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The rather extreme dynamic range of this shot tricks the S, as the camera loses practically all of the highlight detail in the sunny bay window trim. The shadow areas under the porch and in the shade of the small tree front right show stronger detail however, with the brick and shrubbery patterns clear and distinct, although there is a fair bit of noise in the shadows.

The table below shows our resolution and quality series, followed by ISO, contrast, sharpness, and saturation series. Lens Zoom Range We've received a number of requests from readers to take shots showing the lens focal length range of those cameras with zoom lenses.

Thus, we're happy to present you here with the following series of shots, showing the field of view with the lens at full wide angle, the lens at full 4x telephoto , and the lens at full telephoto with 2x digital zoom enabled. The S's lens covers a range equivalent to a 35 - mm zoom on a 35mm film camera. Following are the results at each zoom setting. The Auto setting resulted in a cool color balance, with pale skin tones, while the Daylight setting resulted in a much warmer image.

Overall color and skin tones look good, with an accurate blue value on the Oriental model's robe the blue is only slightly purplish in places, a common problem among digicams. Resolution is high, with good detail visible throughout the frame. Macro Shot k Standard Macro Shot Macro with Flash The S performed pretty well in the macro category, capturing a slightly large minimum area of 4.

Color and resolution are both good, though the gray background has a pinkish cast. Details are sharp on the coins and brooch, slightly less so on the bill itself: It looks like the camera focused on the brooch, leaving the bill slightly soft.

We were again impressed by how well the S's lens held sharpness into the corners, a particularly tough task at macro distances. There's just a slight softness in the texture of the background in the corners, but nothing like what we're used to seeing from digicams on this test.

The S's flash k did a reasonably good job of throttling down for the macro area, though coverage is uneven and the brooch causes a bright reflection.

We shot samples of this target using the Auto k , Daylight k , and Manual k white balance settings, choosing the Auto setting for our main shot. Manual produced very accurate results as well, though with a slight magenta cast in the highlights, and the Daylight setting resulted in a warm image. Exposure is a little too bright, judging from the loss of detail in the highlight areas and the almost washed out tonal distribution of the Q60 target.

Color is accurate, though the large color blocks are slightly weak in saturation. The shadow areas show strong detail, with moderately low noise. Color is excellent, as is overall brightness even at the ISO setting.

Noise was extremely high at the ISO setting as you might expect , and while noise greatly reduced at the lower ISO settings, there was still much more of it than we'd like to see. Minolta should definitely consider adding some form of noise reduction to the S, at the very least an in-camera dark-frame subtraction.

We refer interested readers to Mike Chaney's Qimage Pro software for a program that does an excellent job of removing noise of this sort of noise without overly disturbing the underlying picture information. The table below shows the best exposure we were able to obtain for each of a range of illumination levels. Images in this table like all of our sample photos are untouched, exactly as they came from the camera.

Intensity remained high throughout the test series, with no falloff all the way out to the 14 foot limit of our test. We'd therefore say that Minolta's 3 meter 9. Below is our flash range series, with distances from eight to 14 feet from the target. It started showing artifacts in the test patterns at resolutions as low as lines per picture height, in both horizontal and vertical directions.

We found "strong detail" out to at least 1, lines though, and "extinction" of the target patterns didn't occur until about 1, lines. Optical distortion on the S is better than average at the wide-angle end, where we measured an approximate 0. The telephoto end did quite a bit better yet, as we couldn't find even one pixel of pincushion distortion. Chromatic aberration is almost nonexistent, showing only about two or three very faint pixels of coloration on either side of the target lines.

This distortion is visible as a very slight colored fringe around the objects at the edges of the field of view on the resolution target. As we said before, the S's lens is very impressive. Purchase printers directly from us or access our network of sales offices, dealers and authorized resellers. Error: Javascript is disabled in this browser. This page requires Javascript. Modify your browser's settings to allow Javascript to execute.

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Also, buy the highest capacity AAs the manufacturer makes, the few extra dollars for the extra capacity is usually well worth it.

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