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canon s90 manual white balanceIt's a rotating, programmableI'm covering just what's important for making pictures, not every possible crazy setting. Other countries may get the corded CB-2LYE, which is far less convenient. Our shot-to-shot settings are made with control knobs below, not in menus. If I've forgotten if I use a setting at its default, I list it here again just to be sure not to forget it. This programs ALL my settings to recall themselves when I select the C position on the top dial. This skips the stupid Canon ad every time I turn on the S90. We set the big front ring to control exposure above. To get this: In FINE, images look the same as NORMAL, but use twice the file size. Unless you're using DxO or Canon's software, other software like Adobe Camera Raw will give you highly distorted images from RAW files made at the wide end of the zoom. Brilliant! Hold it again to revert to normal brightness. It's great people like you who allow me to keep adding to this site full-time. Thanks. It costs you nothing and is a huge help. These places have the best prices and service, which is why I've used them since before this website existed. I recommend them all personally. I find it much easier to let you read this first and pay on your own, than trying to ask for payment first. Canon S90 shooter Custom is good for tricky conditions (I usually use it in the forest under trees). If not sure (like when shooting sunsets) use RAW. Custom is good for tricky conditions (I usually use it in the forest under trees). If not sure (like when shooting sunsets) use RAW. Switching to Tungsten WB fixes this, but I sure wish auto would just detect it right in the first place. I still shoot in auto, but always with RAW so I can easily adjust the white balance later. I've tried a bunch of different stuff, but that's the best I've been able to come up with -Maybe I'm just not good at it, but I usually spend a bunch of time screwing around and end up applying something different on my computer anyways. 4.http://www.etudequalitystudy.ca/userfiles/crc-5340-manual.xml
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The rear screen on the s90 is not entirely color accurate, which also makes custom settings very difficult. 5. I've tried evaluative - that's also difficult. The problem is - it wants you to point it at something white. So you pull out a white piece of paper - but the white paper doesn't look white under tungsten lighting. It looks slightly yellow. But you're telling the camera that that's white, so you end up with to little yellow in your pictures - rather like the tungsten setting. I know - sometimes I'm complaining the pictures are to yellow, other times that they're not yellow enough. But that's what I've found - again, and again, and again. This is the entire reason I always shoot in RAW - white balance. I still shoot in auto, but always with RAW so I can easily adjust the white balance later. This is the entire reason I always shoot in RAW - white balance. -- hide signature --. Canon S90 shooter As i always shoot RAW its not a big problem as im going to PP anyway but it is nice to have a bit of accuracy when looking back at the images on the LCD, especially when showing to other people. I find Tungsten to be very good, certainly better than on other cameras ive owned in places ive struggled with in the past. I have the button on the back set for custom WB for tricky situation and im amazed how well that works, especially the one click set. I wish my 40D had that.Read our full review to see why it's got the best autofocus system we've ever seen. 717 Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV initial review first impressions Aug 4, 2020 at 06:00 The Olympus OM-D E-M10 IV is the company's entry-level DSLR-shaped mirrorless camera. While it has a higher resolution sensor and new processor, its biggest focus is on selfies. 2258 Sony a7S III initial review Jul 28, 2020 at 14:00 The Sony a7S III is a 12MP full-frame camera primarily designed with video in mind. We take a look beyond the specs to see what it offers to filmmakers.http://rad-con.com/images/news/crc-25r-dose-calibrator-user-manual.xml 1608 Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III review review Jul 27, 2020 at 14:50 The Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III is our favorite Micro Four Thirds camera for stills shooters to date. In this roundup we take a look at four travel tripods and pick our favorite. In our latest buying guide we've selected some cameras that might be a bit older but still offer a lot of bang for the buck. These midrange cameras should have capable autofocus systems, lots of direct controls and the latest sensors offering great image quality. Best cameras for sports and action Aug 11, 2020 at 01:46 What's the best camera for shooting sports