Product Description
Canon introduces the latest evolution of the IXUS range of digital cameras for style-conscious digital photographers: the Canon Digital IXUS 860 IS. Equipped with a 28mm (35mm equivalent) 3.8x wide-angle zoom lens with optical Image Stabilizer, the 8.0 Megapixel Canon Digital IXUS 860 IS is the successor to the hugely popular Canon Digital IXUS 850 IS. The Canon Digital IXUS 860 IS digital camera offers a range of enhancements over its acclaimed predecessor. These include a 3.0? PureColor LCD and improved Face Detection Technology. The Canon IXUS 860 IS high ISO capabilities work in tandem with an optical Image Stabilizer lens to significantly reduce the risk of image blur.
Optical Image Stabilizer
Helping the photographer capture more from group shots, landmarks and landscapes, the 3.8x wide-angle lens of the Canon IXUS 860 IS has a focal length of 28-105mm (35mm equivalent). The lens system incorporates Canon?s lens-shift type optical Image Stabilizer (IS) - first developed in EF lenses for Canon?s market leading EOS system of professional D-SLR cameras and lenses - to counteract camera shake. The lens also incorporates Canon?s aspherical lens technology (UA) for maximum sharpness and clarity.
ISO features
The Canon Digital IXUS 860 IS features a range of ISO features that work in combination with optical IS to virtually eliminate the risk of image blur. A second line of defence against camera shake is Auto ISO Shift, which can be selected by the user to boost the ISO setting just enough to reduce blur. Two further ISO features - manually selected high ISO settings up to ISO 1600 and High ISO Auto - combat the blur caused by typical subject movement, as well as camera shake when poor light would normally require a longer exposure.
Photographic capabilities with luxurious style
The Canon Digital IXUS 860 IS combines enhanced photographic capabilities with luxurious style. The classically curved Canon Digital IXUS 860 IS has a two-tone body that contra
Customer Reviews:
Top job underwater.......2007-12-31
Compared to my old S40 this camera is excellent when used underwater in the canmon housing. The controls, even with gloves on, are eay to use. In fact it is easier to use in the housing than out of it. It's slightly positive bouyancy so if you really worry about that, stick some weights on the housing.
On land, the only fault is Canon removed the view finder. Although the screen is bright enough in most conditions I still like to stick a camera up to my face to take a picture and find framing a photo using the lcd anoying. I guess that's the price you pay for a 3inch screen so won't deduct a point.
The video recording is good for a stills camera and records till the card is full so you can do quite long movies if you want.
Very disappointed.......2007-12-30
First of all let me explain I have owned a previous model of Canon IXUS the 50 for nearly two years with out a problem.
Upgraded to the IXUS 860 IS three days ago and have already returned it to the shop for a refund. No problem with outdoor shots they looked better than the IXUS 50 and the anti-camera shake system seemed to work fine as well as the face recognition system. Nice large LCD screen on the back much bigger than the 50's one but no optical veiwfinder like the 50 however. The 860 looked very nice but was not as solidly built as the 50 which has a metal body. The 860 IS was quite 'plastic' and nothing like as well built.
But unfortunately lots of the indoor flash photos I took had small out of focus `blobs' on them when I looked at them on my PC. Looked a bit like the spots you get on windows when raindrops dry. Some pictures had it some didn't, very odd.
Never had this problem with my old Canon IXUS 50 camera so unfortunately I have had to return the 860 IS already.
Very disappointed, I didn't expect to find such a problem with a camera for this amount of money. Might be just a fault with the one IXUS 860 IS I bought, however be warned.
Not sure if I will try another or wait until the next IXUS comes out and try that. At least my old IXUS 50 still works OK.
Great IS, too much noise........2007-12-22
Another reviewer has critised the camera's use of F2.8 even in bright daylight. Well, I suspect that's a (rather poor) attempt at the camera trying to mask the problems with noise in the chip.
It really is a disappointment. Admittedly I'm coming from using an EOS350D SLR, but since the pixel count is the same and the processor now a DigicIII instead of the digic II on the eos350d, I was rather expecting better.
