The Canon PowerShot SD990 IS, the latest flagship ultracompact in Canon's well-known Digital ELPH line of pocket cams, was rolled out just before the holiday buying season got underway in an effort to tempt buyers with a camera that simultaneously offers impressive specs but few frills.
While not exactly minimalist in its approach, the retro styled SD990 definitely doesn't have the outlandish array of options afforded by many of its competitors at the high end of the market. Selling for some over $300, the SD990's makes its sales pitch not with boatloads of soft features, but with one very large statement: 14.7 megapixels. That's right: this camera makes images with higher pixel counts than many DSLRs are offering.
The marketing hype surrounding this kind of resolution builds up some pretty high expectations for the SD990's images. But as we've all learned in the last few years, the connection between megapixels and image quality only extends so far...
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