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Canon has issued an update for the excellent G9 in the form of, yes, the G10. Internally, there are are only a couple of notable changes: the pixel count climbs from 12.1MP to 14.7MP, and the G10 gets Canon's new DIGIC 4 processor that, amongst general speed and quality improvements, adds "servo-AF" which tracks the focus on a moving subject right up until the shutter fires.
More interesting are the changes to the outside. The body remains much the same, with a grippy rubber coating on the hand-grip, but the controls have moved around. The separate ISO dial (this alone was one of the G9's great features) has now been stacked with the main control dial, and exposure compensation has been given its own dial (pictures below). This is excellent news, meaning you can shoot in most situations without going near an on-screen menu.
The lens is similar, but new, with an ƒ2.8-4.5 28-140mm zoom (5x) and the camera gets i-Contrast, which is Canon's contrast-squashing technology. Still present are the G9's image stabilization and of course, RAW shooting. Lastly, the maximum ISO is still 1600. I guess Canon didn't want to push things too far after cramming almost 15 million pixels onto that tiny chip.
Press release [Canon]
