Canon IXUS 105 Mirrorless Camera (Silver)

The Canon Digital IXUS 105 IS belongs to the league of Canon's compact point and shoot cameras. This Canon camera uses the CMOS sensor with a resolution of 12.1 megapixel. The focal length of IXUS 105 is 28 - 112 mm in 35 mm equivalent format. The zoom options in the camera include 4x optical and digital zoom. The unique thing about this Canon camera is that you can take pictures even underwater.

The digital camera weighs 140 g inclusive of the battery and memory card and is comfortable to carry around. The Canon IXUS comes with a back switch to help you move between the shooting modes. The left side of this digital camera comprises of a play button above a four-way directional pad centered by a Function Set button. The menu and display button are placed right below it and are used to change the information shown on the LCD.

The camera is powered by the DIGIC 4 image processor. The aspect ratio supported by the IXUS 105 is 4:3. This Canon camera has 2.7-inch TFT color LCD Display with the resolution of 230,000 dots pixels and supports wide viewing angle.

Battery and Storage

This Canon camera comes with a Lithium-Ion NB-6L battery which can take 240 images before discharging completely. You can extend the storage space of the camera by using memory cards such as SD, SDHC and SDXC card. Along with the memory card, this point and shoot camera also has an option of using MultiMediaCard, MMCplus card and HC MMCplus card.

Performance

The Canon Digital IXUS has TTL contrast detection Auto Focus. The aperture range of this Canon camera is f/2.8 - f/8.0. In low - lit environments, the IXUS 105 can automatically adjust its sensitivity from ISO 80 - 1600. The camera has a shutter speed range of 15 - 1/2500 sec which allows you to take pictures of fast moving objects.

This compact camera has built-in flash with a range of 0.3 m - 0.4 m (Wide) and 0.5 m - 0.2 m (Tele). The flash setting can be rectified by the photographer with the usage of the Smart Flash Exposure feature.

Features and Connectivity

This compact digital camera provides several unique shooting options for you to experiment with. The Smart Auto mode makes use of the Scene Detection Technology to analyse the surroundings and select a suitable setting from the shooting options. The other technologies included in this Canon camera are Face Detection technology, Auto Red-Eye Correction and self-timer mode with 2 to 10 seconds delay.

In order to reduce the blur caused in the images, lens shift type image stabilization is installed in the Canon IXUS 105. The IXUS 105 can shoot videos at the resolution of 640 x 480 (30 fps). A high speed USB 2.0 can easily connect your Canon camera to any PC or laptop for you to view or transfer the images.