I've been shooting with an S95 for about a month and I'm curious if other S95 owners have noticed a problem with CA. Here are some examples:
This is Cable's Mill in Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains NP, Tennessee.
100% crop, RAW processed straight to JPEG:
 | Byte size: ZERO | Content warning: NOT AN IMAGE |
100% crop after desaturating blue and magenta:
| HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO |
Final processed image:
| HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO |
There's still loads of yellow fringing but the worst is dealt with. That might seem like an unusual case but it's actually very typical of what I'm seeing in the daytime photos I took during a week in Smokies. It shows up on just about any back-lit subject and reeked havoc on landscapes with even the smallest amount of filtered daylight, such as around leaves and branches. Another example...
This is near the summit of Mt Cammerer, Great Smoky Mountains NP, Tennesse.
100% crop, RAW processed straight to JPEG:
| HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO |
100% crop after desaturating blue and magenta:
| HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO |
Final processed image:
| HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO |
In this case desaturating only replaced the problem with a less annoying one....sort of. Instead of bright blue branches I get solid gray ones....
Maybe I'm asking too much of a tiny point-n-shoot lens, but I consider this a fairly obnoxious amount of CA. I bought an S95 after deciding to take a break from lugging my DSLR + lenses all over the place. Having a lightweight camera on my hip has been great for hikes and sight-seeing but I'm afraid this is the price you pay with the S95 and possibly others in the same 'league'.
Feel free to tell me "what did you expect, go back to bigger glass if you don't like it". I was just a bit surprised given the S95 is a more serious PNS. Desaturating has proven effective on this images which are loaded with greens and browns, but what if I'm shooting a red barn or a scene with more blues? That subject matter would be neutered along with the CA using this technique.
