Canon IXUS 105 / PowerShot SD1300 IS review and tutorial

Canon IXUS 105 / PowerShot SD1300 IS review

The Canon IXUS 105, accepted as the PowerShot SD1300 IS in North America, is the best recent apotheosis of Canon’s bunched ambit which combines consumer-friendly appearance with a scattering of added avant-garde controls in an affordable amalgamation advised to address to the style-conscious. Sounds like a alpine order, but it’s one Canon continues to pull-off.

Released in February 2010 alongside the ultra abbreviate IXUS 130 (PowerShot SD1400 IS), the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS supercedes the IXUS 95 IS / PowerShot SD1200 IS, one of 2009′s best affairs compacts. The aloft differences are an added zoom range, a 12.1 Megapixel sensor and a aloft 2.7in screen, admitting at the amount of the beforehand model’s optical viewfinder.

The IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS appearance a 4X optical zoom with an agnate ambit of 28 to 114mm, accouterment it with wide-angle advantage hardly absent on its predecessor. Eagle-eyed Canon followers will apprehension the Agenda and IS labels accept been abandoned from the IXUS branding this year, but abhorrence not, this camera still has angel stabilisation; aloof so there’s no doubt, Canon has printed the words ‘Image Stabilizer’ on the larboard panel. The camera’s low-light achievement is added added by Canon’s motion apprehension technology which boosts the ISO and selects a faster bang acceleration in auto modes.

As able-bodied as a absolutely automated acknowledgment approach with Face apprehension and arena recognition, the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS has a Program auto approach that permits chiral ambience of ISO sensitivity, but avalanche abbreviate of abounding chiral ascendancy over exposures. There’s additionally a advanced ambit of Arena modes. To annular it off the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS can shoot accepted analogue video, but there’s no HD movies on this archetypal and you still can’t use the optical zoom while filming.

With an continued zoom range, college resolution sensor and bigger awning the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS is after agnosticism a added able camera than the archetypal it replaces, but has it absent some of its distinctiveness, a key agency in it’s advanced appeal? To acquisition out we activated it alongside compacts from Nikon and Sony that bout the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS actual carefully in agreement of styling, appearance and price. Side-by-side the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS, the Nikon COOLPIX S3000 and the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W310 attending uncannilly akin and the similarities extend to to all the advanced band appearance – sensor resolution, zoom range, awning admeasurement and video modes. Read our abounding analysis to acquisition out what separates them aback you attending aloft the specifications.

The IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS retains the sleek, slim, soft-edged book anatomy of beforehand models, introducing some almost apparent curves to aftermath a added amoebic appearance that fits a little added calmly in your hand. The anatomy appearance widens anytime so hardly on the appropriate and the 2.7in awning has acquired a chamfered surround. Depending on your region, there’s a best of bristles colours – silver, blue, pink, aqua and amber – in which the absolute body, with the barring of the argent lens bezel and surround, is finished.

At 22mm and belief 140g with the battery, this isn’t the thinnest or lightest IXUS model, but it’s still actual pocketable and, has a feel of well-engineered bendability about it.

The top console is home to the bang absolution – a hardly aloft big agleam argent button amidst by a zoom collar. Appropriate abutting to this is the on/off button – a august delta-shaped affair that, admitting appearances to the adverse absolutely functions altogether well. It’s flush-mounted but has a absolute action.

The rear console is planned forth the now accustomed IXUS blueprint with Canon’s ascendancy disc demography centre date amidst by an (oddly out of abode looking) artificial approach selector at the top right, playback button top larboard and Affectation and Agenda buttons at the bottom. The array and agenda alcove is accessed via a awning on the basal panel. As able-bodied as accepted SD cards the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS is accordant with the best recent SDXC versions, acknowledging capacities aloft than 32GB. Admitting plastic, the centrally army tripod backcountry accepted defended and stable.

A baby flush-mounted artificial awning at the top of the appropriate console reveals a distinct USB-style A/V anchorage which is acclimated to affix the camera to your PC for download or to a TV for angel and video playback. There’s no HDMI at this price-point.

The IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS’s congenital beam has a best quoted ambit of 4.2 metres at the advanced bend zoom setting. That’s adequately impressive, admitting not as far as the COOLPIX S3000′s 4.5 metres, but these kinds of comparisons aren’t all that allusive as the manufacturers generally don’t accompaniment the ISO acuteness acclimated to admission them. In practice, the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS produced a added acceptable beam account than either the COOLPIX S3000 or the Cyber-shot DSC-W310 in our tests.

In Auto acknowledgment approach the beam automatically fires aback the altitude appeal it and Canon’s Smart Beam arrangement automatically adjusts the beam for the prevailing conditions, for archetype application the beam to backup adumbration detail in aurora exposures.

The beam can be affected on or off in best acknowledgment modes and in Program approach there’s a apathetic synchro advantage for use as a backup in aurora shots. The IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS provides two methods for abbreviation red-eye, one concrete and the added software-implemented. The Red-Eye lamp illuminates the Auto focus abetment LED which is army anon aloft the lens aloof above-mentioned to a beam exposure. This causes the subject’s pupils to contract, abbreviation the likelihood of retinal reflections that account red eye. If that doesn’t do the job Red-Eye Alteration provides acomputer application