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The Best Pocket Camera I Have Ever Owned
By Mac User
I decided to purchase a new pocket camera to take on a trip to Disney World. I needed low light capabilities for indoor and nighttime pictures without a flash and a wide angle lens. I purchased two cameras and compared them for several days prior to the trip. The two cameras were the Sony WX1/B and the S90 Digital Camera.
Each has its advantages and disadvantages. The Sony is smaller, has better battery life, and does HD video. It has some unique and interesting modes including the rapid 10 shot and slick panoramic modes. The Canon has faster glass (f/2.0), full manual controls, a unique flexible control ring/dial, RAW capability, great build quality/feel and very low noise levels for a pocket camera. Its battery charger requires only two hours.
The downsides of the Sony include a slow included battery charger (6 hours but you can buy a faster charger for $50), cheaper build quality/feel, and really poor auto white balance requiring constant manual tweaking. The contrast and exposure levels on the Sony images were also inconsistent and almost always worse than those on the Canon requiring a trip to Photoshop for corrections.
The Sony also had higher noise levels at all ISO values than the Canon. Lastly, the Sony engineers messed up placement of the flash. At the widest lens angle, the lens actually blocks the flash from illuminating the lower left corner of the image. The downsides of the Canon are it’s larger size (but still pocketable), the lack of HD video, worse battery life (buy a second battery) and its narrower zoom range (28-105 mm equivalent vs.the Sony’s 25-120 mm).
The bottom line was that I was getting a camera mainly for pictures and while I will miss the HD video and some of the Sony’s special modes, the picture quality of the Canon was superior to the Sony. Its low light capabilities were also greater with the faster lens, its own lower resolution high sensitivity mode, and lower noise levels. I sent the Sony back and kept the Canon. I took about 700 pictures and shot about 50 videos with the Canon on my trip and feel that I clearly made the right choice.
While the Sony was good, the Canon was the winner for me. Even in auto mode, the Canon took consistently good pictures. This was important when handing the camera to someone to shoot a picture of me. For me, it was all about the picture quality.
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