and action. Fast continuous shooting, reliable autofocus and great battery life are just three of the most important factors. In this buying guide we've rounded-up several great cameras for shooting sports and action, and recommended the best. Best enthusiast long zoom cameras Jul 16, 2020 at 23:29 Long-zoom compacts fill the gap between pocketable cameras and interchangeable lens models with expensive lenses, offering a great combination of lens reach and portability. Read on to learn about our favorite enthusiast long zoom cameras. More saturated colors are located towards the periphery of the graph. Hue changes as you travel around the center. Thus, hue-accurate, highly saturated colors appear as lines radiating from the center. Some other colors such as bright yellows and cyans were actually undersaturated a small amount. Overall, the Canon S90's images appeared to have natural looking color that wasn't too vivid, but you can always adjust saturation to your liking. Most consumer digitalThis is simply because most people like theirWhere oversaturation is most problematicStill, despite the shifts in red through yellow and cyans, overall hue accuracy was quite good.As can be seen below, the saturation adjustment was pretty effective. It also leaves the image contrast relatively unaffected, which is as it should be. About average positive exposure compensation required. The Incandescent white balance option resulted in a fairly strong reddish cast, while the Manual setting produced the most accurate color overall. The Auto setting wasn't far off the mark, though.Good color as well. There was slight overexposure in the outdoor far-field house shot at the default exposure. Overall color is good though, if slightly reddish, with the Manual white balance setting on the portrait (the Auto and Daylight settings were just a touch too cool). Though overall contrast is high, the shadows hold onto a fair amount of detail. Fortunately, there's a contrast adjustment to help tame the highlights a bit, though it works better at bringing out shadows. We were able to extract a bit more resolution from Adobe Camera Raw 5.6b converted RAW files, about 1,600 lines both horizontally and vertically. Use these numbers to compare with other cameras of similar resolution, or use them to see just what higher resolution can mean in terms of potential detail. Only slight enhancement artifacts are visible on high-contrast subjects such as the crop above left. Edge enhancement creates the illusionHowever, many individual strands remain fairly well defined, so performance here is actually better than average for a compact. Noise-suppressionWe saw quite a bit more detail on the strongly contrasting geometric patterns of our resolution target when we converted images from RAW files using Adobe Camera Raw. In the natural image below, though, processing from RAW brought relatively little improvement in visible detail. Take a look below, to see what we mean: Canon's Digital Photo Professional (version 3.7.1.1) software was able to extract slightly more detail, as was Adobe Camera Raw 5.6 beta, though they both produced more sharpening artifacts than the camera's default settings, and neither resulted in the sort of dramatic improvement we see with some cameras.http://ainma.com/images/canon-s60-manual.pdf For ACR converted RAW files, we found that Canon S90 files required strong but tight sharpening. We used Photoshop to sharpen, with USM of 500 and Radius of 0.3 pixels. Fine detail holds pretty strong up to ISO 200, though. At ISO 400, noise is still reasonable and a lot of fine detail remains intact, but additional smudging is evident. Noise grain isn't really more apparent as you move to ISO 800, but stronger noise reduction results in additional detail loss. Yellow and purple blotches (chroma noise) begin to appear in darker tones and hair at ISO 800, and worsen as ISO goes up. At ISOs 1,600 and 3,200, artifacts from noise reduction and increased chroma noise dominate, blurring out most fine detail. On-screen crops like this tell you only part of the story with a camera, though: To see how these images held up when printing at various sizes, read the Output Quality section below. See the crops and graph below. This both increases apparent detail and emphasizes noise. Let's take a look at what happens when we sharpen the S90's images to a roughly equivalent level: At 270 and a 1 pixel radius in Adobe Photoshop, the S90 crop above now shows similar detail compared to the LX3, but with considerably finer-grained image noise. See the Print Quality section below for the details, but we found the Canon S90's high-ISO images straight from the camera very soft. Applying strong, large-radius sharpening to its ISO 1,600 images made for really surprisingly good prints at 8x10 inches, though. On that basis, the Canon S90's printed output significantly