neilcrichton
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I've owned this camera for three years. It was my retirement gift to myself. I use it for mostly pix of my grandkids, and for landscape photos. I previously used a Nikon D200, so it was very easy to use. Must say I prefer Nikon's menus, though. The S5 is built like a Mac Truck, just like the D200. Works perfectly with all my Nikon lenses and gadgets. In terms of features, it includes some which don't interest me, such as film emulation. Image quality is good to excellent, softer than Nikon, however I've learned to get around this by shooting RAW and doing my own sharpening in Photoshop. As a result, I've gotten excellent poster sized prints, and I'm not at all concerned about the 6 or 12 MP controversy. For use as a portrait camera, it is the best in the business, wonderful colour and perfect skin rendition. Its dynamic range capabilities was way ahead of the competition, although they're now catching up. Easy of use – except for having to dig into the menus too often, it's very easy to use. Recently, for the first time, I had to crank up the the ISO to 3200 and was pleasantly surprised at the noise control and clarity of the images. Since I not longer do photojournalism, I'm not concerned about the 2 1/2 frame per second limit, but I wouldn't recommend this camera for that purpose. The cost of this camera was a lot higher than its near twin D200, but I haven't regretted it. A fine camera for my needs.
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