About the appearance and processing is debatable, but I think that they in no way acts like a cheap plastic part. It is light, small and fits comfortably in your hand, and I am almost of the opinion that big men hands could possibly have their problems. Here, however, as well as a minor complaint. The Canon Ixus 155 is one again with the compact cameras that are suitable for left-handed rather for right. Handed snapshots can unfortunately make bad, because the hand is covering the display almost entirely.
Macro shooting succeed surprisingly well (see picture), even at very short distance from the subject. The zoom is impressive, 10x, expandable to 40x. The fact that the image quality decreases and the noise increases, although it is clear, yet the resolution is still very good and positive aspect. But here also, as with all cameras, the better the natural light (ergo outside, sunshine etc), the better the image.
But indoors also succeed quite well, thanks to the many features that the camera has to offer. In addition to the automatic setting that detects the respective scene by itself and makes the optimum setting by itself, can be determined in the live setting yourself which scene with which light is present, what the final image clearly better than does the auto function. Even brightness, color, contrast, and ISO, red eyes and image stabilizer are adjustable, as is the image size, date, and a choice of single or continuous shooting mode, and self-timer with different trigger times.
Some playful features such as Toy Camera, Miniature Effect, Fisheye etc are also available, which is the odd creative photographers surely love. In addition, the menu has a helper function that simply explains each setting and even gives tips to help one or the other, perhaps even a bit. The menu structure itself I found sometimes a bit irritating and I also have a "Back" button missing, which brings me back on the menu again. But unfortunately not in all menu areas that had mostly been described directly in the menu, it is possible.
WiFi there is not, so you his pictures not the same can be downloaded from the camera to the PC. And what also bothered me a bit was the glossy display, the first, uncanny reflected in strong sunshine and secondly hardly be a chance to see the photos taken outside to look again, see problem as with most mobile phones.
Another thing that bothered me was that the release button very often went a little hard to press. That is not difficult in the sense of fixed but through the intermediate step of focusing one often missed the right time for the shutter, so I have the one or other snapshot is slipped through their fingers.
What I it but again was positive, was that the camera has a battery and no batteries. This is of course a matter of opinion for each, I prefer in any case the battery, which, incidentally, kept very long. Although I had the camera with me every day and determines almost every other day here and there pictures did, the battery has persevered for over a month.