I hope to God that the S90 will be much, much better than even the best SD series camera. For one thing, the SD980 will have almost twice the pixel density of the S90 — 43 MP/cm² pixel density vs. the S90’s 23 MP/cm². That is an utterly huge difference, and the S90 even clocks in a click below the LX3 at 24 MP/cm².

But it’s the SD series lenses that I think are the weakest points. If you can fill the image with a close subject, in good light, you can get some decent results. Anything not filling the image will be soft, anything using any zoom at all will be soft — and so on. I think they are among the least useful lenses on any consumer camera on the market.