Canon IXUS 500 perfect for art projects (Canon Digital Ixus 500)

Member Name: casdious

Product:	Canon Digital Ixus 500
Date:	03/07/05 (137 review reads)
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Advantages: Sturdy, high quality, simple but efficient interface

Disadvantages: Not the smallest of cameras around. Noisy zoom.

I bought the Canon IXUS 500 having had the previous model, Canon IXUS 400, for a while, and though I thought the IXUS 400 was great quality I didn't expect there to be much room for improvement, but there was. It uses the same physical design as the rest of the series but its photographic capabilities are superb and have been improved rather nicely.

I am not just an amateur photographer - in fact I am a Fine Art student and artist in London, and so reliability of quality is a must if I'm to use this camera to take photos that represent me in the art world. This is a camera that I can trust.

It's not made just to look pretty and so it isn't tiny in size but instead takes into account just what is needed for superior picture quality and not qimmicky nonsense. Because of this, it is really very sturdy - having dropped it so many times and it still working shows that!

Also, it doesn't take long to understand all the functions. There's an automatic mode for less experienced users, in which case it'll decide a lot of the settings for you to take the best pictures, and there's a manual mode, in which you can adjust it to do just what you want. In each case, the interface to do this with couldn't be simpler.


All in all a brilliant camera, in my opinion, and one I would recommend to anyone wanting a professional, robust and beautifully high quality picture digital camera.

Summary: Recommended to anyone wanting a professional, robust and high quality picture digital camera.

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