As always, everything above iso 1600 is of special interest :) The quality of those images are well on par or above all Canon cropped DSLRs, including the 7D:
"Please enjoy the gallery of studio sample images taken using new Canon G1 X compact camera. The samples are JPEG files with lowest level of sharpening and lowest level of compression. As soon as possible we will show you outdoor samples."
Will Canon ever release a compact camera system? Yes, they pretty much have to. In the meantime they stuffed an aps-c sensor in some oversized g12ish body, and came up with this:
"Shots taken at high ISO settings were consistently clean and noise-free up to
P.S The new, Serious and more business conscious Ken Rockwell appears to have changed the wording, the context, heck, everything in his review of this camera. It is no longer "less responsive than his kids toys", and not worse of all Nikon DSLRs ever made. It (the Canon EOS 5D Mark II) is now better than any Nikon at almost everything, and overall, one of the best cameras ever made. Go figure. Quote of his old review, and our comment at the bottom of this post.
'So far' until the Fujifilm X-Pro1 gets the DXO treatment of course, that camera can look at a full framer right in the eye. Quick notes: It trumps
the Nikon 1 system by far and large, every m43 camera except for the Panasonic GX1, and in turn gets trampled on by both Sony NEXes and every current aps-c DSLR: