Boring Default Ixus (Canon Digital Ixus 860 IS)

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Product:	Canon Digital Ixus 860 IS
Date:	24/07/09 (32 review reads)
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Advantages: Compact size, good quality display screen,

Disadvantages: Does not allow you to change manual settings

The Canon Ixus 860 IS's is immediately distinguishable, with its sleek and smooth styling and classy colour. There is a slight contrasts created by the colour tones of the camera.

The quality of the photos take are reasonable and decent, however you might notice that the colour is not rich as possible, and they seem a bit inaccurate, which is true because the camera's colour accuracy is not fantastic. However, it is possible to change the white balance settings in order to minimise the effects.

The lens has a zoom range of 28mm to 105mm which is quite good for typical photography that does not require long range zoom. Its ISO can be set to 1600 which means it can be used in low light conditions, although there are times when noise will appear.

The camera's image stabilisation feature, allows you to capture images whilst moving within a reasonable speed, which does happen especially whilst on holiday or travelling.

There is a quick start up time, only taking 1 and a half seconds to power up from being off. Furthermore, the delay between separate shots when bursting is low. There is a quick delay for its shutter, which basically means that the after you press the shuttle button, the photo will be taken within 0.25 of a second, which is fast, especially for a compact camera.

However, it is no possible to manually change the aperture or shutter speed. The camera also lacks a viewfinder. Despite this, the LCD display screen is quite good and produces high quality images, it is also easy to understand and read.

There is no build in memory with the camera, however a 32 megabyte Secure Digital (SD) Card is supplied. When recording videos, the quality is decent with a good frame rate that produces a reasonably smooth video.

Summary: This is a great camera, if you are not interested in messing about with manual settings

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