Good Always-In-Camera 1

Good Always-In-Camera 1

Canon IXUS 255 HS Digital Camera (12.1 MP, 10x opt. Zoom, 7.5 cm (3 inch) display, Full HD, image stabilized) Silver (Electronics)

Customer Review

At the very beginning: the camera I bought as Always-In-Camera in order to make time for short-term opportunities available without major adjustments spontaneous photos. And just for the Ixus 255 has been designed as it is geared towards maximum comfort. The automatic is expected to decrease the photographer as much as possible, so the manual settings in automatic mode are limited. In P mode, some settings can be made more (white balance, ISO, etc.). This is sufficient for me. When it comes to control everything manually, I take my DSLR, but must then also have more time for the schedule settings.

Despite the automatic Lastigkeit the Ixus one should nevertheless with the possibilities offered by the camera, confront and experimenting easy times, until you find some settings that you want to apply in certain situations.
Some appear here eg Focusing difficulty at close range to have. Maybe it helps if you the AF frame mode is on middle instead of on the face / AiAF or tracking AF menu. This increases the chances increase significantly that the camera focused sharply (which also applies to the non-macro-region). In addition, you can sometimes try to shoot close-ups without the anti-shake performance.
Even with ISO, white balance, color tones and special effects you should work in the P-mode time to create certain moods. In short: a focused primarily on automatic Ixus provides opportunities to be creative.

Image Quality:
The automatic function in cameras is such a thing as a panacea. Canon has tried, like other camera manufacturers and look for the golden mean, which will satisfy all automatic clippers. This is Canon succeeded. In automatic mode, fosters good photos even in darker lighting conditions. The noise performance of this camera is by the way very satisfactory with higher ISO values. Who wants to have more contrast or more color saturation, whom the images generally appear too bright or too dark (everyone has just his own sense of beauty), which was then but change to P mode and perform a number of settings that meet the personal tastes.

Furthermore: camera is quickly ready to shoot after power and focuses quickly. By (disconnectable) Continuous AF, the camera also permanently sharp areas on which it is aligned. So you can react and trigger quickly to opportunities. Even the flash is amazingly strong for its size. But occurs in flash photography in dark environments often a trigger delay, because the time is for focusing and data processing longer. This should be kept in mind if you want to photograph moving subjects.

Determine is still that I have lowered the number of megapixels. 90% of the shots I do with 5 megapixels in 3: 2 aspect ratio. This is efficient enough for my needs.

Video:
For me, more of a secondary function. I take videos rarely. Primarily in family situations with children (birthdays, etc.). I can not do great comparisons with other cameras here, I find the recordings but very well done. The picture is sharp and voices are well perceptible. Only wind noise a little murky the acoustics (despite the use of wind protection function).
Again, I would like to mention that I have the video recording quality is set to 1280x720 (ie HD), since my television can no longer represent. How do shots with 1920x1080 (ie Full HD) on a suitable TV, I can not say. Anyway, I'm happy with my results.

WLan
For this I can not write anything. I do not need this feature. I do not own a smartphone, and am active in any social network. Will I transfer my pictures on the computer, I just take out the SD card and insert it into the computer. Quite simply and completely straightforward.

Negatives:
Where light as well as shade.
Camera is a smooth surface, they can easily fall out of your hands. I miss because more grip.
Buttons on the rear panel could also be slightly larger, so that taller men hands so get along. When the control knobs would protrude plus half a millimeter, a service in my opinion would be even better. Especially when shooting, which also require pressing two buttons (eg when taking pictures with AF Lock) to this design to a pure finger acrobatics. Here probably design was held in the foreground functionality.
The cover of the HDMI or USB access is not ideal to open and it gets in the way, when it comes to connect the cable to the entrances.
Battery capacity is average, even when not using the hybrid car mode. For a day trip you should buy a spare battery for safety's sake.
Panorama images are unfortunately only possible using a computer.

Conclusion:
Quality camera that makes good pictures and is easy to store because of their size. As Always-In-Camera highly recommended, although for my taste more functionality when operating in the foreground could be. Due to the above limitations, I prefer from a point, so 4 out of 5 points.

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