Very good - and as you say it's a compact. Pretty noise free as well. I've been experimenting with the noise problem and have found that if you over expose by 1/3rd - 2/3rd then adjust the over -exposure in (say) Photoshop that the noise up to 400 asa disappears - might be worth a look at if your in dim conditions.

I shot this off today as the lighting was eextreme from shadow to highlight - you can see that I've boosted the exposure by 2 stops on the close -up, (and it's a big close up) and still NO NOISE.

If you're doing macro take a look at this site which may be of interest

http://lightdescription.blogspot.com/2009/04/1-2-4-10.html

Hmm, interesting. Like I said I bought this camera for underwater photography and that means not that much light in the environment so I'm interested in reducing the noise.

So, if I follow you right, what you do is set the exposure compensation wheel to +1/3 or +2/3 and then reduce the exposure (I suppose you shoot in RAW) by software post processing.

I should try it and see how it works, thanks for the tip.

Very good - and as you say it's a compact. Pretty noise free as well. I've been experimenting with the noise problem and have found that if you over expose by 1/3rd - 2/3rd then adjust the over -exposure in (say) Photoshop that the noise up to 400 asa disappears - might be worth a look at if your in dim conditions.

I shot this off today as the lighting was eextreme from shadow to highlight - you can see that I've boosted the exposure by 2 stops on the close -up, (and it's a big close up) and still NO NOISE.

If you're doing macro take a look at this site which may be of interest

http://lightdescription.blogspot.com/2009/04/1-2-4-10.html

Hmm, interesting. Like I said I bought this camera for underwater photography and that means not that much light in the environment so I'm interested in reducing the noise.

So, if I follow you right, what you do is set the exposure compensation wheel to +1/3 or +2/3 and then reduce the exposure (I suppose you shoot in RAW) by software post processing.

I should try it and see how it works, thanks for the tip.

Yes, that's exactly what I do. I actually use Lightroom wherein you have selective exposure adjustments, shadow/highlight corrections etc etc. And yes, I ALWAYS shoot Raw.

Look at this - http://www.guillermoluijk.com/article/nonoise/index_en.htm