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Canon Digital IXUS 100 IS Digital Camera - Silver (12.1 MP, 3.0x Optical Zoom) 2.5" LCD
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| List Price: | £299.00 |
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #626 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: Canon
- Model: 3592B006AA
- Released on: 2009-03-20
- Dimensions: .25 pounds
- Display size: 2.5
Features
- Canon Digital Camera Ixus 100 Silver
• Canon Ixus 100 IS 12.2 MP digital camera• Features 3x optical zoom with IS; smart auto mode with scene detection technology; DIGIC 4; motion detection and face detection technologies; 2.5 inch LCD scre
Editorial Reviews
Manufacturer's Description
Canon IXUS 100 IS
Intelligent Digital IXUS, slim style.
The elegant Digital IXUS 100 IS delivers exceptional style in an ultra slim metallic form. Featuring a 3.0x optical zoom with optical image stabilisation for blur free images, it incorporates a host of intelligent Canon technologies including Smart Auto Mode, so you can simply and easily create stunning pictures across a wide range of shooting conditions. What's more you can quickly and easily capture superb HD movie clips.
Exceptionally slender
With its ultra-slim metallic form, the Digital IXUS 100 IS takes digital camera design to new heights of elegance. Its combination of supremely slender profile and high performance is achieved by a combination of Canon technologies, including two special glass-molded UA lenses.
 Advance Scene Detection Technology gets the best from difficult shootng conditions. Click here for a larger image |
Intelligent by design for the perfect image
Setting the Digital IXUS 100 IS to Smart Auto mode allows the camera to intelligently select the appropriate settings so you can concentrate on your subject. Advanced Scene Detection Technology automatically analyses shooting conditions then selects the perfect settings from 18 specially defined scenes So whether you're photographing flowers, a captivating sunset or friends in the park you can be confident you're getting the perfect image.
 Connect to your HD television using the HDMI cable for instant HD playback. Click here for a larger image |
HD movies
You can create smooth, high quality, movies in High Definition, which you can view and share with friends on the camera's bright 2.5 inch� PureColor LCD II screen. Or you can connect, using an optional mini HDMI cable, for playback on HD TV with no loss of quality. Either way you and your friends will be amazed by the results.
Flawless Detection Technology
Evolved Face Detection and Motion Detection technology finds and tracks moving subjects until you're ready to shoot, adjusting the camera settings for optimal results. Faces will have natural-looking skin tones and and additional Blink Detection lets you avoid the disappointment of mis-timed people shots by displaying an alert if a person in the frame has their eyes closed. A Face Detection Self-Timer also makes group photos and self-portraits easy. Once the shot has been set up, the camera records the number of faces detected in the frame when the shutter is depressed and the self timer started - it then waits for an extra face to get in the frame and adjusts focus and exposure before it takes the picture. Auto Red-Eye detection completes the detection technology collection to ensure flawless photos every time.
A world of advantages with Canon technology
 The Optical Image Stabiliser automatically detects and corrects camera shake. Click here for a larger image |
Rich razor-sharp images - every time
The lens is the most important part of any imaging device and all Canon cameras incorporate lenses designed and manufactured by Canon - lenses based on over 60 years of experience for outstanding results. Canon's market-leading Optical Image Stabiliser is a lens-shift system that automatically detects and corrects camera shake, whilst ensuring outstanding image quality. It allows handheld shooting at longer focal lengths and in lower light conditions without blur, giving you steady, crisp, brilliant images you'll be proud to shoot and share. Developed initially for Canon's EOS Digital SLR cameras it is the fastest in-lens image stabiliser available on the market and ensures the stylish Digital IXUS range has a top quality pedigree.
The 3x optical zoom lets you get up close and personal, whether you are shooting landscapes or a child's smile the straight optical paths deliver razor-sharp precision with lifelike colour every time.
Meanwhile a resolution of 12.1 Megapixels allows you to capture every scene in rich detail, ensuring oversize prints - even of cropped pictures - retain high image quality.
