Red-Eye Issues

[Skylark]

Recently purchased a G5, very happy with its performance overall but it has let me down with some serious red-eye issues. A lot of reviews of the G5 have mentioned that the red-eye reduction is less than desired. Most of my red-eye issues have occured in an indoor setting. I first thought that the flash was set too bright, but even turning this down resulted in the same problem. I found that the portrait setting gave a better result, but i like to avoid using presets. Anyone else have these issues with a G series? Any suggestions or is photoshop my only saviour??

[Ballen Photo]

Recently purchased a G5, very happy with its performance overall but it has let me down with some serious red-eye issues. A lot of reviews of the G5 have mentioned that the red-eye reduction is less than desired. Most of my red-eye issues have occured in an indoor setting. I first thought that the flash was set too bright, but even turning this down resulted in the same problem. I found that the portrait setting gave a better result, but i like to avoid using presets. Anyone else have these issues with a G series? Any suggestions or is photoshop my only saviour??

Hi Nathan, Redeye is a problem with just about ALL P&S style cameras using the built in flash. Fortunately, the "G" series cameras have a hotshoe for an external flash. To effectively eliminate Redeye, you want to move the flash higher above the lens than the built in flash allows. Any of the EX series Canon flashes will work nicely. Good luck in your quest, and welcome to the forum.
-Bruce

[xdjoynerx]

red eye can be touched up easily in photoshop.

or, the best solution, dont use the flash.... you can pretty much shoot in any condition, at 400 iso, except for night time areas that arent well lit.

noise can be taken care of in post processing also

[JohnnyE]

Plus, be careful about taking pictures of people who have been drinking. Alcohol has a tendency to dialate the eyes and make them slow to respond to increased light, so red-eye reduction lamps wont do much.

[Skylark]

Thanx everyone for all the tips, and will keep in mind that drunkard eye...

Um another question, does anyone know a link to a quality tute on red-eye removal in photoshop. So far my attampts have been, well crap. Or a program or plug-in worth using, im trying out a program by Vicman called 'red-eye remover', not bad so far, just need to 'register' it. Ive also seen a mac user use iphoto to achieve some nice results, but thats a world im not entering.

[nitewulf]

if you use the built in flash, the eyes will come out red most of the time. so if you must use the built in flash indoors, i'd suggest what others did, remove the red eye on software.
microsoft's picture it actually has a very intuitive and effective red eye removal option, try that if photoshop seems too complicated.

[dfrost]

VicMan Software has a decent Red-Eye Remover:

http://www.vicman.net/redeye/

The software that accompanied my Canon i960 printer also has a red-eye remover for prints (doesn't change the original file), but I can't locate "Easy-Print Plus" on the PC right now, and recall there was some trick to call it up when printing, but can't remember the trick now. Any help?