All Discussions - s95site: the Canon S95/S100 Community

Night-time shooting!

syf — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:23:08 -0500

Let's share our night-time shots! Full interior lighting doesn't count (since we wont know the difference)

Best Case for S95?

juxy — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:05:50 -0500

My new S95 should arrive in a few days and I haven't yet ordered a case. Is the Canon DCC 1450 worth the money? What cases if any, do you guys use and what comments would you make about them? Cheers, Al.

Favorite S95 Shot-of-the-moment

solarshooter — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:27:16 -0400

Post your favorite shot of the moment. Lets keep it to great photos, and no more than one post a day for each member.

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Here's mine for now: Took a little while to line this one up, approaching the golden hour up on the coastal terrace oak savannah.

The Impossible Tree.
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Red Sensitivity

syzygynius — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:12:09 -0400

Tell me if you are seeing inordinate red sensitivity in your pictures in bright light (cmos sensor may be >sensitivity to IR), and if you do what you are doing to cut the red or IR.

Post a Picture

syzygynius — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:44:54 -0400

So, I am having trouble posting a picture. I am sure that it is a small thing I am not doing. I got one up, but I do not know how that happened. The Help from this blog does not remedy the problem. I post from Flickr.

Spam management

macmanjpc — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:59:12 -0400

Has anyone else noticed we are being attacked by a Spam Bot? Just thought I'd point out the obvious.

Cheers,

Jason.

New possible S95 aficionado

Rockandrollaz — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:40:07 -0400

Hello fellows I'm thinking about buying this gem, have just sold my 40D for simple lack of use, and in all honesty not happy about the results either..
I had a G9 a couple of years ago, of which I was very happy, so decided to go more serious but I feel that a big camera gives me a lot of things I don't really need, also I take worse pictures than not, I think.
/rant, anyways, I would obviously prefer a S100, but cannot justify the cost at the moment, so looking at a used S95 for about 200€.
What you think? (obvious answers required thanks)
thanks

Photo Newbie Pics - 11 More Pics Added!

macmanjpc — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:47:40 -0400

Hello all! Introduction here, my name is Jason and I'm a photo newbie. LOL. I'm one of those clueless point and shoot guys that has always looked at others' beautiful pictures and wondered how the heck they managed it. Well, two weeks ago I decided to do something about it and purchased a Canon S95 and a few accessories, namely a GorillaPod, Lensmate Adapter and Filters and Alexander White's 'Photographer's Guide to the Canon PowerShot S95' book. I had the camera for 2 days before a trip to Thailand. I shot tons and tons of pics. Figured the more I took the better my chances of some good ones. I experimented with many of the camera's features but really wanted to stay away from Auto and Scene modes so the majority of my pics were shot using Aperture or Shutter Priority Modes (didn't even know what they were a couple weeks ago. Some other shots were on Program Mode and a couple on Manual.

I've uploaded a few to Flickr and I'm hoping for a couple critiques. Not looking for praise where it's not due but at the same time don't crush my hopes and dreams either. I'm a fragile new photographer here. Any tips or suggestions to achieve better results or composition are certainly appreciated.

Please let me know what you think. Feel free to link up a pic to your reply if you're making reference to a particular shot(s) so I know what you're talking about.

Thanks!

Here's the link...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/macmanjpc/sets/72157629222325380/

New things you've learned about the S95, even though you've had one for a year!

jda180s95 — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:41:07 -0400

After reading some of the posts and questions in this forum, I sometimes get the camera out to try things out in the menu system or in the manual, and then learn some new feature - this thread is for S95 owners to talk about features of the camera they'd missed first (or second) time around!

I thought I'd start with the "auto exposure lock" in P mode - very clever, ensures you get the correct exposure but lets you choose between all the right combinations of shutter speed and aperture...

Needs the S function button setting of course, something I've not used much before...

What have you found recently?

Jonathan

Purple fringing

Adam — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:03:58 -0400

Hi Everybody, I'm Adam and new to this site. I recently sold my Fuji X100 in order to purchase a smaller camera. I love the S100 but sadly had to return it due to purple fringing ( when viewed at 100 % ) I am awaiting a replacement. Has anybody encountered this problem ? Thanks for reading this.
Ps - I so want to love this camera. Adam

Brilliant book for S95 owners..

guntherfurlong — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:14:06 -0500

Recently purchased this book "Photographer's Guide To the Canon Powershot S95" by Alexander White ... over Amazon..

Really loving it.

Me being a beginning with a neat, small powerful camera... I'm learning alot of new stuff when I'm not on the net.

Go get it...
http://www.amazon.com/Photographers-Guide-Canon-PowerShot-S95/dp/0964987562/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1328696029&sr=8-2&tag=s95site-20

Shots taken with a non S95 camera

Hitman — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:09:52 -0500

For those of you that own multiple cameras and would like to present some of your other work that isn´t shot with the Canon S95, This is the place!

