dpreview is a UK site.  IXUS / ELPH / S500 review is there.

"Chris B" <chris.brogan@thefreeinternet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 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
> news:106a19ni2utefa2@corp.supernews.com...
> > 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/
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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