Canon Digital IXUS 95 IS

If you’re a sucker for slender, sexy looking compact cameras, Canon’s all set to entice you with the Canon Digital IXUS 95 IS.

This petite beauty measures a mere 86 x 55 x 22 mm and weighs 120-grams. The camera’s built for the style conscious, a fact that’s accentuated by the colors it’s available in - silver, orange, gray, blue and pink. The camera’s body’s ergonomically curved to make it convenient to carry, and look sleek at the same time. The front side’s covered by a panel in the aforementioned colors with a high-quality scratch resistant paintjob, while the rest of the body’s a dull silvery gray.

The power button and shutter release are on top, which is encircled by a zoom toggle ring. The back of the camera has a toggle to move between full auto, program and movie mode, along side a preview button. Below that is the navigation D-pad, and the display and menu buttons. A 2.5-inch, 230,000 screen rests besides the button, that displays vibrant colors even in daylight.

The small size, portable design, and aesthetically pleasing looks makes the Canon Digital IXUS 95 IS dressed to impress. Besides the looks, the sturdy design and good build quality is the first thing you’d notice in this sexy devil.

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The IXUS 95 IS comes with a CCD sensor that takes shots of up to 10 megapixel. The sensor does a decent job since image quality is quite good, and details are captured pretty well. Color reproduction and auto-white balance were accurate too.

The camera’s auto scene recognition mode picks the right shots for the right scene, and what I liked about it is that it doesn’t over-shoot ISO levels to give grainy images. The program mode doesn’t give you too much manual control, but the presence of good exposure control settings is always welcome. You can select scene modes from the program mode too.

The camera’s macro performance was really good. It captured the minutest of details with ease and handled lit and shadowed areas sufficiently well without overcompensating for dark areas, like many consumer cameras do.

ISO settings start at 80 and go up to 1600. ISO performance was good and grains started showing up higher up in the ISO rating than we’d expect; shots up to ISO 400 were very usable.

The night mode was a little iffy, and the camera would burn out bright areas too much, while details would be lost in averagely lit areas.

In conclusion, if you’re looking for an easy-to-use point-and-click with good picture quality, this one should be on your list of options. The good ISO and Macro performance are icing on the cake, but the night mode could be a turn off for some. The camera’s available for Rs.10,995 (MRP), which we think is a fair price for this baby.