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Canon PowerShot S90 Digital Camera (10 Megapixel, 3.8 Optical Zoom) 3.0 inch LCD

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Press this with a fingernail and the S90 powers up for action in just over a second, rear LCD bursting into life soundtracked by a musical ‘sting' and lens barrel extending from its stacked hiding place within the camera's innards to its maximum wide angle setting.

zoom lens, RAW format support, optical image stabilizer to help combat camera-shake, and a 1cm macro mode. This is a very full-featured model which features full-manual controls, including manual focus, and highly efficient controls. The Canon S90 also captures movies, only they're in VGA resolution at 30 frames per second, rather than the increasingly common HD format.

The S90 does it just right so images just get a little grainier at fast speeds as does film, but never blotchy, as other digital camera do. If you assign the front ring -- which has wonderfully stiff detents -- to EV compensation, the rear ring then controls the ISO setting.

Less predictable - and disappointingly so - is that video clips are of bog standard 640x480 pixels resolution rather than the increasingly ubiquitous 1280x720 or 1920x1080: the fabled Full HD. Every other compact digital camera uses nasty noise reduction that smears over the images but leave big, colored blotches. Also, you can subscribe to my feed at the upper right of any page and be notified of when new reviews are posted! But that's good news for us, the consumer, because Canon's also a massive company capable of turning on a dime to introduce an array of cameras to answer any challenge, giving us more choices.Banding is non existent on the S90, something that DXOMark does not test for, nor is it included or influence test results. The handling takes some getting used to, which I guess is inevitable given how much Canon has tried to cram into a camera the size of an Ixus/Elph. pixel radius, 200%) produces similar results onscreen, but excellent results on the prints as well, producing great-looking Letter size prints. If your camera scores in those ranges, likely its a camera that can produce excellent image quality for the class of camera that its in.

On 'Auto' it will do everything for you, on manuel you can have the freedom to use it as you would with a DSLR. It represented a truly pocketable enthusiast compact to compete with Panasonic's dominating LX series, only it was even smaller and had better image quality than those cameras, and, any other enthusiast subcompact zoom lens camera at the time. Familiar, in that they ape those found on the G11 to a fair extent, including the love it or ignore it scroll wheel surrounding the thumb operated four-way control pad. Canon markets the PowerShot S90 as "the perfect everyday camera for people who are serious about great photography. The programmable Control ring is a mixed bag, but it works great for ISO and for aperture in Manual mode.

In fact, the S90 feels like a point-and-shoot camera that, to use crass MTV parlance, has been ‘pimped'. Apart from the enticingly tactile draw of the lens ring, the flat front plate of the S90 houses a microphone within a hole the size of a pinprick plus an AF assist/self timer lamp window top left of the lens. Perhaps more predictably, point-and-shoot user friendliness on the S90 comes in the form of the fully automatic face detection, motion detection and Smart Auto scene detection technologies regularly found on Canon's snapshot compacts. My opinion is that compact digital cameras that came after 2007 or so showed a marked increase in image quality over predecessors. Its smaller size means greater portability than the more bulky G11, and the full-stop advantage it has makes it particularly attractive; besides, the Canon S90 is a new design, and the G-series has been evolving for a long time.

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