Promoted as "the photographer’s IXUS" by Canon, the new Digital IXUS 860 IS is one of the more intriguing models in Canon's Autumn lineup of compact digital cameras. The new Canon IXUS 860 IS offers an 8 megapixel sensor and a wide-angle 3.8x zoom lens equivalent to 28-105mm, complete with optical image stabilisation to help ensure that your photos are shake-free. There's also a large 3 inch LCD screen with 230,000 pixels and an anti-glare, scratch-resistant coating. Canon's DIGIC III image processor, which is also used in its DSLR camera range, powers the IXUS 860 IS behind the scenes, and additionally provides the camera's Face Detection and Noise Reduction technologies. There's a new Red-Eye Correction feature on offer in Playback mode, a range of ISO speeds up to 1600 and a new ISO Auto Shift function to help avoid image blur whenever camera shake is predicted. |
Yogi is finally back in Singapore and the first thing we did was to meet up for coffee (or susu for me) and dragged him to go camera shopping with us.
He took us to one of the shops that he patronises, John 3:16 (no prizes for guessing the owner's religion!) at Funan and we finally settled on the Canon Digital IXUS 860 IS!
Initially, we were deciding between the Panasonic Lumix and the Canon IXUS series as we like the leica lens for the lumix but we have a canon selphy printer so we thought it might be good to have a canon camera too. Samuel, John 3:16's young boss who is incidentally a really cute ah-beng, recommended the Canon model as he said that the Panasonic's pictures tend to be grainer and have more noise (and nope, he doesn't mean the noise the camera makes when you press the shutter!).
After spending a long time entertaining my nonsensical and completely amateurish questions, he finally sold us the camera for $595 (as I rejected the ugly camera bag that came with it) and 'threw in' a 2GB SD card. He was also nice enough to attach the strap for us, set the time and date on the camera, packed everything nicely (all of which aroused Yogi's jealousy as he did not do all these for him the last time he sold him an 'idiot-proof camera').
I am very excited about our new toy. Of course, I am going to claim $400 of it from the don't-know-what-fund we have and since I am claiming that it's for my work purposes, I shall try to make it a point to bring it wherever I go.
I shall peruse the manual whenever I go to bed (do you know that I faithfully read the manuals of the tech toys I buy just to make sure that I do not miss out on any cool functions that I am supposed to know?) and might even consider signing up for the workshop as Samuel says that there are many functions in this camera that can be exploited.
I look forward to taking more pictures of everyone whenever we meet and posting more pictures on our blog!
He took us to one of the shops that he patronises, John 3:16 (no prizes for guessing the owner's religion!) at Funan and we finally settled on the Canon Digital IXUS 860 IS!
Initially, we were deciding between the Panasonic Lumix and the Canon IXUS series as we like the leica lens for the lumix but we have a canon selphy printer so we thought it might be good to have a canon camera too. Samuel, John 3:16's young boss who is incidentally a really cute ah-beng, recommended the Canon model as he said that the Panasonic's pictures tend to be grainer and have more noise (and nope, he doesn't mean the noise the camera makes when you press the shutter!).
After spending a long time entertaining my nonsensical and completely amateurish questions, he finally sold us the camera for $595 (as I rejected the ugly camera bag that came with it) and 'threw in' a 2GB SD card. He was also nice enough to attach the strap for us, set the time and date on the camera, packed everything nicely (all of which aroused Yogi's jealousy as he did not do all these for him the last time he sold him an 'idiot-proof camera').
I am very excited about our new toy. Of course, I am going to claim $400 of it from the don't-know-what-fund we have and since I am claiming that it's for my work purposes, I shall try to make it a point to bring it wherever I go.
I shall peruse the manual whenever I go to bed (do you know that I faithfully read the manuals of the tech toys I buy just to make sure that I do not miss out on any cool functions that I am supposed to know?) and might even consider signing up for the workshop as Samuel says that there are many functions in this camera that can be exploited.
I look forward to taking more pictures of everyone whenever we meet and posting more pictures on our blog!
1 comment:
Old camera For Sale.... anyone? :P
Minolta Dimage Xi 3.2Megapixels, 3x optical zoom, SD card.
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