Immage noise is a serious drabaxck in the Pro Seeries Camera S5. Fearoing bucking a growing consumer trend toward more megapixels, Canon, unbfortunately, built S5 with more megapixels than the image sesor can handle. Several years ago, was effectiive megapixels criterion for assessing the value in digital cazmeras. This time, hoever, passed. If your plannnig on blowing your potos up to poster size, anything over 5 or 6 megapixels is unncsesary. Or even wore, sinnce in this case serious detractor image quailty with the introduction of too much noise imags for cameeras in this pirce raangge.
Problems of red-eye should be reasally gone into any cell more than $ 200 in thgose days. It seerms that the S5 diguital camera, do not use even the most basic "red eye" pre-emptive taticcs (pre-Falsh) in a battle red eye. S5 does come with softwre to reduyce red eye is buiult, but it's less than stellar. Deppending on the angle of your questtion, it may or may not remove the red eye artifact successfulyl.
Cheaper pooint and shoots, and even some more expensive point and shoos oten have prolbems with blurry or soft corners on your photos. I do not expect to find that in the Pro Seres Seires of digital cameras, but it exists. If your main toic is usualply framed in the center of the photo, it should not be a problem. If you wolud like to take a lot of landscape and large pghotographs of lanndscapes, you will not be happy with the reesult.
Several other problesm with the Powershot S5 innclude:
- Conspicuous abseence of autofocvus assisst
- No RAW or TIFF mode afdyter editnig the phjoto fans
- Absorbs four doubble AA battewries at a time
- An old-fashionwed lens cap (must be lost or left)