Canon IXUS 80IS reviews

For so long time waiting for this opportunity to buy my own digiCam (^_^) or a CyberShot mobile... thinking for so many months... then finally I decided to buy a digicam since picture taking are one of my hobbies...
I went to three malls here in Davao namely Victoria Plaza, Gaisano Mall, and Shoe Mart (SM)
...having a hard time deciding between Cybershot Sony or Canon... hmmm san nga bah sa dalawa ang maganda? grrr I wouldn't buy if I can't decide... until one time I heard from so many person I go along with "maganda gyud canon noh!..." etc... all I can hear was Canon.. even my officemate Eric told me "Canon is the best"... eto ang specs...



True to the IXUS Tradition

Beautifully crafted with smooth sculpted curves and available in 5 chic colors: Blue, Camel, Pink, Silver and Brown.

2.5” PureColor II LCD screen with wide viewing angle

Superb Image Quality

Powered by Canon’s proprietary advanced DIGIC III Imaging Processor

Benefits:

Multiple-face detection

High speed ISO 1600 shooting

Red-eye correction

Low power consumption

Lens shift-type Optical Image Stabilizer uses the superior responsiveness of its ceramic ball support system to give you shake-free sharp images.

Crystal Clear People Picture

Advanced Face Detection Technology is a complete system that captures perfect people picture.

Multiple Face Detection intellectually detects and priorities faces in the scene to give you stunningly photograph of subjects’ faces with sharpness and the right exposure.

Face Select and Tracking allows users to prioritize an individual’s face from up to 35 detected faces.

AF-point Zoom lets you see your subject’s expression close-up before capturing them in their best smiles.

Face Detection AE cleverly adjusts to the ideal exposure setting for that perfectly lit face.

Face Detection FE captures your main subject in the most flattering light during flash photography.

Face Detection WB (NEW) optimizes white balance for the face under any shooting conditions.

Corrects and eliminates Red-Eye on your subject during flash photography and playback.

Trimming (NEW) lets you zoom in to trim the beautifully captured faces and saved it as a new picture file.

Intelligent Blur Control

Hi-ISO Auto with Motion Detection Technology detects if the subject is stationary or moving and automatically adjusts to the optimum ISO levels to compensate.

Chronicles of life

New Long Play (LP) Movie function records longer footages with lesser memory consumption.

Time Lapse Movie function ideal for shooting slow-moving objects.

Sound recorder offers continuous sound recording of up to 2 hours (depending on the amount of free space in memory card and remaining battery life).

Ease of operations

Reduce the size of the photographs, which you have just taken instantly with the Resize on Playback.

Never miss out now on those precious photographic moments now with the Battery Life Indicator.

Enjoy the flexibility of viewing your footages and images upright no matter if you turn your camera horizontally or vertically.

Unlimited Creativity Possibilities

Special Scene Mode: Kids & Pets, Indoor, Sunset (NEW), Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium and Underwater.

My Colors Mode: Vivid, Neutral, Sepia, Black and White, Positive Firm, Lighter Skin Tone, Darker Skin Tone, Vivid Blue, Vivid Green, Vivid Red & Custom Color

Adjustment of contrast, sharpness, saturation, red, green, blue, and skin tone are available

Shoot and Print Direct

Print up to A2 size directly from Canon direct photo printers and any PictBridge compliant printer without PC.

Easy print and transfer of images with just a simple touch of the Print/Share button. Plan what you want to print before you reached home, using the print reservation function.

Exif 2.2 compliant for greater color fidelity when printing to EXIF compatible printers.

Connectivity

High speed USB 2.0 transfer rate.

Direct connectivity and transfer to both Windows (Window 2000 and above) and Mac computers (Mac OSX c10.1.5 and above).

Optional Accessory

Waterproof Casing (WP-DC22)

High Power Flash HF-DC1

source:
http://site-ph.canon-asia.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=digitalcamera&prod_type=ixus80is

This was taken on completely dark room last night in night mode settings with flash

I have to close my eyes (hindi baka ako masilaw sa flash noh)






The other one is taken this morning with Auto flash ON and in my room without light and close window

The left one Flash is turn OFF and no light in the room this morning





















these scenes are taken without a flash on my way to work at Davao River Bridge (Bankerohan) with shaking hands (just wanted to know if I shake my hands in ISO 800 settings will it take good pictures)

I would consider this a birthday gift for myself (^_^)
tagal ko maka decide noh! well better late than never.




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