 Canon's Intelligent Contrast Correction automatically adjusts for the best image. Click here for a larger image |
Fast, intelligent processing even in tricky lighting conditions
Canon’s most advanced image processor, DIGIC 4, lies at the heart of every Canon digital camera and delivers exceptional processing speeds. It also makes possible the camera's intelligent evolved Face and Object Detection technologies and Canon's i-Contrast feature. This offers improved contrast and greater detail in tricky lighting conditions. Available in either shooting or playback mode, i-Contrast analyses a scene, then boosts brightness in dark areas without blowing out light areas, while the noise reduction function of DIGIC 4 ensures minimal noise in the adjusted areas. This helps uncover previously hidden detail in the shadow areas of an image.
Customize and correct colour as you shoot
My Colors Mode lets you customise colour reproduction before shooting and correct individual colours on the LCD screen as you're shooting. My Colors offer you many options, such as 'Positive Film' which makes all the reds, greens and blues really vivid; Lighter and Darker Skin tones; 'Colour Accent' that allows you to retain a single colour in your image whilst the other colours turn monochrome and even a 'Colour Swap' where you can select one colour and replace it with another colour you specify for special effects. Since they work with both still images and movies, these modes let you enjoy producing various image or movie effects.
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Customer Reviews
Canon Ixus 100 IS
Canon Digital IXUS 100 IS Digital Camera - Silver (12.1 MP, 3.0x Optical Zoom) 2.5" LCD
This is a superb camera for a non-professional user like myself who is seeking to produce top quality pictures. It is extremely small and light, sliding into the pocket when a larger camera would be an encumbrance. The quality of video recording is amazingly good, giving crisp, clear, full screen footage and sound when transferred to a PC. The software is easy to install and use and is very intuitive so there is little need to consult the manual if you have used a digital camera before.
An excellent, tiny camera for general use, with amazing video performance
First of all, this camera is VERY small - it's an ultra compact compact - and you really can take it anywhere at no inconvenience and when you unpack it from the box you'll probably think 'this is even smaller than I thought' I think this is because the corners are so smoothly rounded it feels tiny!
Secondly, it has an excellent auto mode and a good face recognition AF system. The menu's are nicely laid out and it's intuitive. The auto white balance is generally very good, and it takes great snapshots. I particularly like the way that with one button press in auto mode you can bring up exposure compensation and that the EV scale then stays there until you put it away again - this is superb especially when shooting into the light (a notorious way to confuse the metering with any camera!)
Please don't be fooled by the 'megapixel' wars though - all these latest compacts have a tiny sensor and the result is that although the photo's are physically 'large' in terms of their overall size they are not comparable to a professional or SLR camera in terms of detail and file quality. (This is not a Canon-only issue, of course - you can't get full frame performance in something so small you lose it in your pocket!)
The lens is OK, although it's a shame it does not have an F2.8 setting (having said that the low light performance with no flash is still quite good, because the higher ISO performance is good -at ISO400 and 800 you get good compensation for the lens' lack of a really wide aperture!)
I was particularly drawn to the fact that this camera has a proper optical viewfinder, since I am able to hold steady and frame shots better using the camera up to my eye than with an LCD, but the sheer tiny size of it makes it less of an advantage than I had expected - it's kind of recessed into the curved top and you have to press the camera into your face quite a bit to see!
The real strength of this camera is its video mode. It is quite simply astonishing. I mean - basically this is a HD video camcorder in a tiny camera body! We got the camera as a take anywhere alternative to my professional camera and with a young son the video side of things is very important to us -the movie mode on this does not disappoint - I was blown away!
Overall I'm really impressed and the camera does exactly what I wanted of it, but if your list of requirements is stills first movies second I would not recommend it, instead pointing you at the non HD video versions from Canon which have better photo taking abilities. As an alternative if you wanted a non Canon product you could also look at the Sony DSC-W300 which loses HD video but gains a Zeiss F2.8 lens which is very likely to give it the edge as a camera.
What a little gem
This is really compact and it 'does do what it says on the tin' Have found it really easy to use and it takes great pictures on auto mode,this is the easy to use mode, just point and shoot. I print many of the pictures taken and the quality of the pictures this camera produces is second to none. It has too many functions to mention here but I have tried many of them with great success. The camera is light and slim great for taking about with you either on holiday or just a day out, fits more than comfortably into a pocket, so no bulk to carry. Highly reccomended.
