Canon PowerShot S90 IS
PowerShot S90 IS

You can visit DPR for a gallery of sample images from the upcoming PowerShot S90.

Read More: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0909/09091802canons90gallery.asp

Looks like a solid camera to me on the image quality side.

I have read some folks that think it’s a bit too “plasticy”. We’ll see when we get our grubby hands on it.

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22 Comments

  1. If you don’t look too hard, 800 and even 1600 ISO shots look usable for certain types of photos. That is great for a point and shoot. I am waiting to see G11 shots….

  2. The high ISO shots appear to have less noise than my 40D(Hard to tell, since they are jpegs), so thiis is a huge improvement in the area of point and shoot cameras.

  3. I’m pretty sure I’m looking at my next compact P&S and underwater camera (with the WP-DC35 housing or maybe an Ikelite if they decide to make one for this camera).

    I’d like to pixel-peep some of the raw shots.

  4. Anybody know why there are two copies of the same portrait? Is there some difference I’m not seeing?

  5. Never mind! One’s at 1600 and one’s at 3200. This is the same sensor as in the G11, right? Look’s like my G10 is up for replacement.

  6. High ISO looks great, but am I the only one super not wowed by the ISO 80 landscape shots? Gosh my old casios do just as well….

  7. To me the ISO 80 shots look like they could greatly benefit from some post-processing (sharpening, contrast) or more aggressive in-camera settings.

  8. Funny, Ed, I was thinking the same thing. I was looking at my 40D RAW 800 and 1250 ISO shots and thinking… hmmm… But perhaps the noise handling with the new DIGIC 4 is very good.

  9. I’d rather have mid-boggling still images than HD video. but I do respect that is a user preference thing, and it’s a little odd when the video options are weaker than a camera not just one generation, but two generations older — the G9 has better recording setups

  10. agreed. I wonder if they’re weakening the lower ISOs in order to get better signal-noise ratio at the higher ISOs?

  11. Well, my SD400 do the same video recording… On my list for a compact, quality is for sure #1, but video as it’S importance. S90 MKII (or whatever) should address that in the future… just hope 10MP will still be there (and not 12MP)

  12. That wouldn’t really make sense (low ISO vs high ISO isn’t really a trade-off situation.) Much more likely is that they toned down the image processing to appeal more to professionals/serious amateurs, who can apply it in post if they want and generally dislike the excessive punch that the many consumer cams apply by default (which of course they do because many people like the high contrast look.)

  13. Well, if it’s a jpeg, they probably SHOULD make it punchy…so as to not mandate post-processing. Just my opinion.

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