Canon Digital IXUS 85 IS Compact Camera - Silver (10 MP, 3x Optical Zoom) 2.5 inch High Resolution PureColor LCD II
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| Price: | £299.00 |
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #14516 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: Canon
- Model: 2603B006AA
- Released on: 2008-03-31
- Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .29 pounds
- Display size: 2.5
Editorial Reviews
Manufacturer's Description
The 10 Megapixel Digital IXUS 85 IS builds on the legacy of Canon’s hugely popular Digital IXUS 70, softening that camera’s sharp minimalism with a distinctive ‘curved square’ design. The glimmering silver skin of the camera is set off by a bold lens ring and edging details in piano key black or silver.
The camera is united by the excellence of Digital IXUS photographic technologies. Combining Motion Detection Technology with optical Image Stabilizer (IS) lenses to keep subject blur and camera shake out of your photographs. The technologies work together to give a comprehensive solution to blur when shooting moving subjects, when using the zoom, and when shooting in low-light conditions. Express your individuality with this new Digital IXUS camera and let Canon’s imaging technology help you get the best results.
| 10.0 Megapixels The number of megapixels determines the amount of sharp detail a digital camera can record. With more megapixels, you can print at larger sizes, plus crop and enlarge without sacrificing quality. IXUS cameras provide all the resolution you need for finely detailed, photo-quality prints with plenty of scope for post-shoot cropping. A full 10.0 megapixels of resolution ensure rich depth and detail, and lets you enlarge and crop images freely. |
![]() | 3X Optical Zoom The camera's Genuine Canon 3x Optical Zoom not only gets you in close, but performs with all the clarity and brilliance you'd expect from the world's leader in advanced optics technology. |
![]() | Optical Image Stabilizer Any slight shake while hand-holding a camera can cause blurred photos. Canon’s optical Image Stabilizer (IS) technology ensures crisp, clear images by detecting and correcting this camera shake. The camera is able to microscopically adjust its own lens with absolute accuracy up to 4,000 times every second, so the image you see is the image you capture. Image Stabilizer is especially useful at full zoom, which exaggerates camera movements, and in low-light settings that call for slower shutter speeds. |
![]() | Motion Detection Technology / High ISO/IS Canon’s Motion Detection Technology uses several methods to detect camera and subject movement and set exposure accordingly. The brightness of subject and background, movement of the subject (based on comparison of frames over time) Face Detection information and camera shake information from the optical Image Stabilizer (IS) gyros are all taken into account. Where motion is detected the camera automatically selects the appropriate ISO level to achieve a shot with minimal noise and zero blur. |
![]() | Face Detection Technology Utilising the power of DIGIC III, Canon’s Face Detection Technology ensures superb people shots by automatically detecting subjects in the frame and setting the correct focus, flash level and exposure. |
![]() | Red Eye Correction This popular feature can now remove red-eye automatically during shooting, as well as in playback mode. |
![]() | DIGIC III The massive processing capacity of DIGIC III paves the way for advanced features such as Face Detection Technology and Red-Eye Correction, while exceptional processing speed delivers outstanding responsiveness, fast and accurate auto focus and extended continuous shooting. Linking all key camera functions for maximum efficiency, all DIGIC processors achieve brilliant image detail, clarity and colour reproduction,while delivering long, high quality movies and more shots from a single charge. |
![]() | 2.5" LCD Screen The camera's 2.5-inch LCD screen gives you the big picture, whether you're shooting, reviewing or showing off your images. This extra-durable, high-resolution screen with tough scratch-resistant coating on the anti-reflective, PureColor LCD II screen offers a crisp, clear picture to make shooting, playback and using the camera's menu functions especially convenient. |
![]() | Sunset Scene Mode “Sunset” is added to the Special Scene Modes. This mode optimizes settings such as exposure and white balance, thereby making it possible to reproduce brilliant sunset shots.
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![]() | 30 FPS VGA Movies Shoot super-smooth, VGA -quality movies with sound. In-camera editing gives you creative control |
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| My Colours Add a personal touch to your image or movie with Canon’s My Colours. Choose from vivid blue for the sky, antique sepia for the portrait or classic black and white for the landscape. These creative options and many more – normally available only on a computer – can be applied directly from your camera, before or after the shot. | ![]() | |
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Customer Reviews
Brilliant little camera with easy-to-use functionality
I bought this camera from Amazon in October 2008, which came with a free case that made the whole package very good value. I am no photo professional, so this camera is perfect for a layperson like myself who just wants to point and shoot! Delivers nice pictures; actually 10 megapixel gives lots of unwanted (!) details on your skin, too.. I am glad I didn't go for the 12 megapixel option, which would be too much for the leisure user (each photo becomes too large in size too, using up your SD card space quickly). Overall, this is an impressively small camera that does everthing it's supposed to do quite nicely. The functionalities are straightforward and easy to use as well.
Excellent camera
This camera is excellent. It is very small and compact but packs a real punch. The image quality is very good (if you don't compare it to a Digital SLR) and it also has pretty good video quality too.
Features worth mentioning are that it also allows you to record video clips for as long as your memory card (and battery) will allow. It also has a funky time lapse video record mode that allows you to record over a long period of time and have a short video clip at the end of it. Very fun to play with.
The image stability makes a noticable difference to image quality, especially in lower light conditions so definitely get a camera with it on if you can.
The battery life I would consider 'very good' but not excellent. It did run out on me when recording a two hour long time lapse clip, but it had been used a bit before that too. To conserve power it turns the screen off when using this feature so they have clearly thought it through.
This is a very competent camera with a lot of positive features and I can't really say anything bad about it.
canon IXUS 85 IS Compact Camera
A brilliant camera packed full of features. A shame that the hand book does not detail all the feature for handy reference. However features are fully explained on CD. Was not worth getting the old camera repaired for the price of this one. Would highly recommend this product.

















