Canon PowerShot S90 10MP Digital Camera with 3.8x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3-inch LCD
- New 10-megapixel High Sensitivity System; DIGIC 4 Image Processor
- Improved low-light image performance, plus a Low Light scene mode for ISO settings up to 12,800
- Customizable control ring for easy access and operation of manual or other creative shooting settings
- Wide-angle 3.8x optical zoom with Canon’s Optical Image Stabilizer; bright f/2.0 lens
- RAW + JPEG shooting and recording modes; capture images to SD/SDHC memory cards (not included)
Product Description
The pocketable PowerShot S90 gives powerful everyday shooting. Shoot quickly with a lens control ring and get superior low-light performance with a high-sensitivity 10.0 MP CCD and f/2.0 lens.A high-sensitivity CCD sensor gives outstanding image quality in a wide variety of lighting conditions. Even images taken at high ISOs show exceptionally low noise levels and a wide dynamic range.A bright f/2.0 aperture allows exceptional versatility, capturing low-light images and fast-moving subjects at higher shutter speeds. A wide angle of 28mm lets you put more in the frame, while Canon’s optical IS reduces blur caused by camera shake…. More >>
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Canon touts the new S90 as a camera for photographers, a camera I waited for all summer. I purchase one locally the day they became available, and after shooting several hundred images over a week, I took it back to the store. The S90 exhibited some of the worst barrel distortion I’ve seen from any camera, much worse than my SD780IS or my even older SD950IS. To me, the S90 is a camera that does most things pretty well but nothing exceptionally well. Endless Scene Modes and video are not things I find necessary, but virtually every camera in the upper-end point-and-shoot arena offer these “Features” which further serves to make the S90 nothing special. I’m now waiting for the Leica X1, it also is advertised as a camera for photographers..we’ll see.
Rating: 1 / 5
I spent weeks reseaching for the perfect camera, and when I finally picked the s90, I wish I had known about the infamous “lens error” before. The day out of the box, took 5 pictures, next thing I know I try to turn it off and the lens won’t retract, showing a message that said “lens error – restart camera”. I panicked and googled the error, and as it turns out, this error has affected about 10,000 units in the production. Of course I shipped the camera back to Amazon the next day, and will be getting a refund. Needless to say, will never ever ever buy from cannon again – what’s wrong with these people?
Rating: 1 / 5
I was very excited when I received this camera…well my excitement was short lived. I may have gotten a lemon because the pictures taken with my canon sd990 was a lot clearer, sharper and cleaner. My sd990 would take low light picture at iso 400 and s90 would take it at iso 800. Both were set on Auto. I compared those pictures that were taken at the same iso 800 and the pictures of s90 was blurred and noiser. Some has white patches on it. I have no choice but to return it back.
Rating: 1 / 5
Why oh why are these potentially great cameras leaving out optical viewfinders? I swear, every time I find a camera that seems perfect for me, it lacks a viewfinder. I realize that the LCD display is more popular than ever, but is that really any reason to leave out a standard optical viewfinder? Am I really the only person that feels this way? (Am I really getting that old?)
Rating: 3 / 5
This camera does not do HD videos and in fact the videos out of this camera look no better than what smartphones can do. This is a huge oversight and a camera that costs this much should be able to do HD, something other cameras in this price range and size have been able to do now for over a year.
Also, the battery life is quite bad and will typically not even last you through the day of usage.
Another negative is this camera exhibits some pretty bad barrel distortion which can be easily seen if you take a straight on picture of a building for example. What’s a bit insipid about this is that the camera’s LCD screen does not show this, it actually corrects the image for display on the screen. But, transfer the picture to your computer and it will look distorted. The only way to fix this correctly currently (as of this review) is to shoot RAW and use Canon’s DPP software.
For me, these negatives outweigh any positives given that there is a camera that performs better image-wise, can do HD videos and has longer battery life, the Panasonic LX3 or Leica D-LUX 4 (these two are basically the same camera).
Rating: 2 / 5