Roger,
I must have missed this thread, being at the Birdfair when you posted it. Just coming to it now as a result of your PM.
The G6 certainly looks like a good camera. The G3 I had was reasonable for digiscoping, although a little less convenient than the Coolpix series due to there being no commercial adapter to attach it to the scope. I presume you've seen my
THREAD about digiscoping with the G3?
I thought the focus bracketing sounded like a good idea, but didn't really give it that much of a test. The best feature was the remote release - I found that very useful to avoid camera shake.
I see from the review that they're now including the battery charger - there wasn't one with my G3 and I had to buy a universal charger from Jessops to avoid having to charge the battery in the camera.
I didn't find vignetting to be that much of a problem. It was easily cropped out in-computer if the subject wasn't taking up too much of the frame.
I used to leave the Lensmate adapter in place instead of the supplied lens surround, then it was easier to attach my home-made digiscoping adapter and slip it over the scope eyepiece. I didn't carry it around like this, though, as there were no screws holding it in place.
The manual mode 2x magnification area, mentioned below by Jay, was very useful. A small square in the centre of the LCD becomes magnified to enable more accurate focusing on the subject. I used that most of the time.
I found the picture quality to be better than the Coolpix 995 that I had, and I did get some better digiscoped results with the G3. In fact, I sometimes wish that I hadn't sold it now, but I upgraded to the 10D at the beginning of this year and gave up on digiscoping, as the results were not as good as I had hoped after two years of trying. This was probably more my fault - not the camera.
