It's by-the-by anyway because there is no Review of the IXUS on this site -
which is what I'm looking for - rather than wading through specs.  Maybe
it's just too early to get a review of this camera so that I can compare?
"Don" <nospam@please.org> wrote in message
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> I suggest that you be very in accepting the dpreview evaluations at face
> value.  They seem to have a policy of using the camera default settings
for
> internal image enhancement rather than playing with them to get the best
> possible results - or at least comparable results from comparative
cameras.
> I can understand that, since that would be a lot of work and requires
> subjective judgement of tradeoffs between, for instance, sharpness and
> noise, but the resulting comparisons are often bizarre.  Different
> manufacturers seem to have much different philosophies on how much
> sharpness, contrast and saturation boost to apply as a default.  This can
> usually be seen by comparing dpreviews' examples at high magnification.
One
> comparison they made two or three years ago between a G2 and a  comparable
> Nikon credited the Nikon with sharper, but noisier, output.  If you blow
up
> the examples you can see pronounced light ghost edges alongside the dark
> edges in the Nikon, and none (or almost none) in the Canon.  That
indicates
> a definite difference in edge sharpening.  There were also noticeable
> differences in saturation and contrast.
>
> I don't mean to knock dpreview.  They do a good job and fill a great need.
> I do wish they would point out the above in their reviews, however.
>
> These effects are why many of us shoot in RAW with the enhancements turned
> off.  We can then choose the "best" (whatever that means) settings in post
> processing.  Of course, that means we have to post process every
> image.......
>
> Don
>
>
> "stewy" <anyone4tennis1@lycis.com> wrote in message
> news:c42pbn$2lp$1@newssv.kcn.ne.jp...
> >
> > "Chris B" <chris.brogan@thefreeinternet.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:c42cvn$2c68ao$1@ID-100935.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > > I was about to buy the Canon Powershot G50 but then the IXUS 500 came
> out
> > > and I cannot decide.
> > >
> > > Any recommendations?  Cannot get much info on the latter at the
moment.
> >
> > Try http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/
> >
> >
>
>