I was thinking about buying a new camera some tim eago, as an add-on to my Pentax k100d dslr.

Canon G9.

Well, I've made up my mind and bought it.

Now I've been testing it intensively, some photos are in my queue waiting for approval.

I love it for its compactness, RAW ability, manual operations available (including focus), incredible macro distance (1 cm!) It has a flash hot shoe, I can easily use my wireless flash with it, shweeet.

Well, it won't be a dslr ever - high ISO's (400 and above) are practically (well, for stock photo) useless because of the noise. U can deal with it somehow, using your noise reduction software, still it;s much better at low ISO's. Knowing ...