Canon Ixus 80 IS - Expert Reviews

Review summary: How do you make the perfect follow-up to an already excellent camera? It ain't easy. Our current Editors' Choice winner, the Canon PowerShot SD1000 has a new sibling in the SD1100 IS, and not much has changed in the newcomer. The SD1100 IS ups the ...

Pros: Little noise at high ISO settings. Image stabilization. Optical viewfinder. Antireflective LCD

Cons: Function button is flat and hard to find by touch. Wide-angle lens is not as wide as the SD1000's ; Watch the Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS Video Review

Verdict: The PowerShot SD1100 IS adds a few new features to its Editors' Choice predecessor, but the SD1000 still can't be beat in terms of image quality and shooting flexibility.

Review summary: The Canon Ixus 80 IS is a real success as much for its design as its performance. Only the absence of a wide angle zoom deprives this camera of a fifth star.

Award: Recommended!

Review summary: The Canon Powershot SD1100 IS (IXUS 80 IS in Europe) is as fresh off the Canon engineers' drawing boards as it can get. It was announced only a few weeks ago for the PMA trade show in Las Vegas and already has made its way into the basement vault ...

Pros: Very compact body, Decent edge-to-edge sharpness, Clean results at low ISO settings with bright, print-friendly color 'straight out of the box', Accurate and reasonably quick focus (although slightly slower in low light), Good responsiveness and ...

Cons: Battery life when using LCD not brilliant, Slightly underpowered built-in flash, Little manual control, Poor Auto White Balance performance under artificial light, Pretty noisy at any sensitivity above ISO 200 (decent detail retention though), Some ...

Verdict: There are 40 images in the samples gallery.

Review summary: Adding to the camera's versatility is a sharp and fast 3x optical zoom lens (38-114mm equivalent opening up to f/2.8 at wide-angle settings and f/4.9 at telephoto settings). The SD1100 IS also features Canon's advanced Optical Image Stabilization (OIS ...

Verdict: This new PowerShot camera also features the latest and most advanced generation of Canon's Genuine Face Detection technology, thus ensuring that up to nine forward-looking faces in the frame are in focus and properly exposed, with or without flash. In ...

Review summary: We had seen what Canon had prepared in entry level DSLR class as in the compact class. But they have prepared just one more new camera in ultra compact class, new IXUS 80IS aka PowerShot SD1100 IS