I bought this camera as a gift and I know he will make an ideal companion picture.
Build quality is good, there is steel, certainly we are not on a product made in japan as the most high-end devices from Canon (the SX 270 HS for example) but its fitting quality is good.
Its screen 2.7 "is sufficient to properly enjoy and appreciate the quality of a photo, thanks to him, we can quickly check the sharpness of the picture and so the redo if necessary.
At the program level, we have a program mode that you can customize as desired (ISO, exposure compensation, image quality, frame rate, exposure metering) and a lot of assisted programs (snow, fire fireworks, flowers, children ...) something fun. Furthermore, some filters have been added to the modes and can thus easily simulate a fish-eye effect, toy camera, black and white ... it is very easy and fun.
Level of photo quality, this unit is good for a compact type of device! The 20 million pixel sensor is not bad and allows to make beautiful pictures.
The increasing iso permitted by the sensor is good up to 400 ISO and 800 ISO still exploitable, which for a camera in this range and this award is a great surprise. Certainly we did not render a more high-end device but the pictures made by this device are good and can easily be printed on A4.
The device comes with a battery and charger, wrist strap, and a very brief manual. For software, it must pass through the cannon site to download, but it's worth it because they are free and quality.
This device also has an optical zoom is better to take pictures, which is equivalent to a 10 x 24 to 240 mm, enough to cover landscape photography, portraiture and also some animal. The digital zoom can be used in x 2 (what makes a x 20 in all and with a good quality).
Video level, canon ixus 155 films in 720p at 30 frames / second. The clear weather is good quality, in low light, the video quickly becomes very noisy.
For the price, this device gives value for money and will not disappoint those wanting to learn about photography or simply wanting a camera to capture their memories.
Definitely recommended, very good digital camera.