Thursday, December 31, 2009

Canon PowerShot S90 vs. SD780

Canon SD780 IS hand held shot in low light with ISO800 - 1/8 sec - F3.2

Canon S90 IS hand held shot in low light with ISO800 - 1/25 sec - F2.0


Canon Powershot handheld digital cameras are legendary. I have owned many cameras and the image quality from a Canon Powershot is fantastic. This holiday season my Digital Elph SD850 IS was dropped and the "lens error" would be $100 to fix. Instead we just went to Mikes Camera in Boulder, CO and bought a new SD780 IS for me and a S90 IS for my dad. The cameras are both beautiful all black with large LCD displays. They are not competitors in the marketplace as the S90 is more expensive.

The bottom line:
-S90 doesnt have HD video mode and the SD780 does have HD video
-S90 takes excellent pictures in low light, the SD780 does not.
-S90 will bulge any pocket you have, the SD780 is tiny and sleek.
-S90 has many features that the SD780 does not, but for "joe point and shoot" user it may not matter!

SD780 IS

SD90 IS

1 comment:

r4i software said...

The 2 simple function wheels that default intelligently, but which can still be changed, are the best thought out user interface of any camera I have ever used.
Going back down to 10 MP shows that Canon understands real photographer's needs