Please mention the used camera with each photo!

S100 firmware question

atkamano — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:01:20 -0400

Hey guys, I am having issues finding the exact firmware for my newly purchased S100. I know it has the official 1.0.1.0 update already installed but wanted to know what the exact firmware was.

I did the following to get the version number:

1) Format a new 2 GB SD card
2) Copied the empty ver.req and vers.req files to the root
3) Turned on the S100 with the Playback button
4) Hold FUNC SET button, while holding FUNC SET button press DOWN for DISP button with separate finger.

So far the only thing that has come up is the display time. No firmware data.

Any help?

HDR using exposure bracketing

averylowiq — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:01:05 -0400

Here are some old fashioned exposure bracketed HDR images that I took using S95. I didn't try the built-in HDR functionality yet though.

Tethering? view image on a pc

Hildahoop — Sat, 12 May 2012 06:22:04 -0400

Hello I used to do a bit of photography in the old Ae1 program days before auto focus! I got tired of carrying all the stuff around. I love the flexibility and compactness of the s95. I do have a question does anyone know if it is possible to instantly view the photo just taken on a monitor screen without actually downloading it to a program then opening that file? I am having a 50th birthday party and was hoping to set up a sort of photo booth in my house but i don't want to have to sit at the computer all night opening the photos is there anyway i can hook it to a computer and have the monitor mirror the image on the camera.
thanks in advance

image stitching (panorama shots)

thomasz — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:41:57 -0400

I've been experimenting with the image stitching with varying results. Sometimes images are lighter or darker than the neighbouring image - this causes the image stitching seam to show clearly. Perhaps there's an experienced image stitcher out there that has a good suggestion on how much the images should overlap for best results. Sometimes tall buildings are distorted and show 'ghost' structures at varying angles.

S95 for macro/close-up/bug photos

solarshooter — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:15:50 -0400

I like to take photos of little things. Insects, seedlings, miniature worlds.

The S95 is quite a good camera for this purpose, as the large sensor takes in a lot of light and allows the camera to focus on small scenes. It takes excellent quality close up photos with no fuss. There's a defined "macro" mode (and also a manual focus mode), but I've hardly even experimented with these, as it seems that in "auto" the camera will happily focus at the minimum range.

Here's a close-up I shot a couple weeks ago. I've read about this phenomenon but have rarely witnessed it. I looked underneath one of my sunflower's leave to find thousands and thousands of aphids in all life stages. Hordes of ants were walking amongst these aphids, and periodically "milking" them for sweet honeydew. Here's the shot, uncropped (at 2:3 aspect ratio, not full sensor 3:4).

This was taken at the widest lens angle. That is, zoomed out all the way, with the camera held very close to the subject. At this short distance, the focal range is very narrow. You can see the plane of focus follow the curve of the leaf. Everything in front of and behind this plane is suitably blurry. I'd judge this to be a good photo and an interesting look into a tiny subject, ant-aphid relations. But the pocketable S95 clearly doesn't offer huge magnification, not like an SLR rig with a big macro lens.

There's a trick, though, for a more magnified looking picture. The high resolution sensor allows for some cropping to get a closer look. Here's an 1800x1200px crop of the same photo (shrunk to fit the forum). This is still enough pixels (300dpi) for a high-quality print at 4x6".

Now this is a great photo. You can make out aphid antennae, ant mandibles, and the jewel-like abdomen of a honeydew engorged ant.

And just for reference, here's a crop of the photo at full size, using all of the sensor's pixels. (Note that the full crop isn't in the focal plane. The aphids near the center left are at max focus.) A full size crop like this might even look a little nicer with a bit more sharpening on the computer.

Underwater/Waterproof Housing for S95

solarshooter — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 07:20:24 -0500

Just came across this... Canon makes an underwater housing for the S95.

There's also an underwater housing for the S95 that looks even swankier (and is a cool $100 more) made a company called Ikelite.

These housings look like a ton of fun, but unfortunately I'm not underwater often enough to justify the price... Anyone who's tried one of these housings want to report back? With photos, I hope? :)

Bokeh, share your images...

Babes — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:26:13 -0400

Basically, bokeh is the quality of out-of-focus or “blurry” parts of the image rendered by a camera lens – it is NOT the blur itself or the amount of blur in the foreground or the background of a subject. The blur that you are so used to seeing in photography that separates a subject from the background is the result of shallow depth of field and is generally simply called “background blur”. The quality and feel of the background/foreground blur and reflected points of light, however, is what photographers call Bokeh. (from http://mansurovs.com)
I have always been fascinated by photos with the bokeh effect. But have never tried on purpose to achieve good results. My bokeh photos were always by pure luck.
Do you shoot any photos with bokeh on your mind? Or are you just like me, when you go through your photos you say: Oh, there is bokeh!!! :-)
Im sharing an image from a couple of days ago. The spaces between the flowers and shrubs allowed the sun to shine through...giving me bokeh!
Share your images and your insight...:-)

Reflexions

qcridgerunner — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:25:14 -0400

Please share your double vision.

