Canon S5 is photo - check it out!

[gng]

Hi everyone,
I just got this Canon S5 and went to the beach in San Diego on Christmas Day and snapped this photo.

Setting: BEACH
1/400 at f3.5
ISO 80
Auto White Balance
Shot at around 10X zoom with Image Stabalization on

Not bad! I was pretty impressed to just snap a photo when this dog stood on the rock (for about half a second!) and have it turn out so nice. I welcome any comments. I did no Photoshopping or cropping - just dropped resolution for this post.

Gary

[iamaelephant]

Wow that's really sharp for straight out of the camera. Nice shot :) The IS must be fairly good on those S5s.

[Nickcanada]

1/400 is much faster then half a second (half a second would be 1/2, or did you mean the dog only stood there for half a second?) anyway, that is a fantastic shot!


I'd be excited too!

[gng]

1/400 is much faster then half a second (half a second would be 1/2, or did you mean the dog only stood there for half a second?) anyway, that is a fantastic shot!


I'd be excited too!

The dog basically jumped on the rock, looked around, I snapped the pic, then he was off running in the water again.

Anyway, thanks for the nice words.

[gng]

Here's another shot, this one of my daughter. It was shot indoors using the slow sync setting so that there is a mix of available light and flash - but the shutter speeds can be very slow (I didn't keep the setting info for this one but it's usually less than 1/30th of a sec) so the image stabilization kicks in and once again saves the day. I think the in-camera red eye reduction was used as well, which works surprisingly well. Again, no PS or cropping, just another point and shoot to show how darn good this camera is! I believe the ISO was 200.

[JLV]

According to the EXIF it was taken at 1/8 of sec. F3.5 ISO 250.

[RhesEbag]

That shot of the dog is a great example of not needing a DSLR to get good quality pictures. Well done!

[SpecialK]

That shot of the dog is a great example of not needing a DSLR to get good quality pictures. Well done!

True enough, but a DSLR would allow a blurred foreground/background that is hard to get with compacts.

[gng]

According to the EXIF it was taken at 1/8 of sec. F3.5 ISO 250.

How did you figure that out? I'm a newbie at this.

[SpecialK]

According to the EXIF it was taken at 1/8 of sec. F3.5 ISO 250.

Your exif reader or your interpretation of it is off significantly.

That would be several stops overexposed for a daylight shot - more like what you would use in museums.

Shutter was 1/400 according to Panda and gng, which seems normal.

http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/download.htm

[sjseto]

Your exif reader or your interpretation of it is off significantly.

That would be several stops overexposed for a daylight shot - more like what you would use in museums.

Shutter was 1/400 according to Panda and gng, which seems normal.

http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/download.htm

JLV was actually referring to the portrait of the girl, I believe...not the one of the dog.

Anyway, gng, to answer your question about viewing EXIF data, the link that SpecialK provided is for a free program that, when installed on your computer, will easily allow you to view exposure data of photos even if they're not on your hard drive. All you do is right click on the image and choose "View EXIF".

Also, many image editing and image viewing programs are capable of displaying EXIF data of photos that you do have on your computer; you just have to know where to find that particular function.

Those are some impressive photos, by the way! I'm glad that you're enjoying your new camera.

Stephanie

[SpecialK]

JLV was actually referring to the portrait of the girl, I believe...not the one of the dog.



Ah, OK.....

[gng]

Your exif reader or your interpretation of it is off significantly.

That would be several stops overexposed for a daylight shot - more like what you would use in museums.

Shutter was 1/400 according to Panda and gng, which seems normal.

http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/download.htm

My guess is he was talking about the indoor shot. But again, how did you figure this out? I got the outdoor settings off the camera itself when you press the detail button, but the beach shot was already deleted off the camera so I thought I had lost that info.

UPDATE - I must have missed your explanation. Thanks for telling me with EXIF is. And thanks everyone for the words of encouragement on the photos. I'm really happy with the Canon S5. It's so easy I almost feel like I'm cheating!

[JLV]

How did you figure that out? I'm a newbie at this.

I saved your your photo to my desktop then I right clicked. Since I have Opanda, one of the options is to read the Exsif.

Opanda can be downloaded free.