Canon IXUS 220 HS Black

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But most of us will be looking dead centre at our subject, which is generally well-exposed and crisp. To make picture taking easy, there is Smart Auto which selected from a total of 32 different scenes. Video quality is good, with decent sharpness, although you cannot use the optical zoom while filming.

For videographers, there's the ability to record slow motion clips, by virtue of either filming at 320x240 pixels at 240fps, or standard definition 640x480 pixels at 120fps. The 120mm telephoto won’t get you close enough for sports or wildlife (other than at the zoo), but it is long enough to get you close to moderately distant action and for tight framing on candid shots. This positioning means that when holding the camera in both hands there's the danger of the forefinger of the left hand part obscuring the flash.Whilst the right hand side of the camera, if viewed from the back, features the output ports and a lug for attaching a strap, the opposite flank of the camera is devoid of features entirely. In Smart Auto mode the ELPH 300 HS / IXUS 220 HS uses scene detection to determine the best exposure. Switch on Movie Digest and the camera will capture up to 4 seconds before a shot is taken and join them all together to create a single VGA movie. I doubt that it has much practical application and in fact it marks easily, but I loved the feel of it and it’s one of those things that makes a product attactive and desirable for no real practical reason.

AF performance is very good for a compact of this class, locking on with ease and rarely hunting, if at all and the focus-tracking AF mode works well, though don’t expect too much from it. Combine documents such as PDFs and image files onto one page on your Windows computer before printing. From the front the IXUS 220 HS appears friendly and approachable in its simplicity, its lens, retracted within the body when not in use, dominating proceedings, top right of which is a narrow window for the integral flash, with tiny AF assist/self timer lamp peeking out below. Portable, all-in one PowerShot and IXUS cameras ranging from expert creative compacts to superzooms and easy point and shoot options.I’m not going to produce noise and colour tests for the camera, nor am I going to list the various functions and features of the camera.

In my opinion, this camera handles low-light situations very good - but only in the manual mode (Program, P), and when the user gains a bit of a felling what settings to use and when.HD Digital Frame is a great way to put your portfolio on display and a great way to surface forgotten memories. frames per second burst mode at full resolution, full 1080p HD movie recording with stereo sound and a HDMI port, and a 2.

When recording video the screen display narrows, black bands cropping it top and bottom to provide a 16:9 widescreen aspect. Whilst finding Full HD on a budget model is both surprising and welcome, so too is the fact that stereo sound is offered, via two microphones lurking beneath adjacent pin pricks on the camera's top plate. Though the rear screen isn’t the largest or the highest resolution, it does the job, allowing you to assess detail after you’ve taken the shot, and compose with relative ease. Elsewhere we enjoyed the camera's impressive high-speed burst mode of 8 frames per second, however were slightly disappointed that these were delivered at a maximum resolution of just 3MP.If you want to shoot in the best quality 720p mode for the Miniature effect you have to first change the still photo aspect ratio to 16:9.