For what seems to be a fairly straightforward image, this shot causes surprising problems for many digicams, producing color casts in cameras that have no trouble whatsoever with our other tests. As before, resolution is excellent, perhaps being somewhat limited by the poster itself here. Once beyond the curve-ball thrown by this poster to the camera's white balance system, the results were excellent. Both macro flash shots are somewhat dark, as the subject and flash positioning apparently fooled the flash exposure sensor into shutting down the flash a bit early. All colors are unusually accurate, the only criticism we can find anywhere being that the bright yellow is just slightly weak.
Tonal range is also excellent, with good detail in both the highlights and shadows.
Color was quite accurate anywhere the camera could capture a usable picture, but the F505 wouldn't be the first choice for photographers interested in extensive night shooting. This agreed well with the results of our own tests, which showed the flash being quite bright out to 9 feet, falling off slowly after that. The table below shows the results we obtained at various distances, with the lens set to the telephoto end of its range. We've commented extensively on the apparent sharpness of the DSC-F505's lens in our other tests, and the resolution target results support our earlier observations. As is often the case in this test, we can easily see detail reaching far beyond the theoretical limits of the camera.