Canon IXUS 130 Digital Camera - Silver (14.1 MP, 4x Optical Zoom) 2.7 Inch PureColor LCD

Product Information

Canon Digital IXUS 860 IS Digital Compact Camera". Canon Europe. 23 September 2009. Archived from the original on 17 June 2009 . Retrieved 7 April 2010. The Canon Digital IXUS 130 provides high definition video footage at 1280x720 pixels rather than full HD 1920x1080. Unusually though - and as with its 120 IS predecessor - there's a port for HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) provided alongside the regular USB/AV out port. It's not all good news though. The optical zoom isn't accessible when shooting movies, pressing its toggle switch will only effect an equivalent 4x digital zoom, the lens itself staying put. So by using it you're compromising on quality. Approximately 10 minutes of HD footage will fit on a 4GB card, frame rate a commendably smooth 30 frames per second (fps). We shot our gallery images with both cameras side-by-side, using a low angle on the first image and a high angle on the second. In both cases the Canon screen remained bright and visible whereas the Sony’s image virtually disappeared; indeed the latter proved almost impossible to compose with at high or low angles, so if that’s your style of shooting, you’ll be much better served by the Canon.

Here are two 100% crops which have been Saved as Web - Quality 50 in Photoshop. The right-hand image has had some sharpening applied in Photoshop. The out-of-the camera images are just a little soft at the default sharpening setting. You can change the in-camera sharpening level if you don't like the default look. Canon Digital IXUS v / S110 Digital Elph: Digital Photography Review". Dpreview.com. 9 May 2001. Archived from the original on 5 November 2011 . Retrieved 7 April 2010.Canon Digital IXUS 60 Digital Compact Camera". Canon Europe. Archived from the original on 24 February 2011 . Retrieved 7 April 2010. The Canon Digital IXUS 130 produces images of above average quality. The biggest issue is noise and loss of detail at relatively slow ISO speeds. The 1/2.3 inch, 14 megapixel sensor recorded noise-free images at ISO 80 and 100, but there's already some noise and slight colour desaturation at ISO 200. ISO 400 shows more noise and loss of colour, and ISO 800 and 1600 are even worse, with obvious loss of fine detail and further colour desaturation. It would have been even more helpful to have had a dedicated video record button presented somewhere on the IXUS 130’s body, thus enabling recording to commence whichever mode had alternatively been selected at the time. But for the price (and size) again we really can’t grumble too much about this omission.

Ultimately though, the IXUS 130 / SD1400 IS’s stabilisation makes handholding a viable proposition even at relatively slow shutter speeds, although remember like all stabilisation systems it’ll only iron-out wobbles, not freeze a subject in motion. Canon Digital IXUS 700 Digital Compact Camera". Canon Europe. 23 September 2009. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010 . Retrieved 7 April 2010.

Specifications

The same camera models are released in Europe, the US, and Japan under different names. The cameras themselves are identical apart from the front fascia, according to the parts lists. The Canon model number on the bottom is consistent between marketing names. Canon U.S.A., Inc. | Official Canon Service and Support, Canon drivers, Canon tech support and Canon warranty information". Archived from the original on 19 October 2013 . Retrieved 18 October 2013. All images here are the original camera JPEG with original Exif information, unmodified except for lossless rotation. The flash settings on the Canon Digital IXUS 130 are Auto, Manual Flash On / Off, Slow Sync Speed and Red-eye Reduction. These shots of a white coloured wall were taken at a distance of 1.5m.

a b c "Service Notice: CCD Image Sensor Advisory". www.usa.canon.com. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016 . Retrieved 28 August 2008. Pressing the ‘Func set’ button in program mode provides access to a plethora of image adjusting options presented on a toolbar down the left hand side of the screen; in auto mode you’re limited to changing image recording size and compression level and that’s it. The expanded toolbar allows for manual adjustment of white balance, ISO light sensitivity (here up to a modest ISO1600), Canon’s ‘My Colours’ picture settings (vivid or neutral plus extended variants), drive mode (single shot or continuous burst) plus metering options (evaluative, centre weighted average, or spot). Furthermore, this toolbar allows users to drill down into alternative shooting mode options, such as optimised scene settings for portraits, kids and pets and the ilk, plus dedicated low light mode (with attendant pixel drop to three megapixels to limit image noise), various colour accent options and digital filter effects – more on which later. All of the sample images in this Review were taken using the 14 megapixel JPEG setting, which gives an average image size of around 4Mb.

Other Canon regulars such as a swift response Digic 4 processor, blur-reducing optical image stabiliser and subject recognising (and setting optimising) Smart Auto with Scene Detection technology are also on board. Here the camera chooses from 22 presets to allow for pure point and shoot operation with minimal fuss. The camera’s i-Contrast option can also be used to even out bring out detail in high contrast exposures, though in practice its results aren’t that pronounced. Like all compacts with a zoom lens, cameras in the IXUS range are susceptible to the "lens error" message if the lens is physically unable to zoom in or out. On Canon cameras, this manifests as the E18 error or the message "Lens error, restart camera" on more recent models. Canon IXUS 1100 HS Digital Compact Camera". Canon Europe. Archived from the original on 2 January 2012 . Retrieved 19 September 2011. The example above shows i-Contrast selecting the same exposure when set to its Auto mode, and while there’s no detail retrieved in the saturated windows, the darker areas such as the roof, flooring and benches have certainly received a boost.

Auto*, P, Portrait, Night Snapshot, Kids & Pets, Indoor, Smart Shutter(Smile, Wink Self-Timer, FaceSelf-Timer), Low Light(3.5MP), Color Accent, Color Swap, Fish-eye Effect, Miniature Effect, Beach, Underwater, Foliage, Snow, Fireworks, Long Shutter, Stitch Assist, Movie.

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