hovers.org » Canon cameras http://www.hovers.org Independent reviews Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:12:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Canon PowerShot S90 http://www.hovers.org/canon-powershot-s90/ http://www.hovers.org/canon-powershot-s90/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:47:11 +0000 admin http://www.hovers.org/?p=403 Canon PowerShot S90 is a high-end point-and-shoot digital camera aimed at professional users with its wide array of features. That is not to say, of course, that less professional user can’t benefit from all the Canon PowerShot S90’s goodies. Read on for details.

Canon PowerShot S90 pros:

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+ Nice design, compact body
+ 10 megapixel photos
+ Good color accuracy
+ Little noise
+ Sharp images
+ Good quality 3-inch screen
+ Well balanced, comfortable grip

Canon PowerShot S90 cons:

- Nice reduction makes photos look soft
- Videos have little detail
- Merely 3.8 zoom lens

The design:
Canon PowerShot S90 measures 100 x 58 x 31 mm and weighs 175 grams. The front of the camera houses the 3.8x Canon zoom lens, the autofocus illuminator and the control ring. The back go the Canon PowerShot S90 features the 3-inch LCD screen, the mode dial, 4-way controller and a few more controls. The controls at the back are a bit small so people with bigger hands might have difficulties using them. The left side has no ports, or controls, whereas the right side houses HDMI port cover and A/V out port cover. On the bottom there is the tripod mount and the battery and memory card cover. The Canon PowerShot S90 houses the pop-up flash, power button, shutter release and the mode dial.

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Performance:
The Canon PowerShot S90 can shoot up to 10 megapixel photos (3648 x 2736), but megapixels are not everything nowadays. The image resolution is as important and the camera does a very good job with it. There is little distortion in the images which always look very sharp. The chromatic aberration is almost non-existent and the image stabilization works really well.



Image quality:
The Canon PowerShot S90 produces very accurate colors so you don’t even have to set any manual mode. If, however, you decide to make use of a color mode you have 9 f them to choose from. The camera produces little noise and it this respect it is better than the Olympus E-P1 camera reviewed recently. In fact when it comes to noise the Canon PowerShot S90 is one of the best cambered in this price range.

Video quality:
The Canon PowerShot S90 can record videos in up to 640 x 480 using the H.264 compression. The files are recorded as .mov files so you should not have problems finding some editing software. Although the color in still images is very good it is much worse in videos. Unfortunately, also sharpness in not so good which means the videos are not really too good and they are practically only goof for youtube.


All in all, the Canon PowerShot S90 is a very good point-and-shoot digital camera for taking photos, but not so much for recording videos, but that’s really as much as you can get for that price.
Selected Canon PowerShot S90 features and specifications:

  • Optical sensor

CCD

  • Sensor Resolution

10 megapixels

  • Photodetectors

10 million

  • Zoom range

3.8

  • Focal length

28mm to 106.4mm (35mm-equivalent)

  • Light sensitivity (auto)

80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200 ISO

  • Lens aperture

F2.0-4.9

  • Normal focus range (min)

5 cm

  • Shutter speed

15 – 1/1600

  • Creative controls

Yes

  • LCD size

3 inch

  • Type of flash

Built-in

  • Tripod mount

Yes

  • Battery type

Lithium

  • Storage type

Secure Digital, Secure Digital HC

  • Hotshoe

Yes

  • Still image format

JPEG, RAW

  • Max. image resolution

3648 x 2736

  • Digital video capture

Yes

  • Max video resolution

640 x 480 @ 30 fps

  • Audio capture

Yes

  • Face recognition

Yes
Other recently reviewed digital cameras:

Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3, Kodak EasyShare Z950, Nikon Coolpix L100, Olympus E-P1

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