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Advice sought on upgrading from Canon S90 and SX10

Started Jan 19, 2015 | Discussions thread
cberry Senior Member • Posts: 1,127
Re: Advice sought on upgrading from Canon S90 and SX10

B1ackhat wrote:

NewMexicoKid wrote:

  • B1ackhat, I appreciate the cautionary note about grey market item warranties--I hadn't thought about that. I think I'd like to stay more in the G7X form factor rather than the G1X Mark II; I will have to think some more about it after your comments since I was hoping to shoot in JPEGs rather than in RAW.

I didn't mean to imply that it was bad, but rather just that it pales in comparison to what I have come to expect from Canon. On bright sunny days, my JPEGs typically look great. On cloudier days, however, I tend to end up with this:

SOOC

Opening the RAW in DxO and simply saving it at the default settings without doing any manual processing produces this:

DxO - Default Processing

That's not really surprising. Have you tried Canon's own DPP? Besides several different contrast curves, you can just take outdoor photos and correct for colour temperature with a simple slider. V4 is very versatile and free to Canon owners.

Normal photoshop curves layer + blended overlay also seriously boosts colour intensity + curves+ screen layer.

I'm sitting between the G7x, G1x ii and G16 right now comparing everything to the very similar to s90 - the G12 (or ex G12 I no longer have).

Here's my breakdown:

G16 - huge lens improvement and some low light improvement. Hot shoe.

G7x - form factor and massive low light boost at the cost of a hot shoe - I can do without this if I carry my dSLR. 2nd battery I'm used to.

G1x-ii makes me want to buy a 100D instead because of the price and lower versatility.

G7x with a hot shoe would win this - even an IR Flash control.

cb

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