Canon Digital IXUS 95 IS

Review summary: For the price, the SD1200 packs in the right amount of features for casual photographers. More-experienced photographers will be pleased with the image quality, but the lack of aperture and shutter priority, plus the limited zoom range, may leave them ...

Pros: Compact, slim design; good image quality in automatic mode

Cons: Image quality suffers above ISO 200; viewfinder is too small to actually use

Verdict: The SD1200 IS received a Very Good rating in our lab's jury tests for imaging quality, earning particularly high marks in terms of lack of distortion, color accuracy, and overall exposure quality

Review summary: Announced in February 2009, the Canon Digital IXUS 95, also known as the PowerShot SD1200 IS Digital ELPH in North America, is a 10 Megapixel compact with a 3x image stabilised optical zoom, 2.5in LCD display and an optical viewfinder. It replaces the ...

Pros: Compact, light and stylish.; Decent picture quality.; Small but useful optical viewfinder.; Scene recognition make it easy to use.; Compact, light and stylish.; Decent picture quality.; Small but useful optical viewfinder.; Scene recognition ...

Cons: Basic 3x zoom range.; Tiny optical viewfinder.; Red-eye sometimes a problem; No optical zoom while filming.; Basic 3x zoom range.; Tiny optical viewfinder.; Red-eye sometimes a problem; No optical zoom while filming

Verdict: Continuous shooting is available in Program mode and is activated form the Func menu. The manual says that the IXUS 95 IS / SD1200 IS can shoot 1.4fps in continuous mode and our test matched that figure almost exactly

Review summary: Beautiful, ultra-compact, super-slick and friendly to use, plus great quality. A winning combination from Canon.

Verdict: Simply bring it up close to your subject and the onscreen mode indicator flips over to the macro icon in grin-inducing fashion. Point it elsewhere and, after a second or two, it flips back to standard mode. It's impossible to miss a shot because you ...

Review summary: The Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS is an affordable pocket camera with an interesting variety of shooting modes, excellent image quality, and optical image stabilisation.

Verdict: For the price, the Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS packs in the right amount of features for casual photographers and summer vacationers. More-experienced photographers will be pleased with the image quality, but the lack of aperture and shutter priority, ...