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Canon Digital IXUS 85 IS Compact Camera - Black (10 MP, 3x Optical Zoom) 2.5 inch High Resolution PureColor LCD II
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| Price: | £179.00 |
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #19068 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: Canon
- Model: 2602B006AA
- 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
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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. Available in Black or Silver. |
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 | IXUS 85 IS Highlights |
 | 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 |
| Additional Features |
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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
Great Camera
I had a Casio Exilim before and hated it (the night pictures were awful and the flash was random) and a Sony Cybershot before that (you could make a cup of tea in the time it took to actually take the shot).
I bought this camera about a year ago and it has never disappointed. It takes clean shots everytime I use it, wherever and whenever I take a picture. I am a serious novice at using cameras, setting the flash on and off and maybe the quality of the picture is about as much setting up as I can muster. A great click and point camera. I can't comment on its professional capacity as I wouldn't have a clue. Oh yes, another thing that is great about this camera is that it takes shots very quickly and the face tracking feature is really neat. Its well built, feels solid and looks great too.
A lovely piece of kit
I am delighted with this camera. I had been fretting for some time about buying a suitably compact digital camera to replace my Konica Minolta Dimage (only 3 megapixels) which I had thought a great design. This Canon is it. Not only is it beautifully designed, it is easy to use (yet has sufficient features to keep the geeks among us content), produces wonderfully high-definition (10 megapixel) pictures, and is small enough to go comfortably in your pocket.
At the time of writing (September) I'm also impressed with the battery - I bought the camera in August, have been (as you can imagine) playing with it frequently to see what it can do, have taken easily 200 pictures including a fair number with flash, and a little video - but haven't yet had to recharge the battery after its initial charge on the day I received it.
Good pocket camera
I just got this camera and tried it with some test shots.
This is a pocket camera for point and shoot situations. It is not for pro-photographers, so if you are one of those you will be disappointed. If you are looking for more control you are better off buying something like the Powershot G9.
*It has very quick start-up.
*Build quality is excellent also feels quite heavy so you know you are holding it!
*Image quality is good with flash or ample light. In low-light conditions, performance degrades a bit.
*High ISO performance (above 300) not so good, but you would expect that from a pocket camera.
*Macro mode for close up shots is excellent.
*Image stabilization (IS) is excellent.
*The box comes with everything you will need, just a separate SD card purchase is needed.
The reason I give it 4 stars is that I did not feel it had any extra (special) features in terms of picture quality or zoom over its siblings (IS 80 for eg) which have lower price. So you are mostly paying extra for the fact that it is a cannon and it is very compact and pretty plus the few extra megapixels.
Also low-light performance is poor. The face detection gets messed up in low-light and the flash is so powerful that people come up with red-eyes or closed eyes. Skin tones also come up unusually red and unnatural with flash.
Overall, good for taking pictures when there is plenty of light. With flash though expect not-so-good results.
