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Canon PowerShot G9

At 11.3 ounces and 500 bucks, Canon’s point-and-shoot flagship requires deep pockets, both literally and figuratively. The good news—especially if you wear a lot of cargo pants—is it’s worth it, thanks to a powerful zoom, intuitive, multiple-face detection technology, a decent sized CCD sensor, and a blazing DIGIC III processor, all inside a sturdy metal retro range-finder case. Combined, those features help produce crisp, color-accurate 12-megapixel shots in very low light, and the manual and RAW modes provide as much creative freedom as your eye (and Photoshop skills) allow. (Though expect some distortion on 24x combined-zoom pics.) As an added bonus, video shot on the G9 is as crisp and stable as it comes.
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Price: $499
Resolution: 12.1 megapixels Lens: 6x optical zoom, 35-210 mm equivalent
Digital zoom: 4x
Display: 3 in. LCD
Storage: SD/SDHC card
Connectivity: USB 2.0, composite video/audio output
Weight: 11.3 oz.
Power: Lithium-ion rechargeable battery
Dimensions: 4.2 x 2.8 x 1.7 in.