Lessee, the G10 images were so good that MR was comparing them to MF - there were all those print comparisons he described, etc. I could go on for hours with all those descriptions. And you sum it up with the G10 delivering "a mess". What planet are you on? I'd say the voters are stacked way against you, and you have as much chance with that opinion as Ralph Nader of making president. Less chance, actually.
So there are some people who took that article seriously then?
Forgive me, but as a G10 owner I did not. Let me explain you why.
- all those prints comparison he described are in fact mostly one sample of a particular scene where DR is not a real factor because it is too large for all known capturing devices
- the image quality of the P45 displayed on that sample is no where close to what even my D3x can deliver. It was clearly shot in a non optimal way,
- if you are satisfied with the pixel quality of the G10, I have to ask you, what do you normally shoot with? In what world do you live?
As far as the importance of DR, I am at a loss as to why anyone would think that the G10 is even remotely close to being satisfactory here. Does it means that it cannot be used to produce good images? No.
The real problem with your opinion is not that you shouldn't have a 6 mp toy camera to play with as you please - you should have it! But you would prefer to disallow the rest of us to enjoy a 15 mp camera that under average daylight conditions will produce a photo far superior to your 6 mp toy camera. It's that attitude that "I don't like it, therefore you shouldn't have it" that I think marks you as a, hmmmm, camera censor. Bad. Very bad.
A puzzling comment for sure... you do realize that the very contrary is true, don't you? You are the very person doing what you are accusing me of doing.
There are plenty of compact digital cameras with high pixel count, so I don't see how my opinion would threaten the availability of these.
On the contrary, opinions like yours have resulted in a dramatic of shortcoming of compact digital cameras able to answer the needs to these many photographers who do not only shoot daylight scenes with limited DR. Fuji is in fact the only company trying to address seriously this market as we speak.
The whole point is positioning. The high end compact digital cameras do in fact target only a very narrow set of users:
High end DSLR/MFDB users who need a compact camera to take with them when the DSLR is not convenient for space reasons.
What this means is that a high end compact should be usable in a variety of non controlled conditions, including many cases where DR is high, where the light level is low. I don't believe that day light situations where a high resolution is required fit into that category. I use my DSLR in such circumpstances.
So all this calls for compact digital cameras that are good generic tool, and I don't believe that the G10 meets these needs well, a 6MP compact with one stop more DR would be a much better solution for most of the likely buyers of such a camera.
Final comment on this thread.
Cheers,
Bernard