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>>209415 I just picked up a G9 recently. Any serious photography I still do with my 35mm but it's great for taking massive amounts of casual pictures (like going to museums and shit). I have 3 minor complaints about the G9, one is the lack of a bulb setting (15 sec max shutter, but anything longer than that I would probably be using my other cameras anyway), second is the rather sensitive auto-focus press on the shutter (barely moving/thinking hard is often enough to come off the focus mode), and last a weird button inconsistency in review mode where you have to use the arrows to navigate and the zoom control to select while the center button is function-less.
I'm very pleased with it overall, about as good as point and shoot cameras come (not in same league as DSLRs). It has all the expected manual features, and a very welcome manual focus. The macro is good, but I've have to override it's auto settings often on exposure and focus to get decent shots.
Random Note: The OM-1 remains one of my favorite cameras because it is completely manual and can shoot with no battery (as long as you can guess the exposure, the batt is only for the light meter). This is sort of welcome as you can't even buy the original battery anymore and either have to use a substitute and correct by weighting the ISO setting 2 stops (IIRC) or do some simple modifications.
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