Canon PowerShot S60: Follow-up to the S50

Color Reproduction

* For all of our color tests, we reset the S60 to its factory default settings. It was then set to record using the highest quality JPG option.

We took a picture of our color chart using each of the following WB settings: Auto, Tungsten, and Manual. Click on a thumbnail below to view the full-size image.

Auto WB	Tungsten WB	Manual WB
Reference Chart ("actual colors")

Crops

Auto WB	Tungsten WB	Manual WB

Most current digital cameras have trouble reproducing appropriate colors under tungsten lighting with Auto WB. It seems that the S60 is a little worse than average when it comes to this problem. In the Auto WB crop the strong yellowish-orange cast causes the colors to look very different from the other crops. In fact, the light blue patch (upper-right) turns out looking pinkish-purple in our test. That said, the Tungsten and Manual settings did a wonderful job reproducing accurate colors.

Studio Shot

In this shot, we tested the camera's ability to reproduce colors in our studio shot using different WB settings. The camera was set to Aperture priority mode (f4.5) without the flash.

Auto WB	Tungsten WB	Manual WB

The yellowish-orange cast from the AWB setting is very visible in our studio shot here. There is just a slight bluish tint on the Tungsten setting. Overall, however, the Tungsten and Manual WB settings produced very pleasing results.

Built-in Flash

For the flash test, we set the camera to Auto mode (with Auto WB). The picture was taken from 5 feet away.

The S60 produced a bright natural-looking skin tone. Overall, we were very impressed with the results of the built-in flash in our test.