Canon IXUS 132 Digital Camera - Black (16MP, 28mm Wide Angle, Eco Mode, 8x Optical Zoom) 3.2 inch LCD

Product Information

The Canon IXUS 132 is a point and shoot digital compact camera featuring fully automatic modes for simplicity, an 8x optical zoom starting from 28mm, fun shooting modes and a 16 megapixel sensor. Canon like to keep things simple on the IXUS range and there's only two buttons on the top plate to reaffirm this. Video recording is included and records 720p at 25fps with sound, and can be started using the dedicated video recording button on the back. Additional sample photos and product shots are available in the Equipment Database, where you can add your own review, photos and product ratings. However, there are competitors available with additional features such as Full HD video, high speed shooting, and / or Wi-Fi although these tend to cost a little more.

Do It Yourself Digital Camera Repair: Canon Digital Cameras Showing Black Images or Distorted Images". However, if you don't want to use one, or don't know how, the Canon IXUS 132 does sharpen them to a satisfactory level in-camera. The camera can shoot as close as 1cm in macro mode, and features an Eco mode to extend battery life from 200 shots to 275 shots.The shutter speeds may not go as low as they will in the Night mode and this is something we'll look at in more depth when we test the camera at night. In Canon's service notice they also stated the following: "Effective immediately, and regardless of warranty status, Canon will repair, free of charge, products exhibiting the above-mentioned malfunction if the malfunction is caused by the CCD image sensor. Speed - We took a number of shots to test the camera's responsiveness, from switch on to first photo, shot to shot, focusing speed etc. Top that off with a Digic 4 processor and the IXUS 132 promises to be a camera to take great pictures for you. The aforementioned Main menu is used for making permanent changes to the Canon IXUS 132 as well as the core features.

As well as choosing the resolution of the photographs, you can also choose whether to use a Fine or Superfine compression. Despite the small size the buttons and controls are a decent size and this makes the camera easy to use. Canon used its experience with small film cameras, particularly the APS IXUS, to mass-produce good digital cameras smaller than anyone else had managed up to the time (the first Digital IXUS was the smallest 2MP then available [2]) and reused the popular IXUS/IXY/ELPH brand name with the tag line "The DIGITAL IXUS blends Canon's award-winning IXUS design with PowerShot digital technology. The intelligent Auto mode will be able to select the appropriate scene mode suitable for the scene it sees when pointed at something.The internal wiring of the CCD can become disconnected in high-temperature or high-humidity environments. Megapixels capture fine detailCapturing all the detail from the genuine Canon lens the 16MP sensor delivers superb quality images that are perfect for large-scale prints (A3+) or creative cropping.

At first it seems that Canon have done away with typical scene modes on the IXUS 132 that you can choose yourself. There's a very high margin of success with these systems, so don't worry about getting the settings wrong on too many photographs. Looking at the pictures at normal viewing size, noise is only really visible at ISO 800 and only annoying at ISO 1600, which proves just how good it is.A substantial difference and we didn't notice much loss of detail in our test shot aside from slightly sharper fine strands.

Interestingly, whenever we took any further portraits or self portraits, we didn't get red-eye at all. All images here are the original camera JPEG with original Exif information, unmodified except for lossless rotation.

While noise is stripping the darker areas of detail, the noise reduction software seems to protect the lighter areas as they're relatively untouched even at ISO 800. The Canon IXUS 132 is an ultra compact camera with an 8x optical zoom lens, 16 megapixel sensor and a 2. All of the sample images in this review were taken using the 16 megapixel Superfine JPEG setting, which gives an average image size of around 6Mb. Then, if you decide to sell, MPB will pick up your kit with a free insured DPD collection and you’ll get paid cash into your account within days. The PowerShot Digital ELPH using SD had SDxxx or SDxxxx model number prior to 2011 models' introduction.