edged out the LX3. (It's worth repeating here that it's virtually impossible to judge print quality with any reliability without studying actual prints: Images that look horrible on-screen 1:1 often appear just fine when printed at 8x10 or below. Likewise, other images may look pretty good on-screen, but display glaring flaws in print. As always, we encourage our readers to download our test images (for their own personal use), and print them out themselves, to obtain a true sense of each camera's image quality.) Let's see how detail compares under simulated daylight: The Canon PowerShot S90 has similar noise characteristics to the G11, with just slightly stronger noise reduction. Both have a noticeable noise advantage over the Panasonic LX3 at higher ISOs, but the Panasonic LX3 shows more visible detail in its camera-generated JPEGs. Sharpening the S90's images to overcome the softness of the original camera JPEGs brings its noise levels way up, but the noise is also very fine-grained, so modest-sized prints (8x10 inches at ISO 1,600, 5x7 inches at ISO 3,200) end up looking very nice. The softness of the Canon S90's unaltered JPEG images at ISO 1,600 is quite evident in the leftmost crop. The center crop shows better fine detail than the LX3, yet noise levels are somewhat lower.The shots above were all captured with the LX3's default noise reduction setting. When we tested the LX3, we shot a noise reduction series (showing results from all available settings) at ISO 800; feeling that that was about its limit for reasonable-sized prints. As you can see, noise levels from the S90 are very similar to the G11, albeit slightly lower due to stronger noise reduction. The LX3 has similar noise levels up to ISO 400. At higher ISOs, the LX3 shows much higher noise. The crops above show how the red cloth is rendered at ISO 1600. As you can see, the G11 has left more subtle detail than the S90. Very good low-light performance, capable of getting bright images in near darkness. Despite some noise suppression in the shadow areas, detail is still good in the shadows. The S90's adjustable contrast setting did a good job of decreasing the overall contrast and bringing up the shadows and midtones, without creating any strange color gradations on the face. Be sure to use fill flash in situations like the one shown above; and it's better to shoot in the shade when possible. It did not help much with the blown highlights in the far-field house shot, though shadow detail is better. While you can see the extremes, it's pretty hard to evaluate small differences in contrast on small thumbnails like these, click on any thumbnail to go to the full-size image. The Auto mode did brighten the model's face quite a bit, as well as shadow areas and the background, though exposure is still a tad dim. Still, very good results here. The S90's face detection AF mode did adjust exposure so that the model's face is much brighter than with it Off, but as a result the rest of the scene became a bit too bright overall, losing a lot of detail in the highlights. Still, a handy feature, if you're dealing with strong backlighting, etc. The shot above is designed to mimic the very harsh, contrasty effect of direct noonday sunlight, a very tough challenge for most digital cameras. (You can read details of this test here.) Color balance was pretty good with the Auto white balance setting, just slightly cool. Images were reasonably clean up to ISO 400 at the lowest light levels, but naturally, noise increases along with. In addition to applying high ISO noise reduction by default, the S90 automatically applies dark-frame subtraction for exposures 1.3 seconds or slower. This avoids any jiggling from your finger pressing the shutter button, and can work quite well when you don't have a tripod handy. With its ability to focus in very dim lighting, the S90 should do quite well in such situations.) Cameras performing well at that level shouldMost digital cameras willFor such applications, you may have better luck with a digital SLR camera,For informationSome issues with Flash exposure compensation. Flash coverage was very uneven at wide-angle (not surprising, given the wider-than-average 28mm equivalent focal length), with much more uniform results at full telephoto. In the Indoor test, the Canon S90's flash underexposed our subject at its default setting, and flash exposure compensation seemed to work in reverse in Normal flash mode, with higher values resulting in dimmer results. The brightest results were at 0 EV, but the resulting image was still a bit dim.At telephoto, flash shots were dim already at 6 feet, decreasing in brightness from that point on. In the shots above, the Canon S90 performs as Canon says it will at full wide-angle and telephoto, however it boosted sensitivity by quite a bit to ISO 500 to achieve these results. Our standard test method for flashISO 