Canon IXUS 870 IS / PowerShot SD880 IS / IXY 920 IS Expert Reviews

The Canon IXUS 870 IS is a 10 megapixel digital camera with a 4x wide angle lens. It is available in silv...

With the lens zoom in to about two thirds of its capacity sharpness is well above average. Not only can the inpidual bricks be seen clearly the shot stays sharp right up to the edges

Can Canon's latest ultra-compact IXUS 870 IS regain the market lead?

Build quality, performance, image quality

Handling, price

A well made and attractive camera with excellent performance, useful zoom range, outstandingly good LCD monitor and superb image quality. A little light on features, but the only real downsides are its slightly awkward handling and the relatively high ...

If you're after a compact camera that produce good quality images then take a look at Canon's PowerShot SD880 IS. It's 10-megapixel chip and 4x optical zoom produce high quality shots for a reasonable price.

Optical image stabilization ; very good photo quality ; sturdy and compact design

No optical viewfinder ; flash a little harsh

Canon's PowerShot SD880 IS is a compact point and shoot digital camera. Part of Canon's Digital Elph family, the camera shoots 10-megapixel photos, has 4x optical zoom, and supports ISO settings up to 3,200. The "IS" designation at the end of the name ...

Canon is trying to regain its market lead with some impressive new cameras, like this great 10MP ultra-compact

The Canon IXUS 870 IS is a stylish compact digital camera. It will fit into larger pockets. Picture quality is very good indeed. The design and build quality of the camera also stands out too. The IXUS 870 IS has 10 megapixels, a 4x wide angle zoom ...

Design - picture quality - build quality - start up time

Nothing really springs to mind

I like the IXUS 870 IS. It performed well in my tests and I found very few points where the camera struggled. This is a reliable camera that should take good quality snapshots in most situations. It looks good and was very fast to turn on and take a ...

Canon's PowerShot SD880 IS is a compact point-and-shoot digital camera.

If you're looking for a good quality point-and-shoot camera. consider the Canon PowerShot SD880 IS. It's easy to use and small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, while delivering high-resolution photos with great colour and detail.

THIS camera will suit users looking for a unit with a wide-angle lens, a big screen and good image quality.

Sharp shots, minimal chromatic aberration, wide-angle lens, 3" display

Some minor noise issues

A strong all-purpose compact camera, Canon's IXUS 870 IS will suit users looking for a unit with a wide-angle lens, a big screen and good image quality.

Superb design, excellent picture quality, and a wide-angle lens make the SD880 IS a divine travel companion.

With a street price of about $270, the SD880's primary wide-angle competitors are the Nikon Coolpix S600 and S610, as well as the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX37. The specs on those cameras and on the SD880 IS are nearly identical, but one significant ...

This is a 10 megapixel camera with a 28-112mm (film equivalent) zoom lens, which is image stabilised. There is a 75mm LCD screen but no optical viewfinder. Construction quality is superb. Face area is slightly larger than a credit card and it is 20mm ...

The most striking thing about this camera is its appearance. If there were a beauty contest for cameras the Ixus 870is would be a shoo-in. Focus is generally quick and accurate with good sharpness and resolution. Exposure and white balance are just OK ...

There is some noise visible at ISO200, but generally it is well controlled without too much obvious noise reduction. Images straight from the camera are a little soft but we found that they responded to sharpening in Photoshop. However any sharpening ...

We like this camera because of its superb design and construction, and we found that by sticking with an ISO setting of 80-100 we could get excellent results. Even at ISO400 the pictures are acceptable for standard size prints.

Replacing the Ixus 860 IS, Canon's new Ixus 870 IS features the new DiG!C 4 image processor and a slightly larger imaging chip with 10-megapixel (effective) resolution. The weight of the two camera bodies is the same but the new model is slightly ...

The test camera produced images that were sharp and bright with natural-looking colours and slightly elevated contrast and saturation. Autofocusing was fast and mostly accurate, although we sometimes had to set the AF frame to centre and the frame ...