The compact Canon Ixus 65 is quite a reasonable size for its specification and functions. Its styling features are quite modern with sleek styling and a zen approach, which does make the camera aesthetically pleasing. The camera is a 5.9 megapixel with 3x zoom, which is quite standard. Since these cameras are usually suited to taking the occasional photo, which means it is not ideal to be used to zoom over long distances to take photos. The amount of megapixels is decent for printing the photo on reasonably large sizes. Overall, the image quality is quite good with quite good image sharpness whilst still no having a huge amount of noise. The camera also ...  Read the complete review

I liked the overall design of the camera even though for me this is one of the least important things. The Ixus 65 is model comes in a brushed silver and ebony black and Canon have emphasised the fact that the top of the this camera is supposed to appear like a samurai sword. For a compact camera there are many impressive features to behold including a 6 megapixel sensor, 3x optical zoom, 16 shooting modes, Canon's DIGIC II processor and a 9-point AiAF for better results. At first I really found the large 3-inch 173k colour LCD screen on the back of the camera a very useful viewing platform. You will find these screens on a lot of cameras these days but they ...  Read the complete review