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Anonymous
I'm going to semi-dissent and say that the Panasonic is an equally good choice to the G9, just for different things.
I've got both an earlier Panasonic superzoom and an earlier Canon G. Both are great. The Panasonic lens is definitely better- I didn't believe it was actually designed by someone at Leica until I saw it- but the G has a hotshoe. The Panasonic handles better; the G has faster RAW shot to time. (This could be because the G I have has three less megapixels than the Panasonic, or it could be something genuine.) Manual focusing is easier on the Panasonic; one has to use the screen in the back to do it on the G because it doesn't have an EVF.
I suggest that the OP do what we suggest for people to do when they're buying SLRs: just go and hold the camera in his hands, and see which one works the best. Unless, of course, he's big on using some feature that one of them does or doesn't have: a huge zoom range or an external flash or whatever.
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