Canon PowerShot SD800 IS (Digital IXUS 850 IS / IXY Digital 900 IS)

performance, usability, portability, image quality, lens

shutter, durability

97% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

77% des avis sur Amazon.fr donnent une note favorable à ce produit.

Nice colour in shots, great design, fast

High chromatic aberration, some sharpness issues, noisy at high ISOs

The IXUS 850 IS is a very speedy camera that sports a stylish design and offers good colour representation. Image quality problems including chromatic aberation and noise at higher ISO levels do however impact on it's performance.

The Canon Digital IXUS 850 IS combines every piece of cutting edge technology currently available in the digital camera market into one beautifully made high-performance package, and tops it off with superb image quality. It's an expensive luxury...

Good resolution, good color, Useful and fairly rare 28-105mm zoom range, Clean, detailed results at lower ISO settings, Reliable exposure system, Fast and accurate focus, Very responsive, Excellent user interface, easy to use, Face detection AF/AE (it...

AiAF focus a bit unpredictable - turn it off, Very little manual control, ISO 200 and 400 suffer from the effect of noise reduction and loss of low contrast detail, ISO 800 and 1600 of limited use, Finish very susceptible to marks and scratches, Still...

The SD 700 IS was perhaps my favorite point and shoot camera of last year, ticking all the right boxes (small, stylish, reliable, good output, easy to use) and showing that, for all the grumbling about Canon's dominance of this market, when they get...

Shots look great: Color is reasonably on target and images are crisp even with significant shake. Wide-angle 3.8x zoom lens captures a big picture. A real hacker’s cam, with dozens of surprise features and settings. Spare battery included. Shutter lag...

Zoom controls difficult to reach. Comparably weak flash. Some odd screen modes that will go largely unused: How often will you need an aquarium setting

Excellent colour performance ; Great wide-angle lens ; Attractive looks

Image noise at higher ISOs

A victory for substance over style. Many people may buy the 850 IS because it looks fantastic, but they'll get great images too

Great build, image quality as lower ISOs, responsive, easy to use, good metering and colour, nice lens focal range

Reduced detail due to noise reduction processing, Intrusive noise at higher ISOs, unreliable AiAF focus system, bodywork prone to scratching

Like all digital cameras with far to many pixels for the size of sensor in use, image noise and its reduction have contrived to reduce the absolute image making capabilities of this camera. In the final analysis, the 850IS has a much-improved lens and...

The Canon Ixus 850 IS is a worthy addition to the Ixus family. Its enhanced resolution, glassware and features make it a mightily attractive package for casual snappers.