Canon G7Last September, Canon unveiled the G7, the latest model from the “mythical” Series G for photographers experts and pro (see this brief). Although still advanced for a compact device with a 6 x zoom, a sensor 10 million pixels and its many settings outside the G7 has really disappointed fans of this series. He was accused of having sold the facilities to the general public by having a sensor with a resolution as high and have forgotten everything that was the spirit of the series G: the screen tilted, ‘wide-angle lens and especially the registration of Raw, so precious to save raw footage and rich in details suitable then the better the work of retouching.

Canon, through Chuck Westfall’s director of media relations and customers, has finally speak on the subject in an interview with CNET.com. Many voices were raised against the absence of registration Raw, suggesting that Canon had tried to preserve its DSLRs entry level of competition too direct. Proposed to 549 euros, or about 100 euros less than the Eos 350D, the G7 (if it had retained the advanced features of its predecessors) have actually been a serious alternative to this model and the 400D just his successor, thus potentially reducing the number of users equipped with optical Canon and thus more or less permanently connected to the mark. To these many voices, Chuck Westfall replied that “if the G7 had allowed the recording Raw, the result would have been that there have been no improvement in image quality compared to a Jpeg fine quality.” A similar size sensor, the G7 welcomes effect 10 million pixels against 7 million for the G6, which translates into pixels smaller and therefore less receptive to light signals, which complicates the filtering of noise and does not to obtain images truly “own” exit.