You will fall in love at first sight with the Canon S90, with its minimalistic all black body small enough to fit in the pocket you jeans. This compact camera comes packed full of power.

The S90 is a 10 megapixel compact digital camera, backed by Canon's DIGIC 4 processor, meaning things run a long smoothly, and since 10mp is plenty for a compact it gives you great pictures with hardly any noise.

What makes this camera great is not only what it can do while set in Auto; it's what it lets the photographer do. And from the long list of innovative features the most interesting ones are the various manual settings, giving you a total control and autonomy over what you are shooting so you can turn a simple landscape or portrait into a work of art.

One of the features that sets apart the S90 from the rest, is the front-mounted control ring, which this time is a moving ring from where you can set several functions like: focus, exposure, white balance, and zoom. This control ring also has a button in the top plate of the camera allowing you to have some extra control.

The 3 inch LCD gives you excellent resolution with its 461-dots, and as a result the previews are just incredible, the playback is great also and scrolling through pictures is even more fun with the ridged scroll wheel, all you need at the reach of your fingertips.

Going back to the control ring, you have in the top of the camera a button called ring function, which allows you to experiment with different settings while shooting .

This too applies to the shutter speed selection, many of the compact cameras out there will have you go into a menu first to change it, but with the S90 you can make changes on the spot.

The battery power will give you around 200 shots, which is pretty good. If you want to prolong your battery life you can turn down the brightness of the display screen and even turn it off without shutting off the camera, so you will be ready to jump into action at anytime.

In conclusion, the Canon S90 is excellent to work with; with all the new features like the control ring, and manual controls makes this compact camera a powerful item with an outstanding performance and the wonderful thing is that you won't have to over pay in order to have one.