Product Description

Elegantly designed with an all-metal finish, the Digital IXUS 55 is slender enough to slip into your pocket. A powerful 5.0 Megapixel CCD sensor delivers photo quality prints up to A3 size with room to spare for post-shoot cropping. An ultra-high refracti

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30462 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Canon
• Model: 0319B004AA
• Released on: 2005-08-23
• Dimensions: 1.98 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Elegantly designed with an all-metal finish, the Digital IXUS 55 is slender enough to slip into your pocket. A powerful 5.0 Megapixel CCD sensor delivers photo quality prints up to A3 size with room to spare for post-shoot cropping. An ultra-high refractive index aspherical (UA) 3x optical zoom lens delivers crystal-clear performance in an exceptionally compact form.

The Digital IXUS 55's DIGIC II image processor ensures fast, responsive camera performance and superbly rendered colours. iSAPS analyses each scene and optimises key camera settings even before a shot is taken. The result is immediate high quality images. An extra large 2.5" LCD brings pleasure to framing and reviewing your creations. The monitor's wide viewing angle provides improved visibility for sharing playback with friends and family. QuickBright gives instant screen brightness in bright outdoor conditions. Night Display automatically improves visibility in low light for easy night shooting. You can choose from 15 shooting modes to get that perfect shot. Seven preset Special Scene Modes help achieve great results in tricky lighting conditions.

My Colors allows special in-camera colour effects to be applied to images and movies in real time. You can make extra-long (up to 1GB in size*) 30fps VGA quality movie clips with full audio, and view them with friends and family on the large LCD or connect to a TV for full screen playback. Record fast action sequences at 60fps QVGA quality and analyse them in sharp slow motion.

Printing with the Digital IXUS 55 is a breeze. Simply connect your camera to any PictBridge compatible printer and push the Print/Share button for a full colour print within seconds. Connect to a Canon SELPHY CP Series printer and take advantage of advanced print functions, such as printing ID photos and stills from your movies. Transfer images to your PC quickly and effortlessly with the ultra quick USB 2.0 Hi-Speed connection. Canon's ZoomBrowser EX (Windows) and ImageBrowser (Macintosh) are included for editing and organising photos, movies and slide shows. CANON iMAGE GATEWAY** provides 100MB of web space for sharing your photos online.

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Customer Reviews

Versatile compact must have, high quality performance camera
I've had Canon Ixus 55 for half a year now. It's quite incredible what this little camera does. The pictures are crystal clear, the big display makes it easy to view them and re-take in case you are not satisfied with them.

The design is good and user friendly. The menu is easy to read and there are not many things that will make you ponder about what they mean. It's truly easy to use and gives a great result.

The wide array of modes, possibilities of adjusting exposure times, ISO, white balance, flash, red-eye reduction, and many more things, make this a smart gadget appropriate to use in most settings imaginabe - even under water, with appropriate casing!

For a truly comfortable use I suggest buying a second battery and at 512MB SD card. (I have 1G, but can never fill it up, although I take high quality poctures).

There are some minor details though, that I wish would be improved in the following models:

- the button to switch between view, play and record modes does not seem to fit into the rest of the design - although it is functioning properly, it seems that it is not of the same quality as the rest of the casing
- there is no indicator for the batery except a red battery sign when the battery is near empty. This is not a major thing, but some people like to know all the time.
- flash is a bit too powerful almost most of the time, but this is easy to fix with the exposure time adjustement.

All in all, this is an amaizing value for money and an excellent buy. It is a camera that fits in your pocket so you can take it with you wherever you go and capture the moments you'd otherwise forget. Highly recommended.

IXUS 55 6 months down the line...
I was very pleased with the camera upon purchase but I thought it would be useful to give you guys an idea of how well it performs after 6 months use.

1. The camera starts to look very tatty very quickly picking up scratches to the metal - esk casing and buttons/switches loosing their coating all together. This is wear and tear even with using the case, which I bought separateley (the proper cannon case) which also turns this small nifty camera into a bulky item.

2.Switching betwwen camera/movie/view mode is now very difficult to do as the switch for this is now sticking on movie. very annoying.

3. only really produces good pictures on standard view. Try zooming and this camera has had it even on the optical zoom, but trying to digitally zoom is pointless - your pictures will not come out how you may have expected.

4.has started making a weird clunking noise when turning off and retracting the zoom lens.

5.does not perform well on night shots.

I wish I had read somthing like this before buying, it may have convinced me to go for a slighlty more expensive camera. Do not buy it thinking it is pro - ish just because it's a Cannon, it's nowhere near that, it is a fun, cheap camera that's great for taking shots on the spur of the moment and capturing some great memories reasonably well.

WOW
Others have summed this product up well, but I would just like to add a couple of things;

1) Actually, it does have shutter priority (Im soooo happy about this), in take picture mode, people just need to read the manual better! In take picture mode, go 'menu' then scroll down to 'long shutter', change to yes, then exit menu, and go func>manual settings mode (one of the first options), then go down ONE to exposure, and press menu to set how many seconds shutter is open...

2) This camera is mind blowing. I nearly bought a bigger more expensive one to get more features, but decided i had to get this because it's so small, so i actually can use it everyday... Imagine my joy when I recieve it, and find it has every feature/setting i could ever want! Im so happy.