On Jun 19, 6:15 am, wrote:
I have a Canon S50 pocket camera. It has a full manual mode, but I
found that images are very "grainy" in the manual mode, even when I
would make all settings exactly the same as get set in auto. To avoid
that I would just set the camera to P and adjust the white balance
with + and -.

Presumably in manual mode, you're on a high ISO setting, but in auto
mode, the camera is using a low ISO. Drop your ISO in manual to 100
and the grain will go away

Ray