A keeper to be tamed

A lot of buyers are greatly confused about what cameras are. Let's lay it out straight here, its not the camera that needs to adjust, it's the user. Don't blame the camera because it did not live with your expectations, blame yourself for not knowing enough before you buy it, If you want Fuji's great low-light sensor, you will have to buy the Fuji and not look for it in a Canon (this is why hobbyist tend to collect more and more units and lenses as time goes by -there is no one ring to rule them all). That said, I bought the G7 because it best satisfied my needs. All other cameras have superiority over the other at some point, but based on my personal matrix, the G7 inched a score higher in areas that are important to me:

1. Looks: My co worker asked why I'm using film, not knowing it was a digital, the retro look got me at hello.
2. Controls: For beginners it will take a while to master the G7, I like the fact that it can force you to learn and look back at your photography knowledge. There's Auto mode of course but if you want auto everything, you don't need to get a G7, get something cheaper.
3. Build; Brick , brick, brick. You can use as a weapon as last resort to an imminent threat. I wanted to keep some camera and not end up selling it when new models arrive. that said, the friendly old man at the camera shop assured me about the legend of the number 7 - that Canon will forever protect this model number (remember rangefinder 7, EOS 7s). It was built as a keeper.
4. IQ: with intelligence passed from Canon SLRs and hundreds of reviewers attesting to its image quality, I am now a follower of that belief. But still, on inexperienced hands it will not create miracles...unless its in full auto, on a very bright day, on a great scene, at proper angle..etc etc.
5.Imperfections: A perfect camera would be a bore, I'd rather shoot with a Lomo. It may lack some important stuff like RAW, swivel monitor, bright lens and all that stuff I can live without. What I cannot live without and what G7 all had in its package are: IS (not superv but it helps), extra zoom (again not too much but there), black color, good retro styling, hot shoe, lens conversions(was reviewed as heavy and doesn't do well with flash and eyepiece), size to go in with other stuff in a nerd's bag (its not pocketable ok, unless you really fancy big bulky stuff plastered around your body), manual SLR controls.

That said, it has a little bit of everything I need, it does not always excel on those little bits but in the end when I sum the parts, it all adds up to the best camera that is capable of giving me what i want....now, if only the Fuji engineer who handles the sensors would cross to Canon and the Canon designer over to Fuji...