Eurico Melo
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I got the R5 a few days ago to replace my Canon S40 snapshot that I always carry with me. Until now I only used it for landscape and monument photography. It is in general very responsive, and the image quality is quite good for such a small snapshot camera. The shadows are better than those of the camera it replaced, but I would prefer less contrasty pictures. The light measurement is accurate in normal scenes, but I got several underexposed pictures in dull lighting situations.
A couple of tests to the usefulness of high ISO gave the expected good results until ISO 200 and still acceptable at 400 (with some color degradation). Above 400 the R5 should only be used in desperate situations. However in Auto ISO the camera never goes above 200.
It seems that my R5 doesn’t suffer from the noise problem others have found.
Test to the camera shake correction at 200 mm shows that 2 stops are gained with confidence and about 50% success may be expected at 1/25 s.
Problems:
1) Some purple fringing (I can’t precise if at all focal lengths).
2) Croma noise perceptible above ISO 100 (at 100% magnification).
3) I miss the panorama mode of the S40. An alternative would be to lock exposure but I haven’t yet found a way to do it. For me it is the only real drawback of this camera.
4) The skew correction failed every time I tried to use it for architecture. In any case this mode is obtained at the expense of resolution.
A couple of tests to the usefulness of high ISO gave the expected good results until ISO 200 and still acceptable at 400 (with some color degradation). Above 400 the R5 should only be used in desperate situations. However in Auto ISO the camera never goes above 200.
It seems that my R5 doesn’t suffer from the noise problem others have found.
Test to the camera shake correction at 200 mm shows that 2 stops are gained with confidence and about 50% success may be expected at 1/25 s.
Problems:
1) Some purple fringing (I can’t precise if at all focal lengths).
2) Croma noise perceptible above ISO 100 (at 100% magnification).
3) I miss the panorama mode of the S40. An alternative would be to lock exposure but I haven’t yet found a way to do it. For me it is the only real drawback of this camera.
4) The skew correction failed every time I tried to use it for architecture. In any case this mode is obtained at the expense of resolution.