Canon Powershot S70 Review

Despite a number of the big boys pledging to give up the megapixel marathon in favour of focusing on image quality issues such as noise, lens resolution, chromatic aberration, and dynamic range, here we have what seems like another escalation in the resolution war. Canon has crammed a 7-megapixel sensor into its ultra-compact, Canon Powershot S70, which boasts sensor dimensions of just 1/1.8-inch. Common sense tells you that the laws of physics might just suggest that something’s got to give, especially when you consider that sticking 8 megapixels into the altogether bigger 2/3-inch sensor did little to improve resolution in real terms, and only brought extra problems with noise.

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