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Beaky69

1:34 PM on 10 December, 2008

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Is 'chromatic abberation' the same as purple fringing in high-contrast areas of the image? If so, the photo showing corner-sharpness shows plenty of it! (unless it's a compression artefact?).

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Ed

1:52 PM on 10 December, 2008

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Chromatic aberration is a general term for various colour altering effects that can occur due to a poor lens. One of which is purple fringeing and, yes, there is some in that photo. Not a lot though.

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theimer

4:50 PM on 10 December, 2008

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As far as I know, while looking very similar, purple fringing and chromatic aberration are competely different phenomena. Purple fringing is a sensor-based effect, caused by a charge overload leaking from one CCD-element to its neighbouring ones. On the other hand, chromatic aberration is in fact a optics-related effect, caused by different refractions of the different colours of light passing the lens.

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AndyfromVA

9:40 PM on 10 December, 2008

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What a crummy camera. I think your scores are too kind. I'd give it a 4 for image quality, value and overall.

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CliffSmith

7:22 PM on 11 December, 2008

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Here's a tutorial I wrote on chromatic aberration: http://www.trustedreviews.com/digital-cameras/review/2008/10/20/Digital-Photography-Tutorial---Chromatic-Aberration/p1

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reflux

5:25 PM on 20 March, 2009

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Im interested in this camera and was wondering if you anyone knows anythin about the shutter priority mode. Usually nikons have a 'firework show' mode, which at night you can take a pic of fireworks or cars on a motorway at a low shutter speed of 4secs.

So i wanted to know if you can set the shutter priority on this camera for use during the day and at night? And what is the longest time the shutter will stay open for?

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johnsomer

1:12 AM on 8 July, 2010

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We purchased this camera 08.11.2008.from Harvey Norman computer Super store aspley QLD Australia. My Wife taken about 50 photos the photos quality was excellent. June 2010 she wanted to take a photo of our Great grand Child and find the camera inoperable, showing a message "lens error" i returned the camera to the Store where I been told "have to pay $49 for estimate and what ever is the repair cost. I have contacted NIKON, where I been told "the repair would cost over $200 for a camera used only 6 to 7 Times taking about 50 photos. Thank you Nikon. Thank you Harvey Norman.

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While the S710 is an impressive-looking camera with excellent build quality and lots of big numbers on the box, not least the price tag, the slippery handling, fiddly control dial and slow performance limit its appeal compared to some very strong rivals, and its indifferent image quality, with very limited dynamic range, poor colour depth and noise problems, mean that it is outclassed by its own cheaper stablemates. 14.5 megapixels and 12,800 ISO might sound impressive, but what's the point if the picture quality suffers?

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Reviewed by Cliff Smith

10 December 2008

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£232.00

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