400 images are soft but usable at 13x19, ISO 800 shots are usable at 11x14, and ISO 3,200 shots are usable at 5x7. ISO 80, 100, and 200 shots are usable if a little soft at 16x20 inches but get quite crisp when printed at 13x19 inches. Even ISO 400 shots are usable at 13x19 but are a tad soft, sharpening up more at 11x14. They come back into usefulness at Letter size (8.5x11). Or, if you sharpen them a bit as I did on the G11 to match the relative oversharpening on the Panasonic LX3, they look great at 11x14. The LX3's high-ISO shots actually look pretty bad on-screen, with quite a bit of noise and very coarse-looking details. Printed, though, they look surprisingly good. What became apparent as we studied images from the two competing cameras was that the LX3's files had a lot of pretty large-radius sharpening applied to them. On-screen, they look really over-sharpened, but printed at 8.5x11 inches, they looked quite good. Applying similar over-sharpening to the Canon S90's images (1.0 pixel radius, 200) produces similar-looking results on-screen, but excellent results on the prints as well, producing great-looking Letter size prints. With no processing, the Canon S90's ISO 1,600 images make slightly soft 8x10-inch prints. Ultimately, there's no substitute for printing a lot of images and examining them closely. For this reason, we now routinely print sample images from the cameras we test on our Canon Pro9000 Mark II studio printer, and on the Canon Pixma MP610 here in the office. (See the Canon Pixma Pro9000 Mark II review for details on that model.) Let your eyes be the ultimate judge! Visit our Comparometer(tm) The proof is in the pictures, so letCanon. The lens comes with a control ring around it allowing control over some exposure settings. In many ways this is a Canon PowerShot G11 in a smaller body and without the longer focal range of the G11. The PowerShot S90 continues the PowerShot S-series tradition with impressive, fully manual features that deliver excellent image quality and user experience, including: It enables users to frame and review images easily thanks to an exceptionally wide viewing angle, 461k dot resolution and great colour rendition. The Control Ring can be used as a quasi-manual zoom offering a closer view of subjects in 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm and 105mm steps. The Control Ring also helps enhance user interaction with the camera by offering fast, accurate scrolling through menus, functions and images. In new Nostalgic Mode the Control Ring can also be used to add an aged effect to the shot, from a subtle faded look to full grainy black and white. A new Low Light mode can help users capture reduced resolution 2.5 Megapixel images in very dim light at ISO speeds of up to ISO 12800 and at a fast 2.4 frames per second. Users will also find it easy to share images captured on the camera with family and friends, thanks to an HDMI mini port, which enables the camera to be connected to a compatible TV using an optional cable. We won't share it with anyone We won't share it with anyone We won't share it with anyone. The DiG!C IV processor runs two, count them, two noise reduction systems as well as face detection and dynamic range compensation. Is it? Or have Canon made a grave mistake and undersold themselves. Canon Powershot S90: Features Before Canon discontinued the S series from the Powershot range, they were big, cumbersome cameras that felt as though they were made out of granite. The S90 is a more modest and delicate reworking of the lost classic and looks quite nice. Gone is the sliding front cover and optical viewfinder. Instead a 3in LCD screen is used as the only source to preview your shot. More modern features have been added such as the ring zoom function that allows you to change settings by twisting the lens bezel on the front. Settings can be assigned to the ring such as ISO, manual focusing, exposure compensation and zoom. Click on the thumbnails to open the larger images. Only the low-light scene mode features on the command dial with all others bundled in the SCN selection to save space. Primarily, I think because the dial is a lot smaller but also because it already looks crowded with the manual exposure controls, custom and scene modes along with the video and auto options. Keeping the higher prosumer functions ensures the camera isn't categorised with the rest of the Powershot range and sits itself firmly between the SX and G series. A modest 10Mp CCD sensor echoes the thoughts of when the G11 was released to gasps that a manufacturer wasn't pandering to the pixel race by actually lowering the count from the previous model. To use the same sensor could be a simple cost cutting exercise by purchasing a larger amount from the outset, but it could also mean (and I expect this to be the official word) that Canon have found the optimum