- Review Centre
- Photography
- Digital Cameras
- Digital Cameras Archive
- Canon Ixus 55
- coemgenus's review
Have a picture of Canon Ixus 55?, please send it to us.
Picture courtesy of John.
| Value for Money | 8.2/10  |
|---|---|
| Reviewer Rating | 9.2/10 |
| Overall Rating | 9.3/10  |
By coemgenus
on 25th Jan 2007
| Time Digital Camera Owned | Over 1 Year |
|---|---|
| Image Quality | 8/10 |
| Battery Life | 7/10 |
| Features | 7/10 |
| Ease of Use | 9/10 |
| Value for money | 7/10 |
| Overall value | 8/10 |
 coemgenus's recommendation | |
Good quality images
Solid construction
Attractive design
Many features
Flimsy interface port
Case scratches easily
Very low capacity SD card included
I bought the Ixus 55 camera after looking at several in this price range by Canon, Sony and others. On first taking the camera in my hand, I was immediately struck by the high quality construction and flawless finish. The same thought that has gone into engineering the camera hardware is evident in the software too. It is possible to start taking snaps immediately thanks to the excellent and intuitive automatic modes. Most importantly, the images produced are very good indeed thanks to the advanced exposure and focus systems and the excellent lens and image sensor. The small dedicated lithium battery provides enough energy to cope with most situations. I recently used the camera on a week's holiday in the Sahara, and took about 200 photos together with about 10 minutes of video on my 1Gb SD. The battery held out until the last day, which was very impressive for a unit of this size. I would recommend taking along a second battery (there are inexpensive generic versions available) and also installing a high capacity storage card (again inexpensive) to allow the excellent video capabilities to be fully used. I would also suggest a few minutes looking through the manual settings in the main instruction manual will pay dividends. I used these to enhance the red of sunsets and the blue of clear skies producing striking images.
All in all an excellent small point-and-shoot digital camera. I would buy another.
coemgenus's review has yet to be rated - Be the first!
Would you like to see a review that's not being listed?
