I've gone over practically every digicam in your review and I can't find one that fills all my basic requirements -- am I fussy or what! :-) I want the color accuracy of the Kodak DC-290, but it's too bulky and heavy. I want the ability to control depth-of-field using AP, or at least some AE scheme leaning towards either small aper or fast shutter, so that rules out the DC-240.

The Canon S10 looks ideal (2.1MPixel, ISO100-200, optical zoom, fast lens, 700lines v/h, tiny/light, fast/slow-shutter AE modes), except that it's color reproduction, pales in comparision to the DC290. Specifically, it fails at the usual "difficult blues", rendering blues purplish.

So my question is, can I post-process the S10 images, to 'equalize' the color-response of this camera's CCD, using some common image-editing sw? My understanding of light and color is superficial, but my training in EE and frequency-response tells me that this is not a simple R+x,B+y,G+z type procedure.

Thanks in advance!

-- Wing Poon (wing3@idt.net), January 30, 2000

Answers

Try an Epson 850Z with a Tiffen 812 warming filter. Your blues will all go away and the 850Z has very good automatic and manual controls. Here are some sample photos I came across on another forum.

http://players.won.net/casino/stevie4809/

http://members.home.com/jennasmith/

I have had my Epson 850Z for about a month now and I really like it. Actually I like it so much I dusted off my 35mm SLR equipment and sold it on Ebay. Not a bad deal really. It sold to the dollar of what I paid for the 850Z.

-- Bob G. (rgreg88721@hotmail.com), February 02, 2000.