resolution that the sensor can handle before it starts to lose quality. It will also help prevent camera shake by allowing quicker shutter speeds to freeze action. Canon Powershot S90: Handling Although the S90 is missing the bulky feel of the older S series cameras, it certainly doesn't feel cheap or badly made. Despite the compact size, it still has some weight to it and the metal casing is solid to the touch. All the areas of the camera feel well made. The zoom ring is a loud clicky type but feels positive and although the buttons sit flush to the body, they're easy enough to operate. A small command ring is also on the back surrounding the navigation pad and you can use either to get around the menu system. If you have large hands like me, you may find it easier to use the wheel over the small buttons of the pad. It's a lot faster anyway. The command dial on the top is small and firm. If you ask me, it's a bit too firm and so far is the only thing going against a thoroughly enjoyable little camera. On the bottom of the camera is a metal tripod bush which is wonderful. This high use tool is often made of plastic which is subject to faster wear and tear but a metal one will ensure longevity. The enclosed CD installs Zoombrowser EX, Digital Photo Professional and Photostitch onto to your computer. Zoombrowser is a simple browsing system to look at the pitures on your camera and transfer them to your computer. You can also perform some basic editing on the program such as red-eye correction, sharpening, inserting text and adjusting the colour or brightness. As well as Zoombrowser, you also Digital Photo Professional, Canon's Raw converter, organiser and also has an editing system which is more sophisticated than the Zoombrowser program. Another cool program that comes in the bundle is Photostitch. It's an intelligent panormaic stitching program that gets your panoramas glued together in three steps. It's easy to use and intuitive as long as you've taken the images properly. Click on the thumbnails to open the larger images. Exposure The Powershot S90 copes really well in most exposure conditions. In diverse lighting, the camera managed to get detail from shadow areas and prevent too much burn out on the highlights although there was some. It does have a good dynamic range as standard though and even with bright side lighting, there was detail coming through in the shadow areas. Focusing The Canon boasts standard focusing, an ok macro function that can focus in as close as 5cm and manual focusing. This mode will pop up a window in the middle of the monitor that shows an enlarged version of the centre of the frame. This allows you to focus using the wheel on the back of the camera unless you've assigned manual focus to the function ring on the front then it's like using a DSLR. Click on the thumbnails to open the larger images. A proximity level sits to the right. Not bad for a small sensor, so the thoughts on finding the optimum resolution may be true after all. Noise is evident at ISO800 and ISO1600 and by the final stage of ISO3200, coloured blobs of green and purple are more noticeable. However, I expected it to be a lot more aggressive than this and I'm really happy with how the camera has controlled noise. Click on the thumbnails to open the larger images. Detail content and quality begins to peter out at ISO1600. To give the camera credit where it's due, the noise control of the Canon Powershot S90 is great although at ISO3200, purple colour is visible in the mid-tones. Click on the thumbnails to open the larger images. However, brighter colours such as yellow do pretty good too although they're not as warm as I'd like, only brighter. Subtle hues seem to do well, the camera doesn't ignore them and it also handles tricky colours such as purple nicely. Earthy colours such as brown and greens when photographing foliage or landscapes look pretty good. Green is realistic meaning your garden or trips to the park won't suffer and brown is rich and not to dark. Click on the thumbnails to open the larger images. Skin tones are balanced and shooting inside with the flash only suffers because of the amount of light available. This means the ISO has to be ramped up and colour can get messed up with because of that. Dynamic range Canon have fitted the iContrast feature to the S90 which increases the dynamic range of the camera to add more detail to dark areas and cap the highlights. It gives the picture an air of being a HDR shot which it is, but without the use of multiple exposures merged together. Click on the thumbnails to open the larger images. Click on the thumbnails to open the larger images. Where it gets strange is with fluorescent, the other strong light source. I prefer the auto setting to the preset simply because of the slight off colouring of light tones that look a browny green colour. I charged it fully before