| As a startup amateur photographer, I have owned a | | | | start to kick in. For example, you will get a noisy picture |
| lot of point and shoot cameras during the last few | | | | at an ISO of as little as 250 if you go above 10MP. |
| months. I finally settled on this PowerShot SD990IS | | | | The colors produced are great. Pictures look natural, |
| model, and it seems the best one I have seen so far. | | | | almost "too real". Most Canon models I played with will |
| Face detection is a feature that everybody is thrilled | | | | get too vivid colors that sometimes require post |
| about in any camera. Add a self timer to this feature | | | | processing. And I don't know about you, but I take |
| and you've got a feature every point and shoot | | | | pictures at picnics for fun, to share memories with my |
| camera owner must have used at least once. And, | | | | friends, I don't want to work on each of the 300 shots I |
| indeed, face detection works great with this 990, | | | | take in one afternoon only to adjust the color balance. |
| perhaps even better than with any other camera I've | | | | What do you think? |
| seen, as long as I shoot indoors. However, if I want to | | | | To wrap it up, this Canon is a great model, it comes |
| take a group shot outside, and the sun is shining | | | | with a set of features that are quite nice and useful |
| brightly, problems start to pop in: faces get improperly | | | | when they work as they should. The huge amount of |
| lit, colors get distorted, and other dreadful effects. Also, | | | | megapixels is outrageous, simply because I wasn't able |
| from time to time only one face is detected out of the | | | | to take one decent shot at maximum resolution. I |
| whole group. So I have to either take the shot like it is, | | | | would personally consider this is a marketing hype, to |
| or move everyone to another location, like under a | | | | boost sales: there are still people who consider that the |
| tree. Pretty annoying, isn't it? | | | | more MP's a camera has, the better it is and also the |
| The image sensor can take up to a whopping 14.7 | | | | more money it's worth. This is obviously not true, and |
| megapixels. However, you aren't likely to be using | | | | Canon PowerShot SD990IS is here to support this. |
| anything above 10, since, at this resolution, problems | | | | |