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well hey guys it's David with The Verge I'm here with the canon powershot s100 that's the upgrade to the s 90 and the s 95 two pocket cameras that have been out for a couple of years now but are still some of the best point-and-shoot cameras you can buy it's about the same as the S 90 and the S 95 has a little bit better finish and remove some buttons and moved others around but pretty much it's the same it did add a nice little grip bar on the front which makes it easier to hold the camera it's also got a wider lens that goes out to 24 millimeters instead of 28 which makes it easier to get a lot in the photo and it's got a longer zoom it goes from the s 95 s 3.8 X to a 5x zoom so you can get wider and closer I'd also has a GPS which is cool you can geotag your photos and then in an app like iPhoto or Picasa actually see a map of where you were when you shot all of your photos and there's a dedicated video button so any mode you're in or any menu wherever you are you just hit one button and you can start recording video you can shoot at 1080p but you can only shoot it at 24 frames per second the s100 can now do 720p at 30 frames per second the cameras also just much faster it has a new processor so everything it does is just a little bit faster whether you're flipping through photos or taking a bunch of the time they just handles everything quicker generally though it's pretty much the same camera it's got that same great ring around the front that you can use to change aperture or zoom in and out it's got the same flash which looks kind of cheap and small but it's actually really bright and works pretty well it has a lot of manual controls there's dials and modes and buttons everywhere which is great for a pocket camera and is really rare I'd also like the S 95 in the S 90 it just takes really good pictures whether you're in low light or a great light it doesn't matter it has a pretty big sensor in it as an F 2.0 lens which works really really well to take good pictures especially when you're not in great lighting Canon also swapped out the s 95 sensor for one with 12.1 megapixels instead of 10 but unfortunately the trade-off there is it doesn't do quite as well in low light it still does well but not quite as well as yes 95 which is the best point in shoot camera we've used in bad lighting it also tends to over saturate colors and photos so sky blue looks a little bluer than it actually should overall the s100 is a really great camera but unfortunately the s 95 still takes slightly better pictures the s 100 has a longer zoom it has GPS it has better video since it shoots 1080p but for pure still images the s 95 is still the best point-and-shoot we've ever seen and you can find it for a little bit cheaper it's 399 right now on sale but that's likely to go down now that the for 29s 100s on the work