Itching to upgrade your point-and-shoot? According to the witty and savvy David Pogue, the best camera out there is the Canon PowerShot S95. Personally, I believe him. He’s that good.
Pogue sings his praise for the S95 in a great blog post today that takes the form of a love letter to the camera itself. He brilliantly rounds out his review of the S95 with 20 excellent sample shots — with titles like, “Whoa. Handheld, Night, Moving Plane. Nice.” Nice indeed.
What Pogue loves most about the S95 is it’s big sensor and a megapixel count that is not unnecessarily over the top. As Pague swoons to the S95:
But above all, I love your enormous sensor. It’s 0.59 inches diagonally—88 percent more area than most pocket cameras’ sensors. And I love that you have an f/2.0 lens, a rarity among pocket cameras, meaning that you let in a lot more light.
And all of this means that you, little S95, can take amazing, sharp pictures in low light without the flash. Your designers have shrewdly dropped the ludicrous quest for more megapixels—you have 10 megapixels, just right—in favor of something that really matters, like better photos.
The Ludicrous Quest
Pogue first came to my attention at PhotoPlus in New York in 2007. He gave the keynote speech in which he shared his ideas about what he calls the “megapixel myth.” The gist of his informative talk was that no consumer needs a camera that captures more than 6 megapixels of data. Pogue explains why in a New York Times article and then a follow-up blog post on the megapixel myth.
Given Pogue’s history of trying to calm people down about over-rated megapixels, it’s easy to see why his particularly in love with the S95.
