Freaking red-eye

[Kenazo]

Is there any way to reduce the amount of redeye I'm getting? It seems to be the norm in my pictures from Christmas, which I just now took a peak at.

 

[JDrake]

Photoshop...

 

[kyotousa]

isn't the camera suppose to reduce it by flash twice?

 

[farmercal]

photoshop elements will fix the pictures in no time. There are some free programs that do it as well. Not difficult and I fix them all the time.

 

[George P Burdell]

Use software... you could try the camera's built in red-eye function, but personally i would avoid that.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: kyotousa
isn't the camera suppose to reduce it by flash twice?

That doesn't always work.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Picasa.

 

[Kenazo]

I've used some of these software solutions for fixing it after the fact, but are there any settings that I should be checking on the camera?

 

[Rubycon]

The solution to the problem is not use the built in flash.

When the flash is on axis with the lens, some light comes back as a glow. This is no different than seeing animals' eyes glowing from a flashlight afar.

Matter of fact, if you have a decent pinpoint light source, you can boresight it (look down it like a gun) and point at someone's eyes. You will see the pink/red glow! It's creepy!

 

[syee]

I saw a flash diffuser on Ebay a while back. Can't seem to find the link anymore. It was a clip on unit that you clipped in front of the flash.

I guess you could acheive the same thing with a bit of paper and some tape. Try that and see if it helps.

 

[Ornery]

Originally posted by: Ornery

Every single person who owns a DC could benefit from an add on flash. Too bad so many chose pocket cameras that can't accommodate such a thing.

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
The solution to the problem is not use the built in flash.

When the flash is on axis with the lens, some light comes back as a glow. This is no different than seeing animals' eyes glowing from a flashlight afar.

Matter of fact, if you have a decent pinpoint light source, you can boresight it (look down it like a gun) and point at someone's eyes. You will see the pink/red glow! It's creepy!

DINGDINGDING!!!

However, the S500 has no provision for replacing the onboard flash. Only options are optically triggered slaves. Those don't help much unless you somehow mask the onboard flash allowing only enough light to escape to trigger the slave.

One of the reasons I still use an old Olympus C-4000: I can use my film camera flashes with it! It has provisions for a standard PC socket. 🙂