Experiment on Manual taking it through the f stops. The first was set up to look as though it was correct on the lcd on the lowest possible F number. This is taken in sunlight and the wall is white. Camera: Canon PowerShot S5 IS Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250) Aperture: f/3.5 Focal Length: 13.5 mm ISO Speed: 100 Exposure Bias: 0 EV Flash: Off, Did not fire File Size: 2.0 MB File Type: JPEG MIME Type: image/jpeg Image Width: 3264 Image Height: 2448 Encoding Process: Baseline DCT, Huffman coding Bits Per Sample: 8 Color Components: 3 Orientation: Horizontal (normal) X-Resolution: 180 dpi Y-Resolution: 180 dpi Date and Time (Modified): 2009:08:28 12:12:10 YCbCr Positioning: Centered Date and Time (Original): 2009:08:28 12:12:10 Date and Time (Digitized): 2009:08:28 12:12:10 Compressed Bits Per Pixel: 3 Max Aperture Value: 3.5 Metering Mode: Center-weighted average Color Space: sRGB Focal Plane X-Resolution: 14506.66667 dpi Focal Plane Y-Resolution: 14485.2071 dpi Sensing Method: One-chip color area Custom Rendered: Normal Exposure Mode: Manual White Balance: Auto Digital Zoom Ratio: 1 Scene Capture Type: Standard Macro Mode: Normal Self Timer: Off Quality: Fine Canon Flash Mode: Off Continuous Drive: Single Focus Mode: Single Record Mode: JPEG Canon Image Size: Large Easy Mode: Manual Digital Zoom: None Contrast: Normal Saturation: Normal Sharpness: 0 Camera ISO: 100 Metering Mode: Center-weighted average Focus Range: Auto AFPoint: Manual AF point selection Canon Exposure Mode: Manual Lens Type: Unknown (-1) Long Focal: 72 mm Short Focal: 6 mm Focal Units: 100 Max Aperture: 3.6 Min Aperture: 8 Flash Activity: 0 Flash Bits: (none) Focus Continuous: Continuous AESetting: Normal AE Image Stabilization: On Zoom Source Width: 3264 Zoom Target Width: 3264 Spot Metering Mode: Center Manual Flash Output: n/a Focal Type: Zoom Focal Plane XSize: 5.84 mm Focal Plane YSize: 4.39 mm Auto ISO: 100 Base ISO: 100 Measured EV: 8.56 Target Aperture: 3.6 Target Exposure Time: 1/251 White Balance: Auto Slow Shutter: Off Sequence Number: 0 Optical Zoom Code: 46 Flash Guide Number: 0 Flash Exposure Comp: 0 Auto Exposure Bracketing: Off AEBBracket Value: 0 Control Mode: Camera Local Control Focus Distance Upper: 1.27 Focus Distance Lower: 0 Bulb Duration: 0 Camera Type: Compact Auto Rotate: None NDFilter: Off Self Timer2: 0 Flash Output: 0 Canon Firmware Version: Firmware Version 1.01 File Number: 101-9779 Rotation: 0 Canon Model ID: PowerShot S5 IS AFMode: Single-point AF Num AFPoints: 9 Valid AFPoints: 1 AFArea Widths: 196 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AFArea Heights: 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Primary AFPoint: 0 Super Macro: Off Date Stamp Mode: Off My Color Mode: Off Firmware Revision: 1.01 rev 2.00 Categories: (none) Faces Detected: 0 Face Detect Frame Width: 0 Face Detect Frame Height: 0 Related Image Width: 3264 Related Image Height: 2448 Compression: JPEG (old-style)

Experiment on Manual taking it through the f stops. The first was set up to look as though it was correct on the lcd. This is taken in sunlight and the wall is white. Camera: Canon PowerShot S5 IS Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250) Aperture: f/8.0 Focal Length: 13.5 mm ISO Speed: 100 Exposure Bias: 0 EV Flash: Off, Did not fire File Size: 2.2 MB File Type: JPEG MIME Type: image/jpeg Image Width: 3264 Image Height: 2448 Encoding Process: Baseline DCT, Huffman coding Bits Per Sample: 8 Color Components: 3 Orientation: Horizontal (normal) X-Resolution: 180 dpi Y-Resolution: 180 dpi Date and Time (Modified): 2009:08:28 12:12:38 YCbCr Positioning: Centered Date and Time (Original): 2009:08:28 12:12:38 Date and Time (Digitized): 2009:08:28 12:12:38 Compressed Bits Per Pixel: 3 Max Aperture Value: 3.5 Metering Mode: Center-weighted average Color Space: sRGB Focal Plane X-Resolution: 14506.66667 dpi Focal Plane Y-Resolution: 14485.2071 dpi Sensing Method: One-chip color area Custom Rendered: Normal Exposure Mode: Manual White Balance: Auto Digital Zoom Ratio: 1 Scene Capture Type: Standard Macro Mode: Normal Self Timer: Off Quality: Fine Canon Flash Mode: Off Continuous Drive: Single Focus Mode: Single Record Mode: JPEG Canon Image Size: Large Easy Mode: Manual Digital Zoom: None Contrast: Normal Saturation: Normal Sharpness: 0 Camera ISO: 100 Metering Mode: Center-weighted average Focus Range: Auto AFPoint: Manual AF point selection Canon Exposure Mode: Manual Lens Type: Unknown (-1) Long Focal: 72 mm Short Focal: 6 mm Focal Units: 100 Max Aperture: 3.6 Min Aperture: 8 Flash Activity: 0 Flash Bits: (none) Focus Continuous: Continuous AESetting: Normal AE Image Stabilization: On Zoom Source Width: 3264 Zoom Target Width: 3264 Spot Metering Mode: Center Manual Flash Output: n/a Focal Type: Zoom Focal Plane XSize: 5.84 mm Focal Plane YSize: 4.39 mm Auto ISO: 100 Base ISO: 100 Measured EV: 8.53 Target Aperture: 8 Target Exposure Time: 1/251 White Balance: Auto Slow Shutter: Off Sequence Number: 0 Optical Zoom Code: 46 Flash Guide Number: 0 Flash Exposure Comp: 0 Auto Exposure Bracketing: Off AEBBracket Value: 0 Control Mode: Camera Local Control Focus Distance Upper: 1.62 Focus Distance Lower: 0 Bulb Duration: 0 Camera Type: Compact Auto Rotate: None NDFilter: Off Self Timer2: 0 Flash Output: 0 Canon Firmware Version: Firmware Version 1.01 File Number: 101-9785 Rotation: 0 Canon Model ID: PowerShot S5 IS AFMode: Single-point AF Num AFPoints: 9 Valid AFPoints: 1 AFArea Widths: 196 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AFArea Heights: 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Primary AFPoint: 0 Super Macro: Off Date Stamp Mode: Off My Color Mode: Off Firmware Revision: 1.01 rev 2.00 Categories: (none) Faces Detected: 0 Face Detect Frame Width: 0 Face Detect Frame Height: 0 Related Image Width: 3264 Related Image Height: 2448 Compression: JPEG (old-style)