Low light performance of Canon 880 vs the low light of Canon 890

I am planning to buy a canon. I am lost between 880 and 890. My deciding point will be the low light performance.

I had gone to an aquarium and I had a Sony, it worked bad.

This time, I find the 890 better over 880.

Tell me sir, can canon 880 do well in meusuems and aquariums and low light areas.

please guide. I am bent on 880.

Steve,

Thanks for the same.

You have answered correctly in technical terms. But have you really experienced the same or tested the same.

Did you give you answer on experience/testings or by specifications.

It will be great of you, if you can give an answer based on some sort of testing that you can do.

Regards
Ulhas

Ulhas, I don't have a SD890 in hand to do any testing side by side unfortunately. I have shot the SD880 and the SD990 extensively and have logged several hundred keepers from each of them. I do know that even the older canon's will do great in good light and high contrasty scenes as I have used them in the past. That is where they will shine even from several years back. The Achilles heal of small cameras is always low light conditions. Each year manufacturers try to see if they can squeeze better performance out of their cameras by upping their performance in low light (their chief criticism area). So when Canon updated to DIGIC IV, it was for the primary purpose of better low light performance. The SD990 actually outperforms the SD880 in low light by a wide margin and it is the one I use and recommend for indoor and low light photos. It as a larger sensor (same size as the G10) and also has flash compensation so you can give just a little flash, or lots of flash to your indoor shots. That's something that the 880 doesn't have and it is really missed in using the flash as it tends to white out subjects at times.

You were asking for a recommendations between the 880 and 890 and with that the newer DIGIC IV will be better than the DIGIC III. But if you are really wanting to do indoor, low light shooting, the SD990 outshines almost every other camera currently out there...except for the little Panasonic Lumix LX3 with a super fast lens and full manual control plus a flash hotshoe. Beyond that you could consider a DSLR which would run circles around any small pocket camera in low light, natural light, and in high ISO settings like Museums and Aquariums.

Hope that helps a little. I shoot a Nikon D50 with a 1.8f lens for low light, and a larger 18-200 zoom for most other situations. But I shoot with the Canon 990 when I don't have my D50 or I don't want to carry around 4 pounds of camera and lens. I'm very happy with the results from the 990 most of the time.

Steve, thanks a lot, one doubt though,,,,,,,,,,,,,,do you mean to say that the LX3 is better than both 880 and 890...........

Can I buy that............does it have better low light and picture quality...............please guide.............

So would it be 880 or LX3.................because 990 is expensive.................

Tell me more abt lx3 and can you please compare lx3 and 880.

please reply

The Lumix LX3 is actually the most expensive. It has features that no other pocket (large pocket) camera has such as an external flash hotshoe, pop-up flash, 2.0f lens (which is very fast and good for low light), shoots in RAW format and has full manual controls over shutter and aperture. It is truly a photographer's camera in many ways. It's zoom is very limited, equiv. in film zoom to about 24 (extremely wide) to 60 (very moderate zoom). So it is really a very niche-type camera for those looking for those features.

If you check prices you'll find that the SD880 and SD990 are about $70 apart, at least from good online dealers. Amazon.com, J&R Music & Computer World are just a couple that I have dealt with and had exceptional service. So if the bottom line is price, you may just need to settle for an SD880. If you can set aside an additional $70 then the SD990is is worth the extra cost, at least in my experience and opinion.

To make things a bit more interesting, Canon is set to release about 4 new camera any day now. They will be 12.1MP, small sensor, have some new tricks like "blink technology" and "shake to advance picture" and all will feature DIGIC IV. Whether they will be better than the SD880 or not is anyone's guess at the moment. Because they will feature the same smaller sensor, I am pretty confident that the still won't be able to compete in image quality with the SD990 with its larger sensor.

You can check out the specs for the newer Canons and compare features by going to the Canon USA website. Under digital cameras you'll be able to compare all the cameras side by side, even the newest ones just about to be released.

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ProductCatIndexAct&fcategoryid=113

hay sir can you help me i wanna bought a canon camera but i have some question pls give me answered
1 kindly advice me which no camera is best
also price is under 120 $ and also bitter large time and also screen is 2.5 inch
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and also picture quality like professional pls

Asif,

The Following are the best cheap cameras according to surveys:

Canon PowerShot A470 {around 130$}, Canon SD1100, Canon powershot E1, Canon PowerShot SD790 IS ELPH,

All the above cameras can be found at around 120-150 Dollars at Various sites like DELL or amazon or even Best buy or sears.