Kinon O'Cann wrote:
I just read the review (www.steves-digicams.com) of the Nikon S3, and
while Steve seems to like it (a lot) the sample pix look utterly
horrible! Vignetting, amped up colors, soft, and noisy. Am I seeing
things? Or are the samples that bad?

I stopped reading Steve's Digicams a long time ago for this reason.
He never saw a camere he didn't pretend to like...