Canon PowerShot G10?

Anyone have one? I've been doing less and less photography lately and my Nikon D70 is starting to be too big to lug around. So I'm considering selling the D70 + lenses for a G10 since it seems to have most of the high end features without the size of the DSLR. Anyone using a G10? If so what do you like/dislike about it?

*gasp* I'm heart broken I've actually thought about something similar to toss in my wife's purse when we go places where the DSLR is a bit much. I'm curious to hear opinions on the powershot line myself.

The G10s are very good cameras ... nice big lens, full manual, and it doesn't really look like a compact. If you're going to get a DSLR replacement in the compact range these are probably the best you could get, even my uni has a horde of them.

Thanks Breeze. I think its between the Canon G10 and the Panasonic LX3 which as far as I can tell is the exact same hardware as the Leica d-lux 4 for about $400 less. Anyone have any thoughts between the two?

I bought a magazine the other day that had a review on the G10 ... I'll see if I can dig it up.

Didn't say much in the magazine, but have a look at this: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare ... 1&show=all

You can do side-by-side comparisons of just about any cameras ... on the nav bar go to Buying Guide > Side-by-side and then select the cameras you want to compare.

Well its done. I sold my DSLR (still don't know what I was thinking) after about 12hrs on craigslist. Now I've ordered a G10 which should arrive by early next week.

So I'm hoping that my photography will improve given the rule of mass. (I'm assuming I'll take more photos with a little portable camera and therefor my overall images will improve...) but I'll give a better overview of my experiences when the camera arrives.

Keep us posted. I'd like to hear your thoughts after a few clicks.

Will do. I'm looking forward to having something I'm willing to actually carry.

I like Canon better than Nikon, though

Nikon's got some nice lenses. I've known avid Canon fans to use converters and a Nikon glass or two, so I try not to bad-mouth them too much.

I live to keep people guessing.

Anyway, I'm not going to start the Nikon/Canon war here other than to say that I bought it originally to be able to make use of the lenses I acquired for the Nikon F100 (film body) that I had at the time. Also when I bought the D70 it was pretty much a choice between that and a Canon 10D that suffered from horrible boot lag. Meaning you couldn't just pull out the 10D and snap a shot which doesn't really fit my shooting style.

I've never really been much for brand loyalty. I tend to go for the best option at any given time. In this case Nikon doesn't really make a comparable prosumer compact camera so the choice was between the Canon G10 and Leica D-Lux 4. I couldn't really justify the extra $350 for the Leica so the choice was pretty easy. However that said I'm sure we could find plenty of people who could argue that a Leica is far far superior to any Canon or Nikon so its really all about perspective.