Canon IXUS 110 IS Hands-On

#1 Pedro

Awful camera, blurry images. A shame to Canon, my old Sony P120 takes MUCH better pictures

Please don´t waste your money

3:28 am - Tuesday, April 14, 2009

#2 alfonso

hey pedro, can you please tell me more about it? maybe you just didn't use the right settings or got a bad model? which camera would you recommend instead? i'm curious since i'm about to buy this camera ...

5:04 am - Wednesday, April 15, 2009

#3 Pedro

The pictures are not sharp, you have a 12 megapixel picture that actually 'works' as a much smaller one. When you zoom in to full size, everything gets blurred. For instance, you can not see the leafs of a tree; you can´t read anything that´s written; you can´t see people´s hair, only a blur; etc etc.

Besides, all scenes that had the slightest movement came up without focus. And the HD video got a really poor quality, also. Not what I would expect from a "High-Definition"

In comparison, my old Sony P120 5MP takes better pictures, wich I find unacceptable, considering its several years of service.

Right settings? Well, I would expect that a point-and-shoot camera would not require many adjustments on the automatic mode.

About a bad model, that would not be very good to Canon either, right?

And not to be unfair, the colour handling seemed good to me. On some pictures (not all), the camera could capture lots of diferent colours and made them seem very vivid. In dark environments it also performed better than the P120, though far from perfection

1:20 pm - Wednesday, April 15, 2009

#4 Justin

I bought my camera in March and have taken over 1000 pictures on it while on vacation. On screen the pictures look great but in full size theyre absolutely terrible. It isnt sharp and even in full sunlight the pictures are slightly fuzzy. I have a Canon 400D as well and when we were looking at the pictures they looked better on the 110 but on the pc in full size you couldnt compare them. Yes, it is a DSLR but the quality on the 110 is terrible compared to other compact cameras. I was always impressed by Canon until now. Buy any camera but this.

11:41 am - Thursday, April 16, 2009

#5 alfonso

wow, Pedro, Justin, thank you for your reports. I cannot trust amazon (and others) anymore because of guerrilla marketing. Now I might go for a cheap Panasonic Lumix F35, just to have a wide-angle camera for snapshots. I was hoping for the canon 110is to be a pocket size camera with a quality faintly reminding of DSLR, but it looks like the gap between these two technologies did not close in the last couple of years ...

3:55 am - Friday, April 17, 2009

#6 Poul

I've just bought the 110 IS, but i'm not impressed with the picture quality, but I'm only used to DSLR quality, so I'm not shure how it compares to other cameras.
What really puzzels me is, that the it's absolutely hopeless to find the right shutter/aperture/iso combination: I took some wideangle outdoor pictures in sunlight, and the camera chose the combination 1/1000, F2.8, ISO 160! The right combination would be like 1/120, F8.0, ISO 80. And there's no possibility to control the shutter/aperture settings manually...

I'll return the camera tomorrow.

6:07 pm - Thursday, April 30, 2009

#7 lusse

Thank you for your posts. I've bought one 2 weeks ago and I'm VERY dissapointed. I was starting to thing that maybe I got a broken camera or something cause ALL the pictures seem blurry and have poor quality. My old ixus50 took MUCH better pictures.

I'm going back to the store tomorrow and change to another camera. Maybe ixus 85

3:48 pm - Friday, July 24, 2009

#8 Madde

Same here - blurry pictures. We were so satisfied with our Ixus 500 until it broke down after 5 years. So we wanted an Ixus this time as well, sadly I did not find this in time before shopping. How can a 5+ year old digital camera in the same series beat the new one?? Bad lenses or what?

1:43 pm - Friday, October 2, 2009

#9 dejan

I thought I'm the only one with this impression until read these comments. I bought IXUS 120 (practically the same thing) a week ago and cannot believe that photos I'm getting are unclearer than the ones from my previous 5-year old Cannon A95. Most of them looks like they are taken with some better mobile phone. Cannot believe no review on the internet mention this?!?!?!

9:17 pm - Monday, March 29, 2010

#10 R

As it appears the Ixus 120 and the Ixus 110 have the same problems. I also bought the Ixus 120 (AKA SD940), because of good experiences with past Ixus models, it's form factor and 4 times wide angle zoom. Unfortunately it was a huge disappointment.

Designwise the Ixus 120 is very nice, but the image quality is bad (very gray colours/grainy, even in vivid mode and blurry). Even an old Canon Powershot A540 produced better colours and sharpness. Fully zoomed in seems to be the only way to get good sharpness with the Ixus 120 or maybe when the sun is shining really hard. On pictures when I zoom in on the computer, texts could not be read, even when zoomed in optically (to approximately 35 mm), you really need to zoom in to 120mm.

Before I had the Ixus 60 (SD600) en the Ixus 70 (sd1000), both of them producing very pleasing results in terms of colour reproduction en sharpness in different circumstances.

As well as Dejan, I can't either believe that the Ixus 120 is rated so good/do not mention anything about this. It seems that the newest Digic IV processor is not better in terms of image quality (at least in colour reproduction and sharpness) than the old Digic III processor (google for more opinions on that). I also think that the number of megapixels is much too high for such a small camera, better increase the image quality than the megapixels (10 MP is more than enough).

Too bad, I really had my hopes up when I opened up the box with the very tiny Ixus 120, but unfortenately I'm going back to an older Ixus 70 (SD1000) or 85 (SD770), although they only seem to be offered used nowadays which is logical. The new Ixus 130 (sd1400) seems to produce even worse images (see CNET Australia). I always enjoyed the picture quality from Canon, but it seems that this aspect is going downhill.

3:06 pm - Wednesday, April 7, 2010

#11 Cameragirl

Hi everyone - I've recently bought an Ixus 110 IS and like most here am very dissapointed. Not only are the images difficult to focus on screen, and blurred when zoomed in - does anyone have strange coloured (in my case pinkish) banding sometimes, though not always, appearing on the screen and any ideas what causes this?

8:55 am - Saturday, June 5, 2010