The 315's automatic white balance system does a great job with this shot, producing a nice white value on the mini-resolution target. We did pick up a few slight magenta tints throughout the image, but overall color balance looks pretty good. We noticed a small halo around the outer edges of some of the brighter blocks, which seems to be a typical digicam response to the contrasting colors, and a more pixelated effect around the large red color block. The tonal gradations of the smaller, vertical gray scales also look good, though the darkest two blocks appear as a single tone. The shadow area of the briquettes shows good detail, with moderately high noise, and the white gauze area shows a lot of detail as well.
Moderate noise is also visible throughout the image.
Details appear reasonably crisp in some areas, yet the mini-resolution target is very soft, as is the lower left corner of the Davebox, which we mentioned earlier. The table below shows our standard resolution and quality series. The 315 performs reasonably well in the low-light category, thanks to its maximum shutter speed of two seconds. Noise remained moderately low at the higher light levels, but increased slightly as the light level decreased. The table below shows the best exposure we were able to obtain for each of a range of illumination levels.