Not to be outdone by today?s announcements from Nikon, Canon also has a few new cameras out, and one of them is an update to a Wired.com favorite, the S90. The new model is called the S95, and is little more than an incremental upgrade to its low-light-shooting predecessor.
Thankfully, the S95 has kept all that was good about the S90. It has the same large-ish sensor, the same sharp, 3-inch (and 461,000-dot) LCD screen, the same ?2.0-4.9 28-105mm (equivalent) lens and the same control-wheel surrounding that lens.
The biggest new feature is 720p high-def video, up from the rather poor 640 x 480 resolution of old. That video is recorded at 24-fps in H.264 MOV format. It also gains ?Hybrid IS?, an image stabilization system that works in more directions, and you can now pop in a high-capacity SDXC memory-card.
Apart from a few stylistic tweaks, that?s about it. If you, like many Wired staffers, already bought the S90 then you have no reason to upgrade. It?ll still take great shots, and still uses the big sensor found in the high-end G11. If you are in the market for a pocketable $400 compact, you should check this one out.
S95 press release [Canon]
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