I'm not a photographer, but I do own a Canon Powershot A620,

Posted by ogami-itto on 02-10-2008 in Photographers sound off: Canon vs. Nikon

and my better half owns a Nikon Coolpix 5900.
Which is "better"? Well that's a great question. These are both point and shoot cameras for people who still can't seem to figure out what the eff an F stop is (like me).
The Nikon seems to produce better images, or maybe my girlfriend is just a better taker of pictures than I am....
If there is one technical difference that I have noticed, it's that with the Canon set at super duper high quality high res setting, the dpi setting is 180. Now I've read that using Photoshop you can eff-stop around with that and it's not a huge deal, but when the Nikon spits out equally super duperized images at 300dpi by default I would say that makes the Nikon a slightly superior PAS, as opposed to the POS that my Canon is turning out to be...
Perhaps a real photographer could shed some light on this dpi mystery that could possibly keep me from getting to sleep at night. Well I doubt that but you know what I mean...