Originally Posted by Rhyth
The G7 is a DSL-Like camera and if your not going to get creative and only shoot in auto you can save a lot of money and get a cheaper P&S camera which will deliver what you want for a quarter of the price (G7 is pushing 500GBP right?).
In a way it's good to see the comments about the overspec of the G7, as part of the reason for choosing it was the ability to take it beyond just P&S. A lot of the reviews indicate that the G7 makes it easy to P&S but also gives good rewards when you start looking at getting more creative. My partner used to mess around with SLR cameras a few years ago (still got an old EOS film camera somewhere) so I wanted her to be able to do a bit more than P&S.
The G7 is around the 300GBP bracket, but obviously with a few decent memory cards, spare battery, case etc. it is going to be pushing the 500GBP mark.