Canon G9 Discontinued?

You've just got to ignore the madness to have the latest, fastest, biggest... As a G9 owner I'm looking foward to the G12. The G10 and G11 can take a running jump... (unless the 50D tempts me first...)

Hi Dad!

The short port stays on my G7 ... and it's an easy swich by quickly taking off or putting on my WA lens

Same here. I usually plop in with the W/A adapter on the camera and the macro glass in a neoprene pouch in my pocket. On my last trip, I got into a routine where I would shoot wide angle on the first bit and switch over towards the end of the dive to macro as we puttered near the boat. I have a neoprene pouch for the W/A adapter as well in another pocket.

I keep the short port on all the time. With two stacked INON UCL-165s, I typically zoom to about 10mm from 7mm and with the W/A adapter I typically use it zoomed to 9mm to avoid vignetting.

I've never really wanted or needed to zoom past the point allowed by the short port.

For macro shots I suspect I do occasionally zoom past the point allowed by the short port but I certainly do so when using the UCL-330 for portaits. I actually prefer the singular discipline of either a w/a dive or a macro / portrait dive...