beginning the test and it lasted me the full length of the test and I took around 300-400 images in total. The camera doesn't use a viewfinder so the screen was in constant use and I had to review all images once I'd taken them. In Raw mode, the camera managed 6 frames in ten seconds but recorded ten frames in just under ten seconds when switched to JPEG. This concurs with the Canon specification that it runs at around 0.9fps (frames-per-second). There's no high speed sprint shooting mode, the continuous shooting on the S90 will keep plodding away until you stop or the card gets full, whichever happens first. At wide-angle there is a slight amount of barrel distortion which only shows on straight lines that run parallel with the edge of the frame. There was only very mild chromatic aberration on high contrast areas showing as a thin purple or green line. Visit the DxOMark website for tests performed on the Canon Powershot S90. It's not here to be slung in a drawer and only taken out for nights out or on holiday. This is a serious picture making device that demands regular contact. It's a lovely little camera although personally I prefer the bulkier build of the previous S series before they ended production the first time round. The price is a decent point to start at for the amount of features available. It'll make a very good back-up camera for the photographer who likes keeping control, shooting in Raw and a good lens but may not always want to take a bulky camera system with them. Canon Powershot S90: Pros Raw recording Function ring on lens Bright lens Good build Great noise control Canon Powershot S90: Cons Very slight barrel distortion Command dial is a bit too tough for its size Would have been the perfect for me. Do we know if the LX3 will be replaced soon? Would have been the perfect for me. Do we know if the LX3 will be replaced soon? I feel it's a camera for someone with small hands as i have large hands and my fingers get everywhere on the front of the camera if you know what i mean. Tony I feel it's a camera for someone with small hands as i have large hands and my fingers get everywhere on the front of the camera if you know what i mean. Tony New to ePHOTOzine? Join Today! By using our service, you agree to our use of cookies. OK Learn more. It's just that if you're expecting the fast performance of a digital SLR, you'll be disappointed. From powered off to first shot is 1.8 seconds and it's the same from shot-to-shot when shooting in high-quality JPEG; shooting raw the time extends to 3.4 seconds. Continuous shooting and saving in JPEG is about 1 frame per second. The S90's shutter lag is likely to be the sticking point for some because it's really no better than an average point-and-shoot: 0.5 second to focus and capture in bright conditions. The good thing is that it's nearly the same in low-light conditions at 0.6 second. However, like most of Canon's PowerShot line, ISO 400 is about the limit before you start seeing softening of fine detail. On the other hand, its photos have minimal noise and its noise suppression isn't heavy to the point of destroying all detail until ISO 3,200. The S90 lives up to Canon's improved low-light performance claims. Its colors are also consistent through to ISO 1,600 so usable photos at small print sizes are possible.There's a small amount of barrel distortion at the camera's widest 28mm-equivalent position. The zoom is short on this camera--3.8x--so there was no reason to expect to find any pincushion distortion and there wasn't any. What was visible was some chromatic aberration that was a below average amount in high-contrast situations where you expect to see it, but it's noticeable in prints of 8x10 inches or larger (especially if you're sensitive to seeing it). Its color quality was excellent for coming from the little compact. Also, exposure and white balance were also generally very good from the S90, though as typical from pocket cameras there was highlight clipping.The S90's photo quality is on par with the best PowerShots, too, which is to say generally excellent. However, the S90s performance makes it best suited for portraits, landscapes, and the like--but not for fast-moving subjects. Let's round up its best gems. Let's round up Amazon's best gems. Let's round up the Disney gems you might have missed. Here are some of the best TV shows Hulu has to offer. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Setting white balance manually When at the depth for your shot, Hardly seems perfectly white to me. The camera adjusts it's settings so that white is true white when photographed. Then point the camera at your subject, and shoot as normal. The result is correct I have seen beautiful shots from the Canon S series using one-click. Perhaps you I'd still recommend a camera with an effective underwater white balance feature but the single click button.