Silver, sexy, small. (Canon Digital Ixus)

Member Name: Odinsday

Product:	Canon Digital Ixus
Date:	09/10/00 (406 review reads)
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Advantages: Small size, good quality pictures, cutting edge technology.

Disadvantages: Slightly slow response on taking pictures.

This camera exudes sex appeal. It's the size of a box of cigarettes, silver, and high tech. Gadgets have to be sexy for me to speed money on them. Big, square, bricks masquerading as digital cameras were not going to get my vote. Dinky and polished steel was.

The Ixus is not only small, but it's light, fully featured and easy as anything to use. Just point and click. The manual is extremely well written. The buttons and User Interface on the back of the camera is well thought out and easy enough to use. The small display is crystal clear and gives a good playback of the picture you've just taken, including a nice zoom function to look closer at any part of the picture you desire.

One small niggle is that it takes around 2 seconds to take a picture, until you get used to the system. You have to half depress the shutter for it to line up and focus. Then pressing the rest of the way takes your snap. Once you are aware of this you can get your set up sorted at first and take pictures a lot quicker. The manual mode also makes things a little quicker as it takes pictures straight away.

Other nice things are the easy to use PC (or Mac) program to download you pictures to your hard drive, the very useful x2 zoom (makes the camera equivalent of a 35-70mm zoom), digital zoom (at the expense of picture clarity) and the 2.1million pixel resolution (1600x1200 or there abouts). It comes with a 8mb memory card, enough for around 11 high-resolution pictures or 30-odd low-res (640x800) photos. I'd recommend spending the extra for a 16 or 32 Mb Card (23 or 52 high-res pictures).

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