The only thing that I am really really impressed by is the image stabilizer. It doesn't get every pitcure spot on, but I am still very very impressed... it certainly ain't just a gimmick!!! It's just a pity that what improvement the image stabilizer gives is taken away by the poor quality chip.
The stupid touch sensitive buton can at least be switched off so it operates like a normal button. And the camera may not be totally intuitive out-of-the-box, but once you get used to it it does operate very well. The cover to the connection part (usb cable) is very flimsy and totally our-of-charactor with the rest of the camera (which feels very substantial).
Power on to first shot time is fast. You aren't going to lose a shot because of waiting for the camera to ready itself.
Review of pictures with a class 2 card is a bit slow, although if you hold down the buttons it speeds through low resolution thumbnails, and you can also jump in screens full of 9 images as well, so it's still very usable.
There is some chromatic abberation in the corners of the image at wide angle, but far less than I feared there might be. Although there is a loss of definition in the corners at wide angle. But nothing you wouldn't reasonably expect from a compact camera at this price. It's definitely worth having that wide angle... the problems aren't anywhere near enough to detract from the benefit of the wide angle.
The image processor is good (the colours look good when viewed overall), although it really does seem to be trying too hard to overcome the noise on the chip as it is (to me it seems that areas of detail lose detail because the image processor is having to try to remove noise). Even at ISO80, although you can't see the noise, you can tell (for example try finding details in trees in a landscape) that the image processor is still losing image detail to overcome noise from the chip. At ISO1600 you aren't going to get a nice picture... the noise is atrocious.. in particular it seems to suffer from chromatic noise which the image processor _should_ have been able to overcome! (anything over ISO100 shows noise... even below that the evidence is there that the processor is still trying to cover up noise from the chip)
I would really really like to say that all it needs is a RAW mode and aperature priority and you could mothball your D-SLR, but unfortunately that's not the case. The chip in the EOS350D at least, is still far superior in quality (less noise), so there's still reason to hold onto that D-SLR. I think with the noise problems with this chip a RAW mode would be pointless.
I haven't used any other compact cameras so couldn't comment how the noise compares to competitors. And to be fair, Canon isn't marketing this as a replacement to their DSLRs so it's probably a bit unfair to compare to them (even though they do claim the same number of pixels it really is a case that there's more to quality than just the pixel count!).
But my main reason for buying this was something that's a bit more discrete and portable that would let me take pictures where carrying a DSLR isn't practical. And for that it does it's job ...albeit not quite with the image quality I would have liked, but this is a compact that costs half the price of a DSLR so probably not unreasonable ... hence why I still give it a 4 star rating.
(And if anyone from canon is reading this, there's small scope for the image processor to remove the chromatic noise, but other than that the image processor is already doing tooooooo much to overcome the rest of the noise... get the sensor sorted!!!!!!)
Canon could have made it a little better!.......2007-12-14
I bought this camera because I wanted a pocket size camera with a decent low light capability. My previous camera a Casio Z50 suffered from noise at ISO 200 especially at night. I have to say the Casio was better built esp in respect to the battery/card cover. I would say this was important if you will be recharging/changing the battery/card often. It really is too flimsy and is inexcusable when paying much more than other compacts on the market.The best way to transfer images is to remove the SD card and put in your card reader. The other downside, more for people interested in optical image quality is that it tends to use F2.8 most of the time even in broad daylight and I can't see any "scene" mode that would change that. The other thing I don't like is the touch dial. You're better off using the "Func Set" button in the middle of it and then making changes. Compared to the other models on the market this is the better option and this is my opinion after owning it for a week.
pleased.......2007-11-28
i bought this camera becuase of canon's good reputation - and i was not disappointed
i chose this model over the 12mp becuase of the sleek look, big screen and the extra features which i LOVE!
colour accent is such a good feature and creates really different and creative pictures
the camera is also really easy to use and has good battery life
it has not disappointed me yet and is a HUGE improvement on my old nikon coolpix
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