Canon IXUS 170 20MP Digital Camera (Black) - Overview

Introduction

Shoot precious memories and treasure them for a lifetime with the Canon IXUS 170 20MP digital camera. Easy to use and operate, this black point and shoot digital camera can be ideal for recording precious memories. You can enjoy every moment and record it for a lifetime. It comes with several automatic features and technologies. You get auto, eco and help button in it, which makes shooting a breeze. The auto button comes to your assistance when you are uncertain about the settings. Switch on the auto button and the camera will decide on the required settings. While, you enjoy the moment this camera will help you record it perfectly. Making shooting easy is also the help button. It helps you learn about the different camera settings and features. Reading thick manuals to understand the camera operation will not be required. If you forget to charge this 20 MP point and shoot camera, don't worry its eco mode will ensure that you capture every moment easily. In this mode, the camera screen turns dark, conserving battery and helps you record more images and videos. Featuring a NB-11LH battery, on a complete charge you can record up to 200 images with this Canon camera and make movie for approximately 55 minutes.

Performance

Capture distortion free and clear images in any environment with this Canon point and shoot camera. Featuring f/3.6 - f/10.0 aperture range in widescreen mode and f/7.0 - f/20.0 in telephoto mode, it lets you adjust the image quality depending on the scene. You can regulate the brightness of a particular image according to your requirement using its 100-800 ISO ratings. Frame your shot on its 2.7-inch TFT LCD with approximately 230000 dots resolution and 4:3 aspect ratio. Improving the clarity of the images are its different flash modes like auto, on, slow synchro and off. It comes with 50 cm – 4.0 m flash range in widescreen mode and 1.0 m - 2.0 m in telephoto mode. Capture every image with minimum lag time as this Canon camera comes with 1/2000 to 1 second shutter speed and 15-1 second in long shutter mode. Enhancing your image quality are the different metering modes like evaluative, centre-weighted average and spot. With this best compact camera, you also get the powerful image stabilisation technology. When shooting from an uneven surface or with shaky hands, its image stabilisation technology helps you capture distortion free images. For your close-up's, it comes with a 1 cm macro range. It features 1 cm to infinity focus range for wide-angled images and 1 m to infinity for telephoto images. With 20 effective megapixels, every image you capture will be ready for direct printing and video worth sharing.

Quick & Easy Shooting Experience

With a DIGIC4+ imaging processor and various shooting modes, this Canon IXUS camera helps you record images speedily and give a different effect to every image. The DIGIC4+ imaging processor can improvise your image recoding speed by up to 60% whether you use high ISO speed, intelligent IS speeds or Auto Focussing. It will also improvise the screen start-up time. Give your images a twist every now and then by making use of its different picture modes like live view control, auto, P, portrait, face self-timer, low light, fish-eye effect, miniature effect, toy camera effect, snow, fireworks, poster effect, super vivid, monochrome and long shutter. You can also shoot full HD movies with a 1280 x 720p resolution using its movie button. With this optical zoom camera, capturing images of distant subjects and objects will be easy. With a 12x optical zoom, you can capture distant objects and subjects easily. Next time, when travelling to the hills you can complete your photo diary with beautiful landscape, sunrise and sunset shots. If required, you can extend the zoom up to 24x to capture every detail. It comes with the Canon's ZoomPlus technology, which enables you to capture far-off objects bright and clear. Featuring a 4.5 mm wide to 54 mm telephoto focal length, capture the depth of field in your images. It helps you to magnify the background and get maximum detailing. This camera comes with 1 cm to infinity in wide and 1 m to infinity in telephoto, and 1 to 50 cm macro focussing range.

Recommendation

If an easy to use camera with various automatic functions is your requirement, then check the features of Canon digital camera and you may find it an apt buy.