Compare Prices : Canon Digital IXUS 700 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: Canon wins very high marks with this tiny camera.

Pros: Incredibly small ; wonderful picture quality

Cons: Relatively short-lived proprietary battery ; expensive

Pros: Excellent image quality.Accurate metering.15-second maximum exposure time allows for night photography.Good ergonomic design.Very fast to operate.Solid and high quality construction.

Cons: Wide angle images slightly less sharp than others.No full Manual mode.Lack of indication for aperture and shutter speed on the monitor.

Review summary: The Canon Digital IXUS 700 / SD500 features a Canon 3x optical zoom lens, a 7.2 megapixel sensor, and a large 2" screen (the newer IXUS 750 features a 2.5" screen). The IXUS 700 is available from around £275 | $396, making the IXUS 700 decent value ...

Pros: Very good colour Very good image quality (exposure / auto white balance good) Custom white balance Good movie modes Quick switch on time, shutter response and shot to shot time 'My Colours' adds some fun and potentially useful creative features Very ...

Cons: Doesn't display shutter / aperture speed (in playback or photo mode) USB/AV Cover difficult to open Purple fringing noticable Slightly soft images

Verdict: The 7 megapixel Canon Digital IXUS 700 is a very good digital camera. The easy to use camera is capable of very good results, although there is some purple fringing and images are slightly soft. The camera gives you a lot of options, such as 'my ...

Review summary: A very well-designed, 7-megapixel snapshot camera. Just don't look for advanced controls.

Pros: Very well designed ; the best start-up time in its class ; quick shot-to-shot performance ; novel, fast frame-rate movie mode

Cons: More frequent than usual purple fringing ; longish flash shot-to-shot times

Review summary: is a 7 megapixel digital camera with a 3x zoom - 37~111mm film equivalent. The lens is reasonably fast at wide angle - f2.8, falling to f4.9 at maximum telephoto

Pros: The IXUS700, like its competitors in this price range, seems to be so fast in its responses that we may be able to say that shutter lag is now just a bad memory. We had no trouble capturing the decisive moment.

Cons: Picture noise is obvious at ISO400. This is no doubt a consequence of squeezing 7 million light receptors onto a small area sensor. The noise effect can be tamed with noise reduction software, but it is still a nuisance. ISO400 is not particularly ...

Verdict: Once again dpexpert is impressed with the construction quality and picture taking ability of a small, highly automated camera. The IXUS700 is the sort of camera that can be easily carried everywhere and be ready in a second to snap the once-in-a ...