Comments on: Canon PowerShot S90 Review

By: Canon S90 Grip by Richard Franiec » random process | charlie 2.0

Canon S90 Grip by Richard Franiec » random process | charlie 2.0 — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:48:18 +0000

[...] photography. My search for a carry-everywhere camera eventually led to the Canon S90, which I reviewed in detail last year. The camera combined a compact form factor with great image quality (for the size, of [...]

By: 77gq

77gq — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:34:42 +0000

Thanks for the review.
Does anyone know if you can shoot with different aspect ratios with the S90? It’s listing only 4:3 and I’m hoping this is not the case.
I much prefer the 3:2 aspect that is more similar to traditional 35mm. The Panasonic LX3 offers this but I really wanted this S90 so I’m really in a quandry.

Would greatly appreciate any information. Thanks.

By: Canon S90 Focal Length Apertures » random process | charlie 2.0

Canon S90 Focal Length Apertures » random process | charlie 2.0 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:42:31 +0000

[...] received a few emails regarding the Canon S90 review I wrote a while ago. I thought I’d publicly address one question in particular. I did a quick [...]

By: Andrew S

Andrew S — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Got my S90! I’m really impressed by indoor shots at ISO400/800, which looks to me to have about the same noise as ISO1600 on my D40 when viewed at screen size.

It seems to work fine with a cheap old SD card (2 GB kingston, unrated). I got 1.0 fps, so the slow speed might be some sensor limitation, though somehow the low-light mode gets around that.

My only complaint so far is that Auto ISO is not configurable and tends to choose a higher ISO than I would prefer and higher than what it would choose on my Canon SD200.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:21:40 +0000

Just got my S90 at Best Buy yesterday. Did some frustrating comparison shooting between the S90, my old G9, and my partner’s G10. Sunny day in the shade using various detailed household objects as subject matter. I feel confident that the S90 gives me marginally better detail as compared to the G9 but, as mentioned by another post, the S90 does seem to overexpose slightly. I will try the 1/3 stop correction as suggested. Should work. For more serious shooting, I use a 5D, Mark 2 but no comparison there. The 90 gives me something a little better than my G9 to use on an upcoming major trip some of which is in dicey surroundings where I don’t want to “flash” the 5D. Can’t really claim that I detect any advantage to either the S90 and the 10G over the other in this very limited “test.”

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:21:21 +0000

Thanks for this review. It seems to be one of the few out there so far, and I appreciate it. How is the camera at fill-in flash (aka slow-synchro)? My earlier Canons were better at it than my newer ones, for some reason. Sometimes nice to take a night shot of a skyline with a person flash-lit in the foreground, if you can pull it off nicely.

By: charlie

charlie — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:57:36 +0000

I think you meant 5cm, but yeah, it’s not great at macro. On the plus side, there’s very little distortion of the image at this focal distance, unlike the G11 images I’ve seen, which you can focus down a lot closer, but ends up with this nearly fisheye effect.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:14:42 +0000

Minimum focus distance is 5mm. Not great. But not a deal breaker for me.