Canon IXUS i5 / Canon PowerShot SD20

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Canon IXUS i5 / Canon PowerShot SD20

Features of the Canon IXUS i5 / Canon PowerShot SD20:

• Ultra sleek body in 4 colours
• 5.0 Megapixel sensor
• VGA movies with sound
• 3cm Macro mode
• 9-point AiAF
• DIGIC and iSAPS
• PictBridge/Direct Print compatible
• Print/Share button
• 5 scene modes
• CANON iMAGE GATEWAY

Canon IXUS i5 / Canon PowerShot SD20 reviews

Average rating from 1 review:

Reviewed by Edwin from The Netherlands on 10th Aug 2005
Well, I have the camera for over a week now and tested a lot. As you see, the camera overall got 4 stars. Bought it to have it always with me (for the case I don't want to bring out my Nikon D70). You might know well image quality is important to me. The Canon satisfies me. Not as sharp as the images from my Nikon, but more than average from all the other (super)compacts. The fixed lens (40mm) is propably the cause here for. I really was looking for a camera with a fixed lens because you can take faster photo's and don't have to worry about zooming. Although the camera weighs only 140 gram the camera feels very solid. The lens is very small, but has an aperture of f2.8! The tiny lens makes me able to experiment so I can hold small lenses for it (for creative effect) and I even can put the lens for my oculair of my binoculairs (swarovski SLC 10*42W) and still get good image quality! Noise can be present at 200 and 400 iso, but is reasonable and near my opinion nice and useful (for grainy effect). In some occasions you can notice purple friging and red eyes, but mostly you can't notice it. The camera is easy to operate. The LCD is not large (1,5"), but from a good quality and even with this LCD I find it is more comfortable to compose the image with the LCD of the Canon than looking through the viewfinder of my Nikon SLR (causes me sometimes a headache). Accupower is very reasonable, but always buy a second accu! One minor point: when the camera is in autoISO mode, I cannot see, when reviewing the image on the camera, what ISO was taken. Not possible or still have to find out. Overall it is a super "supercompact". Go for it!
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