My Powershot S90 Has Arrived, and It's Fantastic!

I was very pleased to have eventually obtained my Powershot S90, and without farther adieu, let me state that this is one heck of a camera. It's not flawless -- you can take truly awful pictures with it just like you can take awful pictures with a D700 -- but when utilised correctly, the camera turns out amazing shots that make us find it hard to accept the images are coming from a camera that aligns in your pants pouch.

What struck me first upon utilising it? First, it's dimensions. This thing is little, and it's lightweight, too. It's a bit smaller than my Panasonic TZ3 and TZ5, and it's lighter, too. (The camera utilises a front and back steel building with artificial on the peak and bottom, but the Panasonic's, while furthermore using metal, use a wider measure iron alloy which adds a seem of sturdiness but furthermore adds some heaviness, as well). The camera also has a high-quality seem to it. The buttons bang and weigh down well (although the back wheel is a bit too easy to turn, in my opinion). It has a circular form, so it feels comfortable in the hands, and when you attach it in your pocket, it will skid right in and out without snagging. The computer display on this thing is easily gorgeous: why can't every camera have a screen like this? It's large, brilliant, and attractive high in tenacity (461,000 pixels). You can't help but adore the camera's cone timeive one time you get looking at it and utilising it.

Next, the camera appears to perform well in terms of hasten and overall operational use. The computer display has the usual lag when taking shots, but you can adjust this somewhat in the menu scheme to hasten things up, and quite candidly, every little camera I've ever belongs to exhibits this demeanour. It is easy to use most of the camera's purposes, and you may have perceived about the programmable command ring around the lens on the front of the camera. It's procedure is very simple, solid (the ring "clicks" with detents at distinct positions), and, to boot, there is the benchmark programmable "S" button that the Powershots "S" cameras have normally had.

But of course, I'm involved in high ISO operation, and so I directly took it into the livingroom where it was rather dark, and just started shooting. I was rather shocked at the results. You are not going to necessarily submit these to win any contests, but for the most part, the camera took nice shots even in that awful shooting natural environment, and the vast most of the photos came out rather well (I will post a couple of with this review). The camera is the first (along with the Powershot G11) to establish Sony's new ICX685CQZ sensor, a 9.31mm diagonal sensor with high presentation specifications. With a little post processing, many of them gaze rather good. As the ISO crept into the very high ranges (800 and overhead) some sensor disturbance became apparent, but this is absolutely the best low-light presentation I've glimpsed in a non-DSLR so far. (See my interpretations, underneath, to glimpse why this is possible). Surprisingly, some shots as high as 1600 ISO appeared to be agreeable as long as you are not a "pixel peeper." I was rather surprised when I discovered that a few of the shots had been taken at this high ISO 1600 level -- I've not ever had this know-how before with a point and fire camera.

Outdoor procedure is truly incredible. My outdoor shots for the most part have arrive out very well, with wealthy hue, large minutia, and little sensor disturbance. Like most Canon portables, these images appear to reply well to post-processing (you can sharpen them rather effortlessly, and Canon now benefits a benchmark meta-data tagging format that is readable by effectively all photo reviewer programs.) I even turned the EV down -2/3 while out-of-doors, and the sensitivity of the camera is so good that, even with this decrease in EV, my shots came out pointed and clear. Again, I will mail a few shots with this reconsider.

The camera really excels at macro photography. The macro shots I've taken therefore far are clear, pointed, and have large deepness of field. In a phrase, they are superb: this camera is a macro shooter's great pleasure. (A nice touch, too, is that in AUTO mode the camera automatically moves into macro mode, without having to press any buttons!) The functionality just begs us to hold shooting macros over and over again. I've been able to take macro shots that I only dreamed of before, and the camera makes it very simple to do so.

And although this is not an objective measure, the camera is just simple joy to use. It works smoothly, is lightweight, has a beautiful computer display, and appears to keep cranking out one nice shot after another. Wow.