Jordan and Chris from TheCameraStoreTV just posted that Canon G7X vs. Sony RX100 MK III Shootout. The G7X is a great camera but also that one has some symptoms typical of the Canonitis disease. Just watch the video to learn what’s wrong with the cam 🙂
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Canonitis is a serious disease that I don’t which for any manufacturer and so far it looks incurable, some say that innovation could be the cure but as far as I know, Canon has no idea what that means, which clearly makes things harder.
Excellent comparison and Canonitis is a serious disease. Had this been over a year ago the G7X would be interesting, but this is the end of 2014 and Canon is working by the wrong calendar and once again behind the times.
VERY disappointing from Canon again. Yes the Canon diehards will buy it, but informed consumers know better…go with the RX100 III.
G7X vs RX100 results were not surprising. Confirmation that G7X still lags in the AF speed to me was pretty much the final nail in the coffin. And, heck, we are comparing a new, just released camera with one sold for more than half year now.
P.S. (The real rant.) I do not like the quality of the recent TheCameraStoreTV’s videos.
(1) 4K. I’d wager that YouTube’s downsampling to 1080 sucks. All TheCameraStoreTV 4K videos look pretty bad (lack of detail) when viewed in 1080 (which is the max res of my monitor). That pretty much ruins camera reviews, since the image samples displayed in the video are of low quality.
(2) Video quality of the Sony a7S. I’ve seen the effect on YouTube and Vimeo, so I’m pretty sure that is the property of the camera, not compression for the web artifact: too much motion blur. At some perspective, the difference is simply way too distracting: one second interviewer face is sharp and fine, then s/he moves a bit – and immediately it is all washed out, blurry, devoid of any details. (There were couple of these moments in this video.) In some frames with motion, one can see the details – in others the details are again washed out. (In the video, there are lots of frames with grass. Look at it carefully.) Frankly, from the a7S I have expected flawless, impeccable 1080 video quality. It is kind of disappointing.
Which is worse Canonitis or Nikonitis? Oh!!! It’s a variation of the same disease!
To me all this talk of Canonitis is silly. This camera provides the most reduced DOF capability in a pocketable camera EVER. 100mm @f/2.8 with a 1″ sensor equates to f/7.5 DOF (35mm equiv). It’s also 1/3 to 2/3 stop faster than the RX100 Mark III between 35-50mm. So it has a overall fastest lens more range and still keeps a pocketable body. To me getting 100mm @f/2.8 vs. 75mm @f/2.8 is a big deal. I shoot a lot of portraits of my kids and 100mm is just long enough for many situation whereas 75mm I’m always reaching forward, etc.
So yes, this is a copycat camera in many ways, but so what? It’s differentiated enough IMO to be a successful product.
well how can you shoot your kids running around when the autofocus is suck? for me the full sensor read out and the higher bit rate of video rx100 iii make it win landslide over the canon.
I cannot speak for the af as I don’t own the camera. So I don’t know if the af is so bad that I couldn’t shoot my kids running around. My rx100 ii is just OK for shooting moving targets, so my expectations are low to begin with that any pocketable cam is really great in that regard. If I want super fast af, ill get the a6000 or dslr. That being said, my point was about the aspects of the camera that are different and new,.., mainly the lens range , speed, and DOF control. I was making this point to refute the suggestion that Canon is not being innovative/late to the party (“canonitis”) etc. I was not saying that it didn’t have faults.
A classic: Canonitis (Noun/Latin Origin)
– To never go the full step you really need to innovate and take over the market.
Sad to see the performance of the G7X.