Review: Canon G7X and Fantasea FG7X Underwater Housing

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Fan-FGG7X-1.jpgReview: Canon G7X and Fantasea FG7X Underwater Housing

Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?
Although I had a lot of high-priced cameras along on my Solomon Islands trip, I also decided to take along the less expensive and friendly Canon G7X compact and the Fantasea G7X housing. The Canon G7X has had a lot of play in photo news sources as a “G16 replacement” and answer to the popular Sony RX-100.

The Canon G7X sports the same sort of 24mm (35mm equivalent) f/1.8 lens, and large 1” sensor that should give it the image quality of m4/3rds cameras, and a competitor to the the Panasonic LX-100 and other similar high-end compact cameras. I wanted to get a feel for how it stacked up. (Read more...)



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