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Comment on Canon PowerShot S90 Review by Matt Hunt

Matt Hunt — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:54:21 +0000

Hi,

I checked out your review of the S90 on YouTube, good stuff, very comprehensive and well thought out. I am currently toying with the idea of purchasing the S90 and I was wondering what your thoughts are on the build quality of the S90 are having owned it for a time now. The top and bottom panels appear to be plastic, how are they and the camera overall holding up to regular usage?

Regards,

Matt,

Helsinki.

Comment on Canon PowerShot S90 Review by admin

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:29:28 +0000

For my needs it is good enough but it does not have a fast continuous frame shooting (I think it is only .9 fps which is pretty slow).

The wide aperture works towards your advantage but I wouldn’t recommend it for sports or nature photography. For situations where you are shooting action, especially far away from you, you need to invest in a good DSLR which has a high frame rate, and a good telephoto lens with a wide aperture (f2.8 is usually the best at 200-300mm but very expensive).

Comment on Buffalo, NY by admin

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:24:49 +0000

Yes I use Lightroom2 to process all of my pictures, even with the most advance/expensive camera you will want to use a image processing software to improve your pictures. I would recommend Lightroom because it is easy to use and batch process works great (saving you time editing multiple similar pictures). I’d also recommend Google’s Picassa if you don’t want to pay the money to buy Lightroom. Photoshop can do everything that Lightroom can (and much more) but the problem is that it can do so much that it often can hinder you from taking the time needed to edit your photos.

About photoprocessing… In the film camera days photographers would spend hours in the darkroom to make their pictures look their best, these days the computer has replaced the darkroom and all those chemicals. The point is that taking the picture is only half of making a good picture, the other part is the time you spend to edit it (cropping, correcting distortion, white-balance, saturation, etc). Of course it is important to take a good picture in the first place but keep in mind that this only reduces the time you need to spend later (it never completely gets rid of the editing time) – you still need to edit photos to make them look the best. A picture that is shot well to begin with will reduce the time you need to take to make it look it’s best, but it will never completely eliminate the time you will spend in image editing.

Comment on Buffalo, NY by hidayah

hidayah — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:12:49 +0000

hye there.. just want to ask you, your image of s90 is quite clear and bright, by any chance did you do some editing on it?

or you use any specs of s90?

Comment on Canon PowerShot S90 Review by HT

HT — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:36:55 +0000

Hi,

I have a question for you: how is the s90 when taking fast action photos? I don’t think it has a burst mode right? Nice review by the way.

Thanks,
HT.

Comment on Canon PowerShot S90 Review by Karen

Karen — Sun, 30 May 2010 05:05:14 +0000

Great reviews for visual learners like me, thanks! I read about a very nice custom made grip you can get for this model and plan to buy one soon: http://www.kleptography.com/rf/#camera_s90

Comment on Canon PowerShot S90 Review by win

win — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:20:51 +0000

Hey great job there! really admire your work!
Though i know nothing about photography , i just ordered my s90.
Hope i can learn something from you:)

Comment on Canon PowerShot S90 Review by admin

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:08:07 +0000

First, thanks for the comments and taking the time to post them on my site…

A lot of people ask me about other camera’s or other options and my honest answer is always that I can only recommend what I own and have tried myself – it would be dishonest for me to tell you what to buy when I have not tried the competing products that are out there. Thus if you are looking for more info on the S90 or my pictures I can totally help you out.

In terms of comparing cameras I recommend checking out the following sites to get all the details of the other camera’s you are considering.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/
http://www.cameralabs.com/
http://www.dpreview.com/

One quick thing I can say is that the SX 210 has a smaller aperture at max than the S90. The S90 has a f2.0 aperture at it’s widest, the SX 210 has only a f3.1. If you don’t know what that means I recommend doing some research on the sites I mentioned above. In a nutshell the S90 is much better for low-light photography and that’s pretty important to me.

Comment on Canon PowerShot S90 Review by ELC

ELC — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:11:31 +0000

This is my first time I have visited this site. I found a lot of interesting stuff in your blog. From the tons of comments on your posts, I guess I am not the only one! keep up the good work.

Comment on Canon PowerShot S90 Review by Jamil

Jamil — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:28:56 +0000

Hi There,

Great Reviews … I like quality Pictures and am looking forward to become a prof or 1/2 at least :p.

I think u r the person who would help me in my Camera Choice …
I so so so badly want the Canon SX210 IS … Now that i saw ur review about the s90; am a bit confused …

PLEASEEEE HEEEEEEEEEEEELP …