Canon Digital IXUS 870 IS Reviews: Digital Compact Camera

+ Takes pictures very quickly and easily, picture quality and zoom outstanding.

- When looking through picture library the round scroll bar is easy is accidentally move, meaning you suddenly end up looking at a picture you weren't expecting. Flash is a bit too strong at first but this is easily fixed with a bit of fiddling with the settings.

+ Build quality is excellent, the LCD screen is large and clear plus it is still clearly visible even in the sunlight. The different scene settings give plenty of flexibility.

- A little heavier than I would have liked but that is most likely due to the robust build quality. It is too easy to catch the selection ring which is positioned around the main button arrangement.

+ I bought this cam to replace my Sony P72 in preparation for a visit to Florida. The camera is easy to use when set on automatic and it copes well with most situations. Image when fully zoomed was much better than expected. Battery life is excellent and the flash seems upto most tasks. The movie feature is good, allowing editing which was not available on my last cam, would have prefered mpg instead of mov format. The cam is ready for action quickly, much faster than my old Sony. It's also fairly robust (it has been dropped a few times). The face detection mode waits for you to join the photo, by counting the faces then waiting for one more, it actually works !

- The flash cannot be forced on when in auto (it can be force off), this sometimes leaves some unwanted shadows. Using one of the program modes gets around this. Nightshots can be trouble for the canon, mainly trying for focus.

+ This is a beautifully small and elegant little camera with a superfast start-up time and is a pleasure to use.
Build quality of this camera is excellent, and it feels good in the hand - though maybe not in very large hands.
Controls are neat and intuitive and easy to navigate after a few minutes of use.
It has a very nice quality Canon lens.
The picture quality, even though its a 10 megapixel, is up to Canon`s usual high standard, ie, excellent !
It has an absolutively beautiful 3in LCD screen that is a pleasure to look at, with a crisp and colourful image.
Video quality, though not HD, is very good indeed and does not disappoint in any way.
The battery life on this little camera is also really good (considering the size of the LCD) and isnt a problem. In conclusion, this is a great little Japanese-made point-and-shoot camera that is beautiful to look at, small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, and which also takes fine pictures.

- I honestly and truthfully cannot, after just a few weeks of use, find any bad points with this camera, except possibly, the lack of manual control of aperture/shutter, which would have made this little gem perfect !

+ Good image quality
Rather easy-to-use

- Not wide angle
No high-quality movies

+ very good product.

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+ very quick from switching the camera on to taking a picture. picture quality excellent and colours really strong. really good at doing close up photos

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+ easy to use, good to look at. Good battery life.

- None found so far.

+ Small but easy to handle. Good image quality even when straying into digital zoom. Wide angle lens allows close up photographs.

- Control system takes a little getting used to. The zoom is fast but can be difficult to stop at the right point.

+ good battery life,nice quality feel, packed full of features, excellent picture quality for a inexpensive camera. Everything you would expect from Cannon

- None worth mentioning

+ The Camera is very intuitive to use if you don't want to read the manual.. BUT reading the manual has enhanced my experience.. Still a lot more to read, but already getting fantastic results. Would recommend the camera to anyone and I am soooo pleased I bought it.

- Some of the terminology on the camera is a bit technical and alright if you know what it means in the first place.

+ It is a good point and shoot camera that I got as a gift for my sister as she takes lots of photos of her little one and she has been extremely happy with it. It also allows her to take good quality, short video clips.

- The dial location (when choosing picture type) can easily move thus resulting in less than perfect picture quality.

+ Probably as good as a compact digital gets. Very simple for point-and-shoot yet with enough features to provide extensive manual control.

- Haven't found any yet.

+ Image quality, size

- Video saved in different bits according to when individual shots finished not like a video camera.

+ Picture quality is really good.
Some really cool features and things to play around with.

- Optical zoom just wasn't good enough for my liking.