Hello all,
I'm interested in purchasing a Canon G11. It seems to me as an execellent camera and I was ready to rush to the store and get it until I read about an issue with the automatic lens cover scratching the lens (dpreview). They say that the lens cover blades are too close to the lens and *touch* the lens almost every time they open/close and therefore they cause small scratches on the lens surface that, over time, increase.
It seems to me that it is pretty much inevitable and would hate to get scratches on a $500 camera within its first week of operation.
I would really like to hear the experiences from G11 owners; do you have such scratches?
Thanks for your time!
-Axel
P.S.: I went to a store and saw the G11 up close. I also did a test: placed a finger gently on the lens cover blades and they simply opened a little bit! Of course a couple more cameras I tested were also easy to push open their blades. I noticed that the cover surface on the G11 is much larger than almost all the compact cameras out there so it makes sense that it is much harder for a spring to hold the blades closed. Overall it is a great camera but I cannot decide to buy it because it seems to be it has no actual lens protection!
I'm interested in purchasing a Canon G11. It seems to me as an execellent camera and I was ready to rush to the store and get it until I read about an issue with the automatic lens cover scratching the lens (dpreview). They say that the lens cover blades are too close to the lens and *touch* the lens almost every time they open/close and therefore they cause small scratches on the lens surface that, over time, increase.
It seems to me that it is pretty much inevitable and would hate to get scratches on a $500 camera within its first week of operation.
I would really like to hear the experiences from G11 owners; do you have such scratches?
Thanks for your time!
-Axel
P.S.: I went to a store and saw the G11 up close. I also did a test: placed a finger gently on the lens cover blades and they simply opened a little bit! Of course a couple more cameras I tested were also easy to push open their blades. I noticed that the cover surface on the G11 is much larger than almost all the compact cameras out there so it makes sense that it is much harder for a spring to hold the blades closed. Overall it is a great camera but I cannot decide to buy it because it seems to be it has no actual lens protection!