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I just bought a S85 for 399 but have not yet taken it out of the box. I could not pass up the deal at Best Buys, but I'm not sure I'll keep it.

My question to all the S85 users is this. How accurate is caucasian skin color taken with this camera. I will bee using it for family portrairs and 90% of the printed pic will be 4x6. I do not want to do post processing and I want accurate skin colors in all kinds of natural light. I have not seen many S85 samples of people on this sight, and of those I don't know if they have been tweaked.

I just want to shoot my wife and kids and get accurate skin colors. I've heard about too much red/magenta with this camera. I don't mind the vivid reds in anything other than skin color.

Thanks. If you can steer me to your unprocessed S85 portrait/skin pictures I would appreciate it.
 
Mike:

I also got that sweet deal on the S85 at Best Buy. I haven't had a chance to take too many pics yet, but the ones I have appear to be very true to actual skin tone. If I can figure out how to post a photo, I'll send you an example...
Valerie
MikeMac said:
I just bought a S85 for 399 but have not yet taken it out of the
box. I could not pass up the deal at Best Buys, but I'm not sure
I'll keep it.
My question to all the S85 users is this. How accurate is caucasian
skin color taken with this camera. I will bee using it for family
portrairs and 90% of the printed pic will be 4x6. I do not want to
do post processing and I want accurate skin colors in all kinds of
natural light. I have not seen many S85 samples of people on this
sight, and of those I don't know if they have been tweaked.

I just want to shoot my wife and kids and get accurate skin colors.
I've heard about too much red/magenta with this camera. I don't
mind the vivid reds in anything other than skin color.
Thanks. If you can steer me to your unprocessed S85 portrait/skin
pictures I would appreciate it.
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What you'll need to remember is to set the white balance accordingly. Outdoors, on a sunny day, around noon, the 'outdoor' setting is fine, but anywhere else, DO use the manual white balance set function.

The internal flash can confuse the white balance indoors in mixed lighting situations. I don't know what it is, but on manual, automatic, whatever... it is never right. I use the color temperature controls in PSP quite a lot on indoor shots to fix them.
  • David
MikeMac said:
I just bought a S85 for 399 but have not yet taken it out of the
box. I could not pass up the deal at Best Buys, but I'm not sure
I'll keep it.
My question to all the S85 users is this. How accurate is caucasian
skin color taken with this camera. I will bee using it for family
portrairs and 90% of the printed pic will be 4x6. I do not want to
do post processing and I want accurate skin colors in all kinds of
natural light. I have not seen many S85 samples of people on this
sight, and of those I don't know if they have been tweaked.

I just want to shoot my wife and kids and get accurate skin colors.
I've heard about too much red/magenta with this camera. I don't
mind the vivid reds in anything other than skin color.
Thanks. If you can steer me to your unprocessed S85 portrait/skin
pictures I would appreciate it.
Click to expand...
 
Manual white balance set? how do I use that?
David_S85 said:
The internal flash can confuse the white balance indoors in mixed
lighting situations. I don't know what it is, but on manual,
automatic, whatever... it is never right. I use the color
temperature controls in PSP quite a lot on indoor shots to fix them.
  • David
MikeMac said:
I just bought a S85 for 399 but have not yet taken it out of the
box. I could not pass up the deal at Best Buys, but I'm not sure
I'll keep it.
My question to all the S85 users is this. How accurate is caucasian
skin color taken with this camera. I will bee using it for family
portrairs and 90% of the printed pic will be 4x6. I do not want to
do post processing and I want accurate skin colors in all kinds of
natural light. I have not seen many S85 samples of people on this
sight, and of those I don't know if they have been tweaked.

I just want to shoot my wife and kids and get accurate skin colors.
I've heard about too much red/magenta with this camera. I don't
mind the vivid reds in anything other than skin color.
Thanks. If you can steer me to your unprocessed S85 portrait/skin
pictures I would appreciate it.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
David_S85 said:
The internal flash can confuse the white balance indoors in mixed
lighting situations. I don't know what it is, but on manual,
automatic, whatever... it is never right. I use the color
temperature controls in PSP quite a lot on indoor shots to fix them.
Click to expand...
When using the flash the camera reverts to an undocumented "flash" white balance. Mostly this is okay as long as shutter speeds are high enough to prevent too much illumination from ambient light.

If you let the camera select the shutter speed it may be slow enough to allow enough ambient light to give your pics a red/yellow cast in the case if icandescent lights.

--
Bud
A few photos: http://www.pbase.com/bud_b
Got questons? Look here: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~parr/photography/faq.html
 
Skin tones were the main reason I chose the S75. It gets beautiful skin color. S85 is same camera except pixel count and should get the same skin tones. Check out my portrait gallery:

http://www.pbase.com/lisafx/portraits&hide_comments=Y
MikeMac said:
I just bought a S85 for 399 but have not yet taken it out of the
box. I could not pass up the deal at Best Buys, but I'm not sure
I'll keep it.
My question to all the S85 users is this. How accurate is caucasian
skin color taken with this camera. I will bee using it for family
portrairs and 90% of the printed pic will be 4x6. I do not want to
do post processing and I want accurate skin colors in all kinds of
natural light. I have not seen many S85 samples of people on this
sight, and of those I don't know if they have been tweaked.

I just want to shoot my wife and kids and get accurate skin colors.
I've heard about too much red/magenta with this camera. I don't
mind the vivid reds in anything other than skin color.
Thanks. If you can steer me to your unprocessed S85 portrait/skin
pictures I would appreciate it.
Click to expand...
--
LisaFX
http://www.pbase.com/lisafx
 
Bud/B said:
David_S85 said:
The internal flash can confuse the white balance indoors in mixed
lighting situations. I don't know what it is, but on manual,
automatic, whatever... it is never right. I use the color
temperature controls in PSP quite a lot on indoor shots to fix them.
Click to expand...
When using the flash the camera reverts to an undocumented "flash"
white balance. Mostly this is okay as long as shutter speeds are
high enough to prevent too much illumination from ambient light.

If you let the camera select the shutter speed it may be slow
enough to allow enough ambient light to give your pics a red/yellow
cast in the case if icandescent lights.
Click to expand...
This is great advice. I have had that problem and didn't know what was causing it! Thanks!!
 
lisafx said:
Skin tones were the main reason I chose the S75. It gets beautiful
skin color. S85 is same camera except pixel count and should get
the same skin tones. Check out my portrait gallery:

http://www.pbase.com/lisafx/portraits&hide_comments=Y
Click to expand...
Forgot to mention...I do occassionally have trouble with people who have dark tans. They can appear too yellow if shot indoors.

Other than that, the manual white balance others have mentioned is important. Once you find the "one push" or manual setting in your menu, carry around a white index card to point the camera at to set the white balance.
 
teodoro musacchio said:
Yes there is the on board flash. Wht's the F1000?
i must add the I am a totally beginner with photography.
regards
teo
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Sony makes an external flash called the HVL-F1000. It can be found for less than $100 if you look around. It plugs into the acc port on the camera and clamps into the bracket on top of the camera.

Your best results with that flash will be from bouncing the flash off a white ceiling. The head of the flash pivots from straight ahead to straight up, with stops set at 45, 60 and 75 degrees.

Also, I have had good luck shooting in Shutter priority mode of 1/100s for indoor shots
--
Johnny B.
http://www.pbase.com/frsty50
 
lisafx said:
lisafx said:
Skin tones were the main reason I chose the S75. It gets beautiful
skin color. S85 is same camera except pixel count and should get
the same skin tones. Check out my portrait gallery:

http://www.pbase.com/lisafx/portraits&hide_comments=Y
Click to expand...
Forgot to mention...I do occassionally have trouble with people who
have dark tans. They can appear too yellow if shot indoors.

Other than that, the manual white balance others have mentioned is
important. Once you find the "one push" or manual setting in your
menu, carry around a white index card to point the camera at to set
the white balance.
Click to expand...
Lisafx,

I appreciate seeing all your pictures in the link you left me. Were all of them shot with Sony S75?

Was there any post processing on them for color correction? Why do some of the pictures I see posted form other people have the exif data with the picture. I find that very helpful sometimes?
 
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