I also prefer the black and white. I wonder if you could lighten the small dark patch near the center. Can you shoot raw with this camera? That usually affords the best post-processing, at the expense of eating up SD cards.
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Sadly this little camera does not offer raw facility, I did not retouch or edit at all prior posting, resized for ease of uploading only.
Using GIMP or Photoshop you could lighten areas, or perhaps reset contrast slightly have not looked into that but will keep it in mind.
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