S40 Quality

[adameuph]

I recently got an S40 and am pleaed with it, but I can't seem to get the settings right to get really clear pictures.

I picked an S40 because my friend had an S30 and the pictures looked great (he lives in Germany, myself in the US) so I thought to get the extra pixels of the S40.

If you can advise on the settings (RAW v. JPEG) and resolution, I would apprecaite it.

[Gibbs]

Hi'ya

The S40 is a great little camera - be happy with your purchase.

There is a bundle of information to be found in the forum that will answer all your questions on picture quality etc. Do a forum search using the search string 'S40' and you'll find an evening's reading. Another thing you can do is look around the G2 section. The G2 boys don't like to admit this, but apart from a few differences (lens speed, flash sync, swivel LCD ...) the S40 is essentially a compact G2 sharing the same resolution, features and capabilities.

Sorry if I am not answering your question - others have done it better.

Have a good one

[AaroNZ]

From what I understand the RAW mode does no alteration to the image...it is exactly as the CCD has captured it. When using the various jpeg modes the camera is perfoming post capture processing before writing to the cf card i.e. white balance etc.

The guru's seem to prefer RAW, and then demonstrate their prowess by making truly beautiful images using post camera manipulation in Photoshop or similar.

One day I aspire to be that good...oh to be a photgrapher and not a snap shooter :o)


p.s. these are merely things I have read...I am waiting for my camera to be delivered (S45 - essentially the S40 late release for Europe/Asia market - so I concur that you have selected a fantastic camera in the S40)

[delphinus]

Well, the RAW format does allow you to do various post processing algorithm afterwards, just like what aaron said. However I found that the raw image converter supplied by canon is not capable of doing things that they are supposed to be, namely noise reduction and sharpness processing.

I've tried BreezeBrowser program to process the raw images, and able to get lesser noise with the same sharpness level (normally if you increase sharpness, the noise will go up as well) compared to their superfine JPG cousins, but not much.

Anyway, if you to take the best quality images available, use raw, and have it converted with breezebrowser.

Happy trying

Delphin