Images of downtown with my new S100

Thought I'd start a new thread highlighting the IQ of my new-to-me S100.

I shoot downtown all the time with my DSLRs. What I'm looking for, in the final images that I've tweaked in Lightroom is: brought up shadows, tamed highlights, true colors, pleasing and interesting compositions (of course, the compositions are all in the eye of the beholder).

I shot jpeg plus raw, mostly on P at the lowest ISO I could get away with (never on Auto ISO). Turned out the S100 wanted to keep the shutter up even at ISO 80 so it was mostly 80 or 100. I did shoot inside a train station, testing from 400 to 3200 and, though pretty darn grainy above 800 (not much NR in Lightroom and none in camera) at least the colors stayed true--which is probably due to the Digic 5 processor (like my 330 HS).

All these are jpegs from raw from LR6.

A typical light and shadow street comp

A tough comp featuring bright sunlight on the floor and various lighting throughout. What surprised me was that, unlike point and shoots of old, the S100 raws actually had some headroom to tame the blown highlights, which were white in the original image but came out pretty sweet with some adjustments

This next one is a wall I shoot when I'm testing lenses. Look at "original size" your own self and you'll see my S100's lens is nice and evenly sharp all over

And finally, the token flower pot. What I noticed was that, without too much tweaking, there were no blownout white areas on the leaves, even though it was shot in bright sunlight.

I have to say I'm pretty pleased with how this little camera performs. I'm going to try to work it into my photography, somehow.