Canon G11 vs 60D

[Ati]

Kathy, I can only thank you once more for all these very helpful links and tips. I laughed out loud at Cicala.
Pity about the Minolta hot shoe, I really liked the look of the Sony Alpha. I'll check out if there are Minolta / Canon hot shoe adaptors. Anyway, a lot of fun learning in perspective (blue pill, red pill, and achieving the white (rabbit ?) balance )
Urban, thanks for going a little deeper on w.b., I'll need to work on that in my PP skills.

Thanks once again to all for helping this DIFF try and limit the ERFLOKs. I may even get to justify to myself throwing some money at some shiny new kit, and that will be fun as well !

[inkista]

Kathy, I can only thank you once more for all these very helpful links and tips. I laughed out loud at Cicala.

I love his blog. The hammer forum one is another classic Cicala essay, particularly if you hang out on the dpreview or fredmiranda forums, and his current series on how he's deciding which camera to buy is rather a treat.

Pity about the Minolta hot shoe, I really liked the look of the Sony Alpha. I'll check out if there are Minolta / Canon hot shoe adaptors.

There are no brand-to-brand adapters. Each brand keeps its signalling system proprietary and more or less under wraps, so anything other than the sync ("fire") signal is different between systems and there's no real way to translate from one to the other. But there are Minolta -> ISO hotshoe adapters. ISO compliant simply means the two-rails as ground, the center pin as sync, and the physical dimensions of the hotshoe/foot are followed. And there are 3rd party triggers and flashes that use the Minolta hotshoe, they're just a little harder to find than the ISO ones.

If, however, you wanted TTL function, you'd have to get flashes/triggers/sync cable that fit the Minolta hotshoe.

BTW, if it's the in-body stabilization you're most eager for, Pentax dSLRs have that as well.

[revi]

Sony also uses in-body image stabilisation.

[Ati]

Just to update all of you who helped with advice on my conclusions :
- keep my excellent G11 as snapshotter, at least, or as second camera
- IF I decide to go for more gear, expand my budget x 2 or x 3, on the grounds of : (a) if not now, when ? and (b) no use throwing out 1k€ to get stuff that's only a bit better than what I've got, and (c) I can (trade-off on a promise of a holiday in Morocco).
- IF I decide to go for more gear, go Canon for the camera, on the grounds of (a) compatibility HW & SW (b) familiarity with the look & feel, and (c) they don't have red stripes, and I'm told that is goodness. So that means no 4/3, but thanks for the suggestion, and it means waiting to see what the 70D looks like.
- the two IFs depend mostly on my coming to some sort of conclusion about how important photography is going to be for me going forward. Time to upgrade from 'Pastime 1.5' to ' Hobby 3.0' ?
- the only thing I'm certain I need right now is a good Canon tilt-&-swivel flash ('the Blue Pill' in Kathy Li's terms ). When I've seen how that works out with the G11, time for more decisions. Oh, and probably a large sheet of white cardboard as well. Good solid tripod, I have.