Ixus 850 sI early impressions (Canon Digital Ixus 850 IS)

Member Name: hobs_hobson@whsmithnet.co.uk

Product:	Canon Digital Ixus 850 IS
Date:	12/01/07 (176 review reads)
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Advantages: picture quality, size, viewfinder, display, point & shoot modes

Disadvantages: fiddly controls, recharging, doors to access, software

i like the look and feel. It is fairly small for my big hands but works very well in point and shoot with good quality pictures. Auto focus and flash both work well. Good optical zoom.
Good viewfinder that zooms with camera, and large bright display.
Many modes and options, some are quite easy to identify and use like self-timer and flash on/off, but others less intuitive to understand and use. The (advanced) manual is quite brief describing these, failing to describe how they work, whcih doesn't help. Fiddly controls.
You need to take the battery out to recharge it - will the door take the treatment over the long term?
Loads of software (200mb) none of which ran on my XP home system. the driver is in XP so i am using Picasa.

Summary: good camera let down by a couple of niggles

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