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: #11155 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Canon
• Model: 0319B004AA
• Released on: 2005-08-23
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.89 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

Small camera, small price, and high quality!
I have had the camera for more than one year now and I am very happy with the pictures that I have shot. I am not a wizard with technology so I just tend to point and shoot. Most of the time the shots will be of a really high quality.

The zoom function is really user friendly, as is the switching between picture shots and video recording.

The battery life is good. Recharging the small canon battery is easy, and makes the camera lighter and less bulky than otherwise. A 1GB memory card will store hundreds of pictures, and a good few minutes of video.

A great camera that fits in my pocket and is quite light. I would buy it again but this one continues to work great. (I would advise buying a 2GB memory card, with a 1GB as aback up. Plus buy another battery to avoid disappointment when the other one runs out just when you need it most because you forgot to recharge it.)

Excellent!
Didn't have a clue about these things before I got one, I just knew I wanted one. Bought this after a reccomendation from a friend and it is brilliant.
It takes EXCELLENT pictures, and a decent memory card can hold about 130approx pics. If you want to do vid's then get a big mem card, but they ain't that expensive and the quality both pic and sound is amazing. and the best thing is you can upload everything onto your PC and send em to yer pals.
it's an excellent buy for a very good price.

So good, I bought two of them...
This camera is fantastic. The pictures it takes are awesome and the videos are great as well - it's amazing how much you can fit onto a 2GB SD card - that's over a thousand of the highest quality images and several minutes of video. There's too many settings to use on this thing - all I really play with is the Night Snapshot view (improves nighttime images of buildings and suchlike), the flash and the default setting. It's so tiny that it can easily fit into a shirt pocket or combats pocket.

It starts up, and is ready to take an image, in no time at all. The screen is clear and bright and big enough to get a good look at even when holding it above your head, trying to get that interesting angle on your target.

What's the only really poor thing about this camera? Well, it'd be really nice to have a good optical zoom on it - but they're all the same these days - hard to find anything about 3x, but this tries to get to 12x with a 3x optical and 4x digital - be prepared for nothing to look good at that level of zoom though.

It is a sturdy little thing - with a reassuringly tough all metal casing - but I would still recommend you getting a soft leather bag with drawstring to carry it around.

StitchAssist software is excellent too. Well, I mean that it's very simple to use and I have managed to get excellent results from using it. I took a 5 image panorama and StichAssist pulled them all together really well, I only had to do a little bit of manual tweaking on one join... and that took about a minute. I now have an excellent panoramic image that people have had a really close look at - they think it's brilliant.

For the panoramas, I will be getting myself a little tripod too.

As for Support, register with Canon and they'll look after you. I got some piece of dust caught in the camera somehow - it wasn't on the lense, and it wasn't on the screen - somewhere inside... well Canon allowed me to send it off for repair - 10 days later it was back - fully repaired and free of charge. Can't say fairer than that.