the Upgrade if you have a G7 unless you actually actually want the RAW. For all other practical purposes, it's the same on a day-to-day usage level.

If you are new to the Canon Powershot G line, then skip the G7 and buy the G9 -- it is like "G7 SuperCharged" -- while in standard the two are identical. THe G9 is in truth less highpriced than the G7 as well.

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