Imaging Resource is the first website to review the new 7 megapixel Canon PowerShot G6.

“Good image noise levels, a significant improvement over the G5 model. More importantly, a very fine-grained noise pattern makes the noise less objectionable. The chart above compares the PowerShot G6’s noise performance over a range of ISOs against that of other cameras. As I’m writing this, we haven’t yet seen any other cameras with 7-megapixel chips in them, so this comparison is against a couple of other “high end” 8-megapixel units, as well as against the earlier G5, to show the improvement Canon managed with the G6. (This last is particularly impressive, given the smaller pixels in the G6’s sensor.) As you can see, the G6 falls somewhere between the Nikon 8700 and Konica Minolta A2. What doesn’t show in this graph is the very smooth, fine-grained nature of the G6’s noise pattern, which makes it much less evident to the eye than the noise of many other cameras.”

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