Ken Rockwell declared that the soon to be released (september 2009) Canon S90 Digital Camera is the World’s Best Compact Camera. He pointed out four vantage point of which the S90 excels.
- First compact camera with two click-stopped direct control rings, which is better than DSLRs! Few compacts have even one control ring, and DSLRs have maybe one.
- Fast f/2.0 zoom. This lets in twice as much light as any f/2.8 L SLR zoom, Powershot, G series or whatever.
- Full-Sized Image Sensor. Well, not really, but considering that other makers lie about their 4/3 system DSLRs and E-P1 PEN as having full sized sensors (they are really only have quarter-sized), I’m saying “full sized sensor” here to light up the fact that the S90 and G11 have the biggest sensors of any compact cameras I’ve seen. Yes, they are a lot smaller than even the puny 4/3 system sensors, but about 20% bigger in each dimension (40% bigger in area) than most other compacts. (The old G10 also has the same sized sensor, but with too many pixels jammed in.)
- Better resolution than 12MP cameras, meaning fewer pixels. Compact cameras have way too many pixels today. This makes them noisy and chokes-out details. Fewer pixels is a better choice. I usually shoot my cameras set to around 6MP, so the fat 10MP sensors of the G11 and S90 are much better ideas than 12MP and 15MP sensors jammed into other compact cameras. Finally, someone is getting serious in fixing the resolution problem.
Ken also points out that having no HD is not a weakness he claims that the S90 is Optimized for Photography and called those who bash the S90 for lacking HD movies “Gadget Hounds”.
I won’t argue with Mr. Rockwell on that. He’s well known on the field of photography, he have good points. Yes SD Video is okay but the technology is growing, sooner or later SD will die and HD will replace it. So why did Canon did not put HD video? Hmnn, perhaps they need a reason to upgrade, sooner or later they will update the S90 with HD capabilities and the ones who bough the first version of S90 have to sell and get the new one. I think it’s all marketing.
Check out his story on the S90 vs LX3 on this page.
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