Canon Digital IXUS 80 IS / PowerShot SD1100 IS Expert Reviews

We have analyzed the reviews for the Canon Digital IXUS 80 IS / PowerShot SD1100 IS using our BETA review analysis. These are our findings: The Canon Digital IXUS 80 IS is fantastic. People are excited about the photos, video mode, and long battery life. Buy this digital camera with confidence.

extraordinary battery life, brilliant color, exceptional display, excellent ease of use, first-class features, excellent memory cards, top-quality photo color quality, fantastic photos, brilliant portability, extraordinary price, first-class video mode, first-class zoom.

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The Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS follows up on its predecessor by adding optical image stabilization and a little more resolution, bringing the total to 8 megapixels. The SD1100 also aims to be trendier than before with its compact body and availability in s...

Trendy, compact camera, Wide views on LCD, Image stabilization, Cool picture effects, Fast, accurate face detection

Weak, poorly-placed flash, Tiny controls, Poor handling, Slow 1.3 fps Burst mode, Flimsy battery door

The Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS makes quite a fashion statement with its multiple color offerings and body that is so compact it could get lost in your pocket. This Digital Elph makes some common sacrifices that all compact cameras make: handling isn't very...

The Canon Powershot SD1100 IS represents its series with good all-around performance without standing out in any way. It produces nice images with consumer-oriented color, bright print-ready exposure and is quite fast and responsive. There is nothing seri...

Nicely saturated colors, Accurate but bright exposure system, Fast and responsive, Good focusing speed, Great LCD visibility, Easy to use interface

Poor white-balance under artificial lighting, Above average image noise above ISO 200, Chromatic aberrations, Corner softness, Weak flash, Poor battery life

At the start of the millennium, Canon's original Digital IXUS cameras were the super models of the digital compact world; looking as good as they performed, their popularity seemed a sure bet. But time has moved on, rivals have got slimmer, smaller and mo...

The Canon Digital IXUS 80 IS can perhaps best be summed up as an undemanding snapper for the unpretentious imagemaker â?? and as such is largely beyond criticism, save for some fiddly controls inherent in a camera with a height and width (if not depth) eq

The Canon SD1100 IS Digital ELPH includes an eight megapixel 1/2.5" CCD imager and a Canon-branded 3x optical zoom lens with image stabilization, which covers a fairly standard range of 38-114mm equivalent -- a moderate wide angle to a moderate telephoto

Exposure is fully automatic, but the user can tweak it with 2.0EV of exposure compensation and four metering modes to handle difficult lighting, including a mode which ties metering to the camera's face detection system

A fast and attractive camera that offers pretty good image quality for the price.

Classy, stylish design, Fast start-up and shot-to-shot, Good image stabilization

Slightly dull colors, Couldn't keep up with fast action shots, Some softness at corners of images

Like the many Canon Digital ELPH's before it, the SD1100 is an attractive pocket camera that's easy to use and feels great in your hand. Though its image quality was only slightly above average, the SD1100 consistently produced appealing images on our tes...

Sleek design, superb image capability and intuitive controls make the SD1100 a solid buy.

Fast start-up, focus, and shutter, Maximum aperture of f2.8

Lacks a true wide-angle lens, Hard-to-find manual features

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The PowerShot SD1100 IS Digital ELPH ($249) is the long-awaited follow-up to Canon's PowerShot SD1000, which was one of the most popular ultra-compact cameras of the last few years. The SD1100 has several significant improvements over the SD1000, includin...

Very good photo quality (in good light) Stylish, ultra-compact metal body; comes in five colors Optical image stabilization Snappy performance Sharp 2.5" LCD has good outdoor and low light visibility Optical viewfinder (a rarity these days) Redeye not a...

Noisy images in low light; some NR artifacting at low ISOs in good light Corner blurriness and purple fringing an issue Zoom setting not shown on LCD Flash a little slow to charge More manual controls would be nice Flimsy door over memory card/battery com...

The PowerShot SD1100 Digital ELPH is known as the Digital IXUS 80 IS in some countries

This really is an aim-and-forget camera so if going manual in any way is on your plate, look elsewhere..

8-megapixel; 3x zoom; OIS

Limited manual adjustments