s30 Flash and Red Eye

[scwaters@aol.com]

Anyone have problems with red eye on their s30? Using mine in auto mode and still seems that many of my subjects get the devil eyes. Especially indoors. Thanks for the help.

[paulmog]

are you using the red eye reduction flash mode? make sure that the eye symbol or the crooked arrow with the eye appears in the display window.

[Chazs]

The anti-red-eye setting on my S40 completely removes red eye from one of my sons (brown eyes), but doesn't have any effect on my other son (blue eyes). He always gets red eye, even with my off-camera flash and Olympus OM1. Much of it has to do with the eye color of the individual.

[Inactive member 38]

Actually, it makes sense that it only removes the red-eye in one of your sons and not the other. On the S30, red-eye is reduced by flooding the person's pupils with light from the focus assist lamp (the white light that is on when you half press with red-eye reduction enabled). I've found that it works well, but the subject HAS to look at it (or you have to aim it at them -- hard to do if you're taking a picture of 2 people). Unfortunately, my subjects rarely do and I fix it in post-processing. If they look into the light, it should clear up any red-eye problems.

I have a friend with blue eyes that also almost always has "devil-eyes" even when I aim it at him though, so I guess it isn't foolproof.