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Whilst the sake might have been flowing a little freely when the 's designers came up with that one, the rest of the camera's back reveals a 'clean' layout in every sense of the word, sufficiently large buttons recessed into the bodywork to maintain a smoothly minimalist profile. Left of the mode switch we find an obvious dedicated playback button for reviewing captured images on the fly, and beneath this an indicator lamp plus the expected thumb-operated directional control pad with familiar to Canon users dual-purpose 'func' function and set button at its centre.

Press this when the camera is in one of its capture modes and the regular Canon tool bar appears at the left hand side of the screen, running top to bottom, with shooting options extending out across the screen when highlighted, thus forming an L-shape. These options are tabbed through and illuminated using the control pad, any changes effected with a press of that central 'set' button.

Unusually when shooting x pixels 'movies' access is likewise provided to manual white balance and 'My Colors' options. As expected there's the choice to step down quality from its maximum resolution to a slightly more email friendly x pixels at 30fps.

The optical zoom cannot however be accessed once recording has commenced; it merely stays put at the point it was before filming started and, should the user toggle the zoom lever, it is only a digital zoom they'll have access to, the result being a degradation in picture quality as all the camera is doing is cropping in tighter.

Next, at the bottom of the pad, is a means of deleting unwanted images on the fly or selecting the self-timer options two seconds, 10 seconds or custom option , whilst the ability to adjust the flash settings off, slow synchro, on, auto and switch focus from infinity to macro and back complete the package. Below these we find a self-explanatory final pairing of buttons. On the left is 'display', a press of which deactivates the shooting icons littering the screen, whilst a second press reinstates them, so a button for this alone feels a little superfluous.

The button on the right meanwhile is for 'menu', and so rather more essential. As with our review of the IXUS IS last year, pressing 'menu' brings up two folders on-screen with nice, clear type - the first containing the shooting menu, the second the more general purpose set up menu.

The first folder offers a range of options including the ability to activate the digital zoom, call up grid lines on screen, i-Contrast, image stabilisation modes continuous, shoot only, active when panning, or off , plus activate a date stamp if so desired. The second featured folder of the two contains the set up menu, offering the ability to tweak various sound and start up options - there's no longer an extraneous separate menu folder within the Canon series for doing this - plus format the card in use or reset all current settings.

As there's not much - if anything - on this diminutive camera with which to get a firm purchase, when gripping it with both hands the user's thumb inevitably comes to rest in the middle of the LCD screen as a way of holding it steady, the result being thumbprints and smears all over the LCD.

The base of the camera meanwhile features a familiar screw thread for attaching this IXUS to a tripod, plus a sliding door protecting both the card port with no internal memory to fall back on and slender rechargeable lithium ion battery, good for a so-so but acceptable shots from a single charge. In summary, there's nothing over complicated here and operating the IXUS is an intuitive process that doesn't require booting up the PC to read the full manual included on CD only.

So this brings us to the pictures themselves. Do the results suggest that this is a camera that transcends its exterior good looks, and is, indeed, as cute where it counts? Let's find out…. All of the sample images in this Review were taken using the 12 megapixel Fine JPEG setting, which gives an average image size of around 3Mb. Canon cameras are noted for their reliable, consistent performance, having officially become a trusted brand in the process. That said test images from the IXUS were to our eyes softer than expected - lacking a very definite 'bite' and punch when left on default settings.

Once again the familiar bugbear of purple fringing is present between areas of high contrast, though it's certainly no worse than competing models and only noticeable if you're actually looking closely for it.

This is nit picking however and in general terms the image quality, though average, will be sufficient for the IXUS' target market of those wanting a portable yet stylish camera for holidays and the occasional spur-of-the-moment snap. In terms of the camera's performance in lower light conditions, again it's pretty much what you'd expect from a point and shoot model, namely a clean bill of health up until ISO , detail softening at ISO and noise visible across the entirety of the image at ISO Noise isn't overly 'gritty' in appearance at this top setting though, so it's an option that's usable at a push.

The right-hand image has had some sharpening applied in Photoshop. The out-of-the camera images are a little soft at the default sharpening setting and benefit from some further sharpening in a program like Adobe Photoshop.

You can also change the in-camera sharpening level to suit your tastes via the My Colors menu option. The Canon Digital IXUS handled chromatic aberrations quite well during the review, with some purple fringing present around the edges of objects in certain high-contrast situations, as shown in the examples below.

The Canon Digital IXUS offers a Macro setting that allows you to focus on a subject that is 3cms away from the camera when the lens is set to wide-angle. The first image shows how close you can get to the subject in this case a compact flash card. These shots of a white coloured wall were taken at a distance of 1.

And here are some portrait shots. As you can see, neither the Flash On or the Red-eye Correction settings caused any amount of red-eye. The Canon Digital IXUS 's maximum shutter speed is 15 seconds in the Long Shutter mode, which is good news if you're seriously interested in night photography. The camera takes the same amount of time again to apply noise reduction, so for example at the 5 second setting the actual exposure takes 10 seconds. The thumbnails below link to the full-sized versions, which have not been altered in any way.

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