Food photography

Mavisxk — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:46:04 -0400

Share photos of foods that you had taken with Canon s95 :)

Landscape Images

tonywhite — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:21:29 -0500

Hi all,does anybody have any good Landscape Images that they have taken with the s95.After signing up to the forum last week and doing a lot of research on the s95 I purchased one last Sunday.
As I am big into landscape photography I would love to see some images from others who use the s95 for landscape.
Also could someone please tell me how to place shots taken with the s95 on this thread,as I would love to put up some images.
Regards Tony!!!!

B&W

syf — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:23:16 -0500

Black and white photos. Post away!

Two Lips ...

syzygynius — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:45:24 -0400

Sure enjoyed the day at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival Woodburn Oregon 2012.

Focus Frames (White, Green and Blue)

GenieEric — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:39:37 -0400

I have been trying to go through the S95 User Guide and figure out when the focus frame changes to different colors. I am going cross-eyed trying to keep all the details straight.

Can someone provide a quick and easy summary that explains the meaning of (and circumstances under which) the White, Green and Blue focus frames appear?

Camera control software for the S95

ryebread — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:06:40 -0400

Is there any software out there that you can install on a PC that will control the shutter, zoom, and other manual functions of the camera? It would be nice to be able to manipulate the controls on the camera while it is mounted on a tripod.

S95 AF Frame and AF-Point Zoom settings grayed out

GenieEric — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:08:58 -0400

I am trying to become more familiar with this camera. As I read through Alexander White's Photographer's guide to the Canon Powershot S95, I see references to AF Frame and AF-Point Zoom. When I try to access those items through the menu for the various modes, they are grayed out and not accessible to me.

So ... I reset back to defaults last night and they became accessible again. Now ... after using the camera for a while today, they are grayed out again in the following modes (although they are enabled in C mode):

M, Av, Tv, P

Is this normal functioning? Is there something specific that I must be doing that disables those settings?

How to post pictures on S95site

Hitman — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:32:24 -0400

I notice a lot of newcomers to the forum are having a hard time posting pictures on the forum, so I thought I'd compile the known and discussed methods in this thread. Here you can also ask questions regarding the posting of pictures.

Please do not post trial pictures in this thread so we can keep the picture posting tips easily accesible for those who need it!

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For users of Imageshack, Photobucket, Tabulas etc. read this section. for users of Flickr scroll down to part two. Users of picasa scroll down to part three.

This section has been written by forum member Jickers, slightly edited by Hitman.
original text can be found here: http://s95site.com/forum/discussion/comment/832/#Comment_832

1.) Create an account on image sharing website.
ex. : www.photobucket.com, www.tabulas.com, etc.

2.) Upload your image you want to share and make sure the size is not so big.
3.) Copy the "Direct Link" or URL of the image (the link where you can view the image).
ex.: http://images.tabulas.com/123456/m/myphoto.jpg

4.) On the comment box, add this:
Paste the "Direct Link" or URL(pink text) .Don't forget to put the quotation marks!
5.) Don't hit the preview. It returns to homepage for some reason, you cannot preview the image (I dont know, maybe it's just on my computer). Just post your comment and edit it later if there's a typo error.

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For users of Flickr:

In flickr click: share this (if not available click the little downward poiting arrow next to the facebook and twitter icon, see picture below)

Next select grab Html / BBcode , select the pictures size and copy the complete link highlighted in the box and paste in your post on S95site. (see picture below)

With this method it is possible to use the preview button, to see what your post will look like.

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Users of Picasa

I added this part on request since I happen to have a Picasa account.

First go to the picture in Picasa web that you want to share and click on it until you are past the album level and into the picture level.

On the right side (underneath the camera info) you should see the text link to this picture in blue. when you click it it will display some options.

Now select the proper size and tick off the hide album link if you do not want people to go through your complete album.
Finally just copy past the embed image code into your post on S95 site and presto! you're done.

Good luck posting pictures! Hitman

Who Wants a MACRO Lens made specifically for the s95 and the s100?

Vand — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:21:10 -0400

Hello,
My Name is Vand on this site and last year I created a MACRO lens for the S95( see: http://s95site.com/forum/discussion/152/how-to-make-a-macro-lens-for-the-s95/#Item_52)

and I received some requests to send it to you guys so I contacted a company to see if they are willing to produce the
MACRO...They are interested in it and I will have a meeting with them next week

so...shout out if you want a macro lens!
( it will cost though but my goal is to possibly make it under 30 dollars, but I cant say yet how much it will be, because I don't know)

the lens will be very sharp and very high quality(the company is a very big lens making company)