Canon IXUS 80 IS / PowerShot SD1100 IS / IXY 20 IS Expert Reviews

Last year's retro-minimalist Canon PowerShot SD1000 got rave reviews from both professional camera reviewers and ordinary consumers because it delivered everything an ultracompact digicam could reasonably be expected to provide.

Good image quality ; Image stabilization ; Robust build quality

Chromatic aberration ; Zoom not as sharp as the SD1000's ; Battery life could be better

What made the SD1000 unique in a flood of generally competent but mostly uninspired mini-cams was not its old school style or its flashy collection of features, but its proficiency and dependability as a digital image-maker

Released in March 2008, the Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS is a sleek, sexy point-and-shoot. Many people like to match their personality to their digital camera, and the Canon SD1100 does not disappoint, with interesting color options like Bohemian Brown ...

The SD1100 is very similar to its sibling camera, the PowerShot SD750, with one large exception - the SD1100 shrinks the size of the LCD by half an inch to include a rarity on modern point-and-shoots: an optical viewfinder. It's super tiny, though, ...

The Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS is an 8 megapixel point and shoot digital elph camera with a 3x optical zoom lens. It features Image stabilization, 2.5 inch LCD, long exposure mode (up to 15 seconds) and an ISO range of 80 to 1600. It will come in ...

Released in March 2008, the Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS is a sleek, sexy point-and-shoot. Many people like to match their personality to their digital camera, and the Canon SD1100 does not disappoint, with interesting color options like Bohemian Brown ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

- 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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