"If you're not a current Hasselblad owner (and you're not)"
Actually I have an H3DII-39 MS sitting right next to me. And I think there's a 503CX sitting in a drawer somewhere around the studio.

These cameras are amazing in the studio or when working on a tripod. To use the Multi-Shot feature you must be on a tripod, tethered to a computer, and the subject must not move between the shots (living things won't work.) Without using multi-shot it's still a great 50MP camera that you can use with a CF card. Just keep in mind while you're drooling that it's not the camera to use in a dimly lit bar. This camera is best for work in a studio, architecture, or landscape work.

@Theorof
Hasselblad did away with micro-step (16 shot) a few years ago. The older Imacon backs do it, but none of the newer ones do. Just to expand on what you said: This camera produces a 50MP files, a 16-bit/channel TIFF file from this camera is 300MB. The file size is the same in either Single-Shot or Multi-Shot mode, just using multi-shot when you zoom in to 100% the images are roughly 2 to 3 times sharper than in single shot (or nearly all other cameras for that matter) as the camera captured red, green, and blue information at every pixel location and didn't have to interpolate the data, which makes most digital cameras have slightly softer images as the image processing is making up data.

Finally like all Medium Format digitals, the sensor does not have an Anti-Aliasing filter. Pretty much every 35mm sized DSLR and P&S camera has an anti-aliasing filter that intentionally blurs the image before it hits the sensor, the reason for this is if you were to photograph a high-frequency texture such as a mesh or screen the lines could get jagged or worse they'd get a moiré pattern. With the higher MP sensor it's less of an issue, and by using multi-shot it eliminates most potential for moiré without blurring the image.

@Nick Nelson This is a studio, landscape, or architectural camera where you either have controlled lighting or will be on a tripod. Futhermore to use the multishot feature, you need to be on a tripod, tethered to a computer, and your subject cannot be moving (you can also use it untethered in single shot mode with a CF card like most cameras and still get 50MP images, the multi shot just produces extra sharp 50MP images.) It is not the camera you want for shooting handheld in a dimly lit bar.

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S90 is an LX3 wanna be without a hot shoe or other means of attaching a much needed viewfinder. Seriously. Canon could have gone about the "Ok the LX3 is selling so well Panasonic can't keep it stocked almost a year after it's release, we have to get in on it" mode one of two ways... 1) Take a look and see what the biggest complaints with the LX3 are and should be fixed, see what features people love of the LX3 and make an amazing camera or 2) make a quick checklist off of what looks good from a marketing standpoint of the LX3 and quickly make that. Oh well, they made it a little longer focal length lens that's about it.

Ok, one of the big problems the people who actually like the LX-3 is the lack of a viewfinder, but you can at least buy an external viewfinder and mount it on the hot shoe. No hot shoe on the S90, no viewfinder. Turning a ring around a lens is a great means of control if you have the camera pressed to your face, or at waist level (like focusing or zooming when using an SLR) the human wrist doesn't like it so much when you hold a camera a foot and a half out to look at the back of the screen and try rotating around the lens. There is absolutely no excuse for this camera not to have 720p or better video. I don't use my LX3 for much video but when I do it's amazing, my only complaint is I wish it did H.264 compression, but I'd rather have 720p with bulky compression rather than Canon's choice to do good compression on crappy resolution video.

The one nice thing about this camera is that because it's a Canon using a Digic chip, hopefully the CHDK firmware hack will work for it and you'll be able to get features like intervalometer and makeshift cable release function. So that's nice, but for $430US it's going to cost almost as much as the G11 or even a low and SLR. This is ridiculous.

If I got one of these I could use it to print labels to stick to itself so I know which type of label is in each slot!

My brother's computer just died, he could really use this.

Sweet

The perfect addition to my LX-3!