Canon Digital IXUS 200 IS
In the search for a suitable successor for my old Ixus400 that after 5 years but is now suffering from serious symptoms of loss, I’ve increased my fruit of lengthy discussion and comparison, the Ixus 200 IS.
The crucial criteria for me was the compact dimensions, the great wide-angle (especially for Architectural Photography), a reasonable picture quality and good workmanship. And even if this is superficial, I put a certain amount of emphasis on good design. All that I have found my this camera.
You turn on the camera, she is quickly ready, and offers a straightforward and intuitive. The automatic mode selects the appropriate image from reliable program. The manual mode is, as usual on cameras this size, very clearly maintained. “He offers various programs preinstalled image of more features, such as ISO sensitivity and image brightness. The Ixus 200 is pretty quick in my view, much faster especially when my old one.
The picture quality is okay but not outstanding – it’s probably the fact that 12 megapixels are oversized for such a small camera something. It is amazing that Canon has stuffs such a small digicam so filled with pixels, but on the other hand reduces many subsequent models, the Powershot range, the resolution of 12 to 10 megapixels – for a better picture quality.
At ISO 80 provides the camera really good results – the photos are extremely rich and razor sharp detail, even at high magnification of individual image sections. For example, there is no single portraits of wrinkles and pores do not remain hidden;)
From about ISO 200, you can see, however, that activates a noise filter noise and tries to smooth ironing. While this succeeds fairly well, however, are increasingly blurring the individual details – such as if you run a blur over the image. Nevertheless, the Ixus performance, even in dark rooms satisfactory results. The color reproduction is clear and of course, the image stabilizer is doing his rest.
The touch screen is in the Ixusfamilie an absolute novelty. He is not the steering, as it was actually imagined that he tends to work to support conventional key operation.
In the image viewing mode, you can skim through the images hint via the memory card, zoom, delete, mark favorites and trigger the slide show. Other functions can be selected only on the button control.
In photo mode can be controlled via the touch screen, the flash, select the different scene modes and choose the exposure adjustment. Everything else must be done on the classic button control. Holding the camera vertically (in a horizontal position, there is the possibility can not peculiar) way to trigger the camera with the touch screen, but this has a rather long shutter lag results.
The basic settings of the camera can be exclusively set by key operation and classic dial.
Very much touch-auto focus with the “Man typing on any image on the screen and focus on exactly this subject, the autofocus – even works for moving objects!
For me, the question arises why the camera can operate only partially on the screen to have the feeling that the touch screen has been incorporated only half-heartedly.
Conclusion: is the Ixus 200 is a companion with an ultra wide range of applications, good image quality (for this size), huge 24mm wide angle and nice technical gimmicks such as the touchscreen. From me there is this 4 stars. The fifth star is the Pixelwahn and the somewhat inconclusive operating concept of the touchscreen to the victims.
Tags: Camera, megapixels, small camera