The blooming on the other hand is totally out of control. Looking
at the ceiling lights there is a very large blue ring of bloom.
This is NOT a lens problem, but is a sensor problem.
I have just finished looking through about 2000 G2 pic's I have
taken and I can not find a single example that is this bad and
almost none with blooming at all.
CA can be "fixed" in an editor, there are programs that will adjust
for it. The basic way of doing that is to magnify the blue and red
channel until they match the green. The cause of CA( simplified
version) is the lens having different magnifications for each
color. So, if you apply the opposite magnification on each channel
in an editor you can correct the aberration and salvage the pic.
The problem with blooming - is the effect is local to the bright
light source and so adjustments must be made to each area
independently. Thats a bummer to do - especially in a pic like this
one with many affected areas.
I have looked at many examples of G3 pics now and often they
exhibit blooming, and just as often many people call it CA.
It appears that Canon either:
1. Is using a new sensor with the G3 (not the same one in the G2)
and this sensor has a design or manufacturing flaw.
2. Is using the same sensor as the G2, but has a bad batch - if so,
we should see some new owners of G2 complaining of the same issue -
and so far I have seen none.
3. The circuitry driving the sensor is changed and somehow affects
blooming. (I don't know enough about the electronics involved to
know if this could be possible.)
In any case, I would NOT buy a camera with this defect. I
frequently print pics from my G2 at 8x10 or even 11x17 (and on the
rare occasion 13x19) and this blooming would stand out and distroy
the image.
I would suggest trying a few G3s at stores and see if you can find
one that does not exhibit this. It could be a few bad apples in the
startup of the production - or it could be a new sensor design with
a serious flaw. We want know for sure until they start shipping in
volume.
Frank
hi.. i'm newly registered to this forum... However, I visit the
site very often... and I just registered to let you see some more
sample images i found online...
unfortunately many of them show CA or blooming...not sure...
http://www.senners.de/g3.htm
especially this one shows the same halos as the church pic in
steves review...(was it steves...i think so)
I really wanted to buy this cam... however now i'm seriously in
trouble...no peace of mind anymore ...
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I plan on living forever - so far so good!
