Canon G9X review

Bertie Gregory · Issue 89, Mar/Apr 2016 · pp. 28–30

Products mentioned: Canon G9X, Recsea housing, Inon wide angle wet lens, Inon Z240 strobes

I’ll begin by saying this is not going to be a classic geek fest review. I won’t be pixel peeping and I definitely won’t be using graphs that require a degree in computer science to interpret. Instead, I’m going to discuss the quality of a few key features that you actually need to take notice of underwater. I took the G9X to the Red Sea for a weeklong liveaboard with Scuba Travel. I used it with a Recsea housing and an Inon wide angle wet lens. I shot mainly with ambient light but I also used a pair of Inon Z240 strobes. Low Light Performance With the release of every new camera, low light performance continues to be a hot topic. Canon and Nikon seem to be leading the arms race in the DSLR market, whilst Sony are dominating the competition with mirrorless cameras. Compact cameras (of which the G9X is one) seem to receive less attention in this area and traditionally have been pretty poo…