In the box situated next to the camera, the battery, the charger, a USB cable, the usual hand strap, and a CD-ROM with a rudimentary image editing. Even a small manual with basic information. I would recommend the latest manual for the camera from the Canon website downloading, especially the establishment of the WI-FI connection, a good support is given here.
The camera can almost be called delicate. The well-made case fits comfortably in your hand. The few controls can be found there, where they were also suspected. The camera weighs with battery and memory card 144 grams, making it a lightweight. The lens offers focal lengths ranging from 4.3 mm 43. On small picture are 24 240 mm converted. So you should be well prepared for almost all situations. The Ixus 255 HS offers a 10 times optical zoom. Those who wish can also use a digital zoom of up to 40 times zoom factor. But this is not recommended, otherwise the good image quality suffers then but strong.
The camera offers in almost all situations, a good to very good image quality. This is probably also the fact that the back illuminated 1 / 2.3 CMOS sensor only 12 megapixels have been placed on the page. Thus, the sensor is not overwhelmed and produced in cooperation with the DIGIC image processor low-noise images with vibrant colors.
The ISO range is from 80 to 6400. Very nice is to be noted that the camera in dark shooting situations the ISO value in automatic mode chooses not covered up, what comes to the noise performance to the best!
Naturally, the camera also provides various scene programs such as Portrait, Fish Eye, Night Scene and more. These programs are quite easy to reach via the simple but effective menu. Very nice, I find that the Canon Ixus 255 HS can be operated not only in automatic mode. In P mode, albeit limited, in different settings be influenced.
Furthermore, the camera offers a hybrid car mode. A few seconds of film are recorded here in front of each picture. This can be used to make the photo diaries. I do not need this function absolutely, but it is a nice feature.
The film quality of the camera is impeccable. The movies are OK, the quality of a camcorder can not be expected, of course.
The camera's battery seems to me very persistent, for scarce 250 images are currently no weakness phenomenon to be reported. Very nice is also the screen of the camera, which reproduces the images produced in a good quality!
Another feature is the Wi-Fi functionality. If you've made the somewhat fiddly device, the camera transmits the images without problems to a PC or a smartphone. However, I will continue to read the memory card via card reader, because it just goes faster!
Conclusion: The Canon Ixus 255 HS has pleasantly surprised me. Such a good picture quality, I would not have expected the small apparatus. Anyone who wants to quickly produce good pictures, I can here express a purchase recommendation. Pictures are worth a thousand words, a few pictures I have uploaded!
