IXUS 160 CAMERA 8X OPTICAL ZOOM

Canon IXUS 160

Simple stylish shooting

Flexible, fun and small enough to carry with you everywhere, this stylish 20 Megapixel IXUS with Smart Auto makes shooting beautiful Canon quality photos and HD movies simply effortless for everyone.

Put style and simplicity in your pocket with ultra-slim IXUS
Capture all your best moments - near or far
Capture stunning detail with 20 MP
Beautiful shots with point and shoot ease using Smart Auto
Have fun and experiment with Creative Filters
In good light the IXUS 160’s 20MP CCD sensor manages to resolve a decent level of detail and reproduces colours with accuracy and vibrancy. Zoom in to 100% images size and you’ll see some grain noise even in shots taken in bright conditions, but this is normal for small-sensor compact cameras. What’s good is that Canon hasn’t chosen to apply more aggressive noise reduction processing to hide this, as that means more distant detail in shots like landscape stays relatively crisp and isn’t smoothed to the point of looking painterly.

But it’s not all good news, as in dimmer conditions grain noise is much more evident. Even at sensor sensitivities below ISO400, colour speckling is visible in areas of neutral tones, and you don’t have to look that hard to spot it. Detail also starts to get smudged at around ISO400, and inevitably things get softer at ISO800. This is really the cut-off point for acceptable image quality, as at the top-most ISO1600 sensitivity images look so soft that they could have been captured at 5MP and crudely enlarged to 20MP dimensions.

Part of the problem is actually down to the IXUS 160’s lack of image stabilisation. Without it, the only way the camera can maintain sharp shots is to use faster shutter speeds, but that in turn requires higher ISO sensitivities in order to produce bright images, resulting in shots with more grain and colour speckling.

At least the lens produces fairly low levels of chromatic aberration (purple fringing) in high contrast areas, whilst sharpness is also quite consistent with only minor drop-off towards the corners of frame. Distortion is minimal too, both at the wide angle and telephoto ends of the zoom range.

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