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I was curious on how the S85 handles a flash in shutter priority mode.

The mission, if you choose to accept it...
  • Set the shutter to 1/1000 and take a picture of something indoors, preferably an object with some white or a white background.
I'm looking to see if the color shows a definite green or blue cast like the S75....

Thanks in advance...
 
TurboTed said:
I was curious on how the S85 handles a flash in shutter priority mode.

The mission, if you choose to accept it...
  • Set the shutter to 1/1000 and take a picture of something
indoors, preferably an object with some white or a white background.

I'm looking to see if the color shows a definite green or blue cast
like the S75....

Thanks in advance...
Click to expand...
A definite blue cast, I'll post ti in a iminute.

Rich
 
Richr said:
TurboTed said:
I was curious on how the S85 handles a flash in shutter priority mode.

The mission, if you choose to accept it...
  • Set the shutter to 1/1000 and take a picture of something
indoors, preferably an object with some white or a white background.

I'm looking to see if the color shows a definite green or blue cast
like the S75....

Thanks in advance...
Click to expand...
A definite blue cast, I'll post ti in a iminute.

Rich
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Here's the pic:

http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=4292465501

Rich
 
Would anyone be so kind as to repeat their experiment after setting the white balance using a white card that is the same color as the white subject and from the same location.

Thanks
Jack
TurboTed said:
I was curious on how the S85 handles a flash in shutter priority mode.

The mission, if you choose to accept it...
  • Set the shutter to 1/1000 and take a picture of something
indoors, preferably an object with some white or a white background.

I'm looking to see if the color shows a definite green or blue cast
like the S75....

Thanks in advance...
Click to expand...
 
Which reminds me, anyone tried IS200/400 (which would be really great according to Phils review)?

lucien
Jack O'Neill said:
Thanks
Jack
TurboTed said:
I was curious on how the S85 handles a flash in shutter priority mode.

The mission, if you choose to accept it...
  • Set the shutter to 1/1000 and take a picture of something
indoors, preferably an object with some white or a white background.

I'm looking to see if the color shows a definite green or blue cast
like the S75....

Thanks in advance...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Thanks for the quick tests. These were exactly the results I was expecting. I'm not so sure it is a problem in the real world. I'm just more curious than anything else as to why these two new cameras do this.
TurboTed said:
I was curious on how the S85 handles a flash in shutter priority mode.

The mission, if you choose to accept it...
  • Set the shutter to 1/1000 and take a picture of something
indoors, preferably an object with some white or a white background.

I'm looking to see if the color shows a definite green or blue cast
like the S75....

Thanks in advance...
Click to expand...
 
Wendell said:
I've also got some S85 test shots using the auto bracket mode set
to + - .7EV. Conditions were hand held, high noon with a washed out
sky.
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292466977
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Wendell,

Thanks for my test and for your bracket mode tests.

Speaking of which, what is up with those? It looks to me that Sony has some explaining to do. I can't tell on most of your shots since they were taken vertically and rotated, losing the EXIF info but your one landscape sample clearly only took what appears to be a +0.7 shot and two 0.0 shots instead of a third -0.7 shot as it should. Looking at the EXIF info it clearly shows that it favors changing the shutter instead of aperture when changing the EV setting in bracket mode. This explains why it couldn't get the darker shot, it had already turned the shutter speed up to 1/1000 and couldn't go any quicker. Does the manual warn about such a situation? A couple of the other samples I downloaded look to have the same problem. Does this mean you can't use the bracket mode in shutter priority or does it just force a change of shutter speed regardless?
 
Thanks very much to test iso400 as well (I think you're about first posting one with this iso setting).

I think it's quite useful. There is somewhat more noise in the dark areas but the object looks much better.
TurboTed said:
TurboTed said:
I was curious on how the S85 handles a flash in shutter priority mode.

The mission, if you choose to accept it...
  • Set the shutter to 1/1000 and take a picture of something
indoors, preferably an object with some white or a white background.

I'm looking to see if the color shows a definite green or blue cast
like the S75....

Thanks in advance...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Now that seems to have worked just fine. It is also a little bit interesting to note that the exposure bias field in the EXIF header does not indicate a change of the EV setting. Instead it is 0. Not that it is wrong, just interesting (at least to me).
Wendell said:
Ted,

I loaded 3 shots into the 1/1000 album. EV bracket mode, shutter
set to 1/500. It shot them at f2.8, f3.5, and f4.5.

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292465427
Click to expand...
 
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