I just finished the tests I did with the Canon G5, and also compared its sharpness quality against a slide taken with a Nikon FTn/24mm/2.8 on a Velvia 50 film. You can read the full tests and review here: http://www.photo- direct.net/cameras/Canon_G5.htm
I don't think this is really a great test since you scanned the negative for the web, we really don't know the quality of the scanning, which is much more important than your lens or the film. Andrew
Andrew, I dont understand your comment. Can you not see the hyperlinks to the Canon G5-generated TIFF and JPEG files on my page? The goal was to allow readers to assess themselves the differences between these formats and THEN decide to agree or disagree with my findings. Who talks about scanning negatives for the web here? I also realized that I made a mistake, an extra blank space in the path to my page, that makes the link unusable. Please click HERE to go to my page.