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The Canon PowerShot S90 is equipped with some of the best controls on a compact camera for manual and semimanual shooting modes. The S90 has a textbook Canon box-and-circle design. The S90′s finer design points revolve around the excellent wide-angle f2-4.9 lens and its manual and semimanual shooting controls.
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The Fujifilm FinePix F200EXR’s sensor is designed to improve dynamic range and low light performance. The F200EXR is designed in small size without sacrificing it’s comfortable feels and very well constructed. Up front is a lens with specs 28mm wide-angle with a 5x zoom. The 3-inch LCD quality on back is bright and sharp. The Shooting Mode dial is placed on the top right of the LCD.
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The Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS is designed with a 10-megapixel compact, a 2.5-inch LCD and 3x optical zoom. This canon is available in six colors, silver, dark gray, orange, green, pink, and blue. Controls are standard Canon. A switch on the back to set the three shooting modes: Smart Auto, Program/Scene, and Movie. A Play button on the left above a four-way directional pad is centered by a Func Set button. Below that is a Disp button for changing the information shown on the LCD or shutting it off and a Menu button. A shutter release with a zoom ring and power button are on top.
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The Canon PowerShot SX200 IS is a point-and-shoot camera with 12x zoom wide angle lens, HD video recording abilities and the full manual control over shutter speed, aperture, and focus. The Canon’s zoom lens is locked while shooting video. This camera is the perfect choice for more control over exposures.
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The Sony Cyber shot DSC W290 has a wide-angle lens with a 5x zoom, 12-megapixel resolution, some of Sony’s advanced automatic shooting options, HD video capture, and a 3 inch LCD. This DSC W290 is available in silver, black, blue, and bronze. The W290′s face has concentric ridges adding a slight texture that improves grip. It makes traps grease and dirt so our fingerprints are embedded as soon as we touch the camera and they aren’t easily wiped off. The battery/Memory Stick cover is too easily to open.
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The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T900 has 12 megapixel camera with a stabilized 4x internal zoom lens. Its 3.5 inch touch screen LCD display has a resolution four times that of a typical camera LCD. The camera is designed with a full metal body up front and sides, and only the screen left on the back. The power and shutter buttons are placed on top of the camera. A small Playback mode button is placed at the top of the display. On the bottom side there is battery/Memory Stick compartment, which can be used with USB/AV cable and multi-output dock, and a tripod mount.
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The Kodak Z980 has a very flexible lens and plenty of control options to experiment with. The camera comes across as one of the company’s compact cameras gussied up with an extra knob, dial, and buttons. The dial next to mode dial, on the top of camera, can be used for selecting and adjusting shot settings. The zoom toggles is placed a little too far off to the left to make it easy to reach.
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Canon PowerShot SD890 IS is designed with a much curvier design than its predecessor and a gently sloping at the front side. It measures is 3.8 in x 1.1 in x 2.2 in (WxDxH) and 5.5 oz weight. This Canon is equipped with a four way nav plus wheel. The wheel scroll can be used to open Stitch Assist, Color Swap, Color Accent, and Digital Macro. The Function button is placed in the middle and can be used to arrange the white balance, My Colors, metering, compression quality, and image size.
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The 10.1 megapixel Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 has a slim design but without the optical viewfinder. It measures is 4.3 in x 1.1 in x 2.4 in (WxDxH) and 8.1 oz weight. Several buttons on the top of the camera are the power switch, pop up flash, focus point selector button, zoom switch, and mode dial. The dial only have two slots for custom settings, but the camera can store four groups of settings, one set in C1 and other three sets in C2.
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The 10 megapixel Lumix DMC-FX500 features too many modes, shooting abilities, and controls, such as settings for color effects, sharpness, color, and noise reduction. It is designed with metal and plastic body with a 3 inch touch screen LCD, a joystick and buttons. An on/off switch is placed on top next to the shutter release and surrounding ring for setting the 5x optical zoom.
