Canon S90 lens quality

AdamT wrote:

the lens in my S90 is as sharp as any S100 or P7000 series but then I shoot IN RAW and avoid using DPP to convert the images like the plague .

Sample variation in the S90 and 95 lens is terrible though and many are decentered (blurred out down one side) . mine is fine and I've no interest whatsoever in getting an S100 - the XZ1 is colossal in comparison - like comparing a 1DS-III to a 5D

Interesting about the sample variation which I not had heard much of with the S90 or S95. I thought it just was normal poor performance wide-open. Especially since Canon have struggled with with wide-angle zooms in the past as with the SD870
Or maybe it was just their copy of the SD870 which was bad unusually bad.

http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/reviewsamples/photos/96483/sample-19?inalbum=canon-sd870-is-review-samples

I knew that the S100 not was good regarding SV though. Especially since Dpreview had to go through a small bunch of S100s to find a good copy.

I thought that SV was more common among Superzooms which should be sensible more complicated designs than bright standard zoom-lenses.

I think that Ricoh and Fujifilm, though not in a specific order, seems to share the price for bad SV with their small super-zoom compacts.

I've followed far from all but some of the SX230 threads and not read anything about SV there.

Despite that I'm slightly tempted to try and find a good copy of the Fuji 750 or 770 to use mostly for HD videos at a Hard Rock Festival or concert which lasts four days this summer. I'm going to be there during three of these days.

Hopefully they've sorted out the AF hunting issue from some previous model by now and that one even can refocus by halfpress the shutter-release button.

I'm not much interested in Ricoh CX actually. Mainly because of that aging zoom which hopefully might be replaced with CX7 or CX8. But CX7 probably won't be here before the Festival which is in June.