A few weeks ago, I blogged about my new Canon G11 and how ridiculously feature-packed this non-SLR digital camera was. My friend @ed_dale on Twitter suggested that the Canon S90 was a better-buy due to its more slimmer size while having similar optics.

I personally prefer the Canon G11 due to the physical dials for ISO and exposure – it’s faster and easier to access than via an app menu on the S90.
Canon S90 Key Features

• Lens Control Ring
• 10 million pixels sensor
• RAW shooting
• Fast f/2.0-4.9 maximum aperture range
• Lens covering the classic 28-105mm range
• Dual Anti-Noise System (high sensitivity sensor and Digic 4 noise reduction)
• 3.0 inch PureColor II LCD
• Optical Image Stabilization
• Smarter Scene Detection
• Low Light mode
• DIGIC 4 image processor
• HD output

Anyway, here’s a YouTube video by Which? that shows both cameras up close and personal:

If you’re looking for a Christmas digital camera gift, I would recommend either of these two.

From watching this video, which one do you like better? (please comment below)

Via YouTube

Around 2 weeks ago, I blogged about the superb time we had at the Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blog Awards 2009 where we were awarded Best Geek Blog. To this very day, I think I am still recovering from the hardcore partying we did! One thing that I forgot to mention is what accompanied the beautiful glass Nuffnang Award was an equally lovely Canon G11 Digital Camera.

The funny thing was, I just bought a Canon G10 camera for my wife only 3 weeks earlier! All good though – I sold the G10 for half the price to a now very happy friend

Thank You Canon for Your Generosity Then And In The Future

I would like to say right here, thank you very much to Canon (esp. Canon Singapore) for generously sponsoring the Nuffnang event and showering us with gifts like these! Here’s to the hope that Canon Australia will give us bloggers down under more attention like this.

Hint: I would love either a Canon 50mm F1.2 or a Canon 70-200mm F2.8 (to replace my stolen one) or Canon 16-35mm F2.8 pretty please! * puppy dog eyes *

Ok enough grovelling, seriously, the Canon G11 is easily amongst the top 3 in its range (#1 in my opinion). My favourite features are its quick start up time, flash-shoe expandability, advanced optics, swivel out 2.8″ screen, lightness, quick access to exposure and ISO settings and its rugged build. I owned a Canon G3 for many years so this was a nice upgrade from that beaut camera.

I strongly recommend this camera for people who have around a US$500 or so budget.

Enough text, here’s quick Canon G11 Unboxing Video that I made 2 nights ago:

Note: Just realised I didn’t save in HD Anyway hope it’s helpful!