Results!

Blown away!!  The G617 delivers for sure!  The lens is as sharp as they come, although I was shooting mostly at F32!  Below is one of the photos at Zion National Park.  It's down converted quite a bit so it's not as sharp, and I did not use a drum scanner for these scans, just my Epson V700.

One thing I learned is how to frame a shot with this camera.  Whatever you see on the eye piece is not what you get in the picture.  I framed it with a lot more room on all sides, but it came back tighter than I expected.  Overall though, I still had a great experience with the test.

It's a bulky and somewhat heavy camera, but it's all worth it!