The Canon S95 has always been one of my favourite point ‘n’ shoot cameras. So when Canon announced the successor to the S95 over the long weekend, the gear head in me couldn’t help jumping up and down with joy. Gone is the piddly CCD sensor and in its place lies a 12.1MP CMOS sensor with the bran new DIGIC 5 image processor. The S100 also has a f/2.0 lens for great low light shooting and depth of field as well as a GPS receiver for embedding metadata. Shooting at a top ISO of 6400, I wonder how well the new sensor/processor handles noise in low light. So has Canon got the new King of the Compacts in the S100? Or are cameras like the Olympus XZ-1 and the LX-5 staying strong? Two more shots of the S100 after the break.

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