Splurging

Before diving trip to Cozumel this year I splurged: Canon recently came out with Powershot G7x that is so well suited for underwater photography that I could not control myself and bought it together with Canon housing.

Spending over $1000 on equipment ($300 housing and $700 camera) for the type of photography that will never bring me a dime makes totally no sense. But G7x is so good for shooting moving subjects in low light environment (marine life underwater) that not having it would haunt me on every dive.
G7x beats my faithful Powershot S100 substantially in four major photography specs : Sensor size (3x bigger) sensor resolution (20MP vs. 12), lens speed at all focal distances, and continues shooting speed (6.5 fps vs. 2.3). That is huge.

To make long story short, I brought back over 800 images and practically nothing was out of focus or unacceptably noisy at ISO limited to 3200. That said, I found only 8 images suitable for posting to my website (15 shots from last year's trip using S100), but none of that was G7x ’s fault.
So what’s the conclusion? While Canon G7x beats three years old S100 in every aspect of photography, it is bulkier, heavier, loaded with features that has very little to do with picture taking (but we are paying for them anyway) and is 3 times more expensive. While S100 was always my take -everywhere camera, G7X will rip holes in my pockets before I even notice it.

So as it stand right now, my 3 years old Powershot S100 is with me all the time, G7x is staying home waiting for my next dive vacation, and I shoot sports and nature with my D7200.

I always believed that there are no bad cameras, just us, bad photographers.

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