Canon G7 Experience??

Has anybody had any experience with taking underwater photos with the Canon G7? Any positive and negatives about it?

My insurance company has agreed to replace my Powershot S60 with the G7 as the S80 is no longer being manufactured and I want to make sure before I accept that I'm doing the right thing.

All responses greatfully received.

Thanks

From what I've read at www.dpreview.com , who are normally very favorable to Canon, they said it was a "downgrade" from the G6. Granted after reading about the Canon G6 that looked like a fantastic point and shoot. With that said, it probably does everything your S80 did and more so its a fair trade. The big issue might be a housing. Haven't seen one yet.

Has anybody had any experience with taking underwater photos with the Canon G7? Any positive and negatives about it?

 

My insurance company has agreed to replace my Powershot S60 with the G7 as the S80 is no longer being manufactured and I want to make sure before I accept that I'm doing the right thing.

 

All responses greatfully received.

 

Thanks

The housing is looking to have the same issues with the flash shade as the later powerhots have 610-620-630-640. The lens shades the flash if you want to shoot closeups which is, for me, really annoying.

Looks like a great landcamera though with a impressive build...

Thanks for that guys. My s60 had a slight problem with the shading too but with the use of my strobe this was overcome so if it's not any worse I don't see that being a major problem at the mo.

It does look an impressive camera for above the water too so I'm thinking of going ahead with it.

Other people have recommended the Fuji cameras and Olympus cameras but when I talk to above water camera sellers they all say that Canons are the best.

I was wondering about whether it was worth upgrading to the Ikelite housing instead of the Canon as they give more space under the camera if a small leak gets in to help protect the camera from getting wet but I've seen mixed reviews about Ikelite housings too saying they don't give you the full functionality that Canons do.

What are your views on Ikelite housings compared to Canons?

The housing is looking to have the same issues with the flash shade as the later powerhots have 610-620-630-640. The lens shades the flash if you want to shoot closeups which is, for me, really annoying.

 

Looks like a great landcamera though with a impressive build...

Just tried out Canon G7 underwater for 2 weeks in the Maldives. Not sure I like it. I own a Canon S80, but apart from higher pixels, G7's macro is weak, often does not focus properly. Very slow shutter response. The lens part of the Canon underwater housing is also too long for the camera making so the light from the flash is not evenly distributed over the photos - the top left hand side tended to be quite a bit brighter than the lower right hand side - even with the diffuser. Hope that helps

MJ

I borrowed a G7 from a friend on a recent trip to Philippines. If you are interested, you gan go to my fresh and unfinished homepage and look at some of the pictures: http://home.broadpark.no/~lassei/

they are al taken with the G7 and with an Inon 2000 external flash.

And please give me some feedback on my hompage - im new at constructing this things

Lasse

Lasse

Wow they are amazing photos! Did you use manual setting for all the photos? I find that with the macro mode without external strobe, very often the autofocus doesn't work too well, and the subject matter do not look too sharp. But having seen your photos, that obviously does not seem to be the case.

MJ

Lasse, thanks very much for that. You've got some grand photos there and there doesn't look like there's any problems with the macro by the looks of them

You've made the Philippines very appealing for a next dive trip too B)

Is that from using the Canon housing too?

I borrowed a G7 from a friend on a recent trip to Philippines. If you are interested, you gan go to my fresh and unfinished homepage and look at some of the pictures: http://home.broadpark.no/~lassei/

 

they are al taken with the G7 and with an Inon 2000 external flash.

 

And please give me some feedback on my hompage - im new at constructing this things

 

Lasse

Lasse, thanks very much for that. You've got some grand photos there and there doesn't look like there's any problems with the macro by the looks of them

 

You've made the Philippines very appealing for a next dive trip too B)

 

Is that from using the Canon housing too?

Thank you all for the nice comments. Im quite new at uw photo - but i have done quite a lot above water. Im allready moving to a bigger camera and housing. The D200 with a Nexus housing.

I borrowed this camera rig from a friend for this trip. When i got used to it, it was very capable of taking nice photos.

The pictures on my homepage are a combination manual and programmed settings. The camera G7 is in a original Canon housing. The most important thing is that it is used with a singel Inon 2000 flash in ttl mode.

Very nice flash. And it makes a big difference.

Lasse

To Lasse

Little feedback for the fish name correction, I hope you won't mind.

The fifth picture in the trip of Philippines 2007, the fish hide in the massive coral you name it "goby".

It actually is more close to blenny, Petroscirtes spp. (I speculate it is Petroscirtes breviceps)

I apologize if you people in your country say the common name is goby, because I am not a original english user.

BTW, other underwater picture is fantastic, I wish I can have such a good gears and diving there.

ps. the link to this fish in fishbase http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=6073

Cheers,

Colin

I borrowed a G7 from a friend on a recent trip to Philippines. If you are interested, you gan go to my fresh and unfinished homepage and look at some of the pictures: http://home.broadpark.no/~lassei/

 

they are al taken with the G7 and with an Inon 2000 external flash.

 

And please give me some feedback on my hompage - im new at constructing this things

 

Lasse

To Lasse

 

Little feedback for the fish name correction, I hope you won't mind.

The fifth picture in the trip of Philippines 2007, the fish hide in the massive coral you name it "goby".

It actually is more close to blenny, Petroscirtes spp. (I speculate it is Petroscirtes breviceps)

I apologize if you people in your country say the common name is goby, because I am not a original english user.

BTW, other underwater picture is fantastic, I wish I can have such a good gears and diving there.

 

ps. the link to this fish in fishbase http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=6073

Cheers,

 

Colin

Thank you Collin

After your post i have been sturying my books, and i tend to agree with you.The picture is most liklely of Petroscirtes breviceps. In my boook it is also called Shorthead Sabretooth Blenny

Lasse

If anyone's interested, took my G7 out for the first time yesterday, with Ike housing and substrobe. Was very impressed with the settup, although took a little getting used too (first time shooting with a strobe). Can see some at http://www.lastingmemories.com.au/scuba/byron1.html

Any feedback would be great too!

Ry.

Sorry for such a beginner question but how does the Canon housing connect to a strobe for TTL mode?

Sorry for such a beginner question but how does the Canon housing connect to a strobe for TTL mode?

No, I was thinking the same thing, both Lasse and aussie said you were using TTL? How can you do that with the original housing? Or, was this a fiberoptic slave connection?

I have seen somwhere complaints against the G7 flash exposure delay using the internal flas, did you get around that delay using the TTL connection?

Cheers

No, I was thinking the same thing, both Lasse and aussie said you were using TTL? How can you do that with the original housing? Or, was this a fiberoptic slave connection?

 

I have seen somwhere complaints against the G7 flash exposure delay using the internal flas, did you get around that delay using the TTL connection?

Cheers

Hi there! I used a fiberoptic slave connection. The inon flash has a fiberoptic cabel that connects in front of the original flash. It worked great.

Lasse