Typical price: £250
What is it: 8-megapixel compact camera with 4x optical zoom
What we think: It has just about everything you'd want in a point-and-shoot
Average user rating
6.5
good
Average user rating from 4 users
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Canon Digital IXUS 950 IS user reviews
July 30, 2007
Posted by: Badger
"I want to like it, but I don't"
What I like:
Image quality
What I don't like:
The interface, low light shots
Review:
I had high hopes for the Canon as a replacement for an aging Pentax Optio 5i, but it has not really delivered. Yes, the 8MB is higher quality, and there are more tools and settings to play with. But for a point a squirt camera there really isn't that much difference.
The bad points are that I found the user interface to be too complicated and the scroll wheel control a bit fiddly. This is compounded by the fact that the auto setting struggled to take lower light photos, insisting on using the flash nearly all the time.
Yes, there are good points. It's a Canon, so very well built (you can feel the quality). The video features and quality are better than I've seen (although near on impossible to import onto my Mac).
Overall, I expected more.
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