Can ixus 970

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Share your passions with vlogging. Master the light any time, anywhere. Shoot in monochrome for timeless chic. Face detection and in-camera red eye correction are really the basics these days. It's nice to have 18 scene modes, an orientation sensor, basic editing tools and image tagging option in playback mode, but not that exciting.

Tags are generic, like 'people' and 'scenery', while you can only trim and resize images to preset sizes. What is most interesting is the 's enormous ace in the hole: a 5x optical zoom. The 35mm equivalent focal length is a fairly average 37mm at the wide end, but the zoom is the largest in the IXUS range. Fortunately, the longer zoom is paired with optical image stabilisation, as zooming further magnifies the small vibrations of shaky hands.

Performance You can't go wrong with Canon. Colour is rendered accurately, with a pleasing richness to the reds in each image. Detail is crisp and not overly sharpened. As always, the big hurdle is noise performance, with the maximum ISO speed unusable.

High contrast images gave the the most trouble, even when we sifted through the menus to bracket exposure metering, giving the camera a chance to judge light levels from different parts of the image. Some images saw the blow out highlights and lose detail in darker areas at the same time, which is another reason why it pays to investigate and tweak the exposure controls, such as they are.

The 's continuous perfomance took us by surprise with the sort of endurance usually seen on the day of the London Marathon.