Q: After long, long research :-) I finally bought a Canon S50. I've already taken several photos and I noticed that the sky is always white. Especially when I take photos with bright sunlight and shadows. When I underexpose the photo, the sky is ok, but the darker parts of the pictures are much too dark.
In night photographs, highlights are always too bright.
Is this a known problem of the S50?
A: Try to shot in raw mode using low contrast seting, and a -1/3 or -2/3 EV exp.compensation. You will recover the sky and the shadows. This also works in jpeg, but with 8 bits you will end with less dinamic range to tweak the shadows than in the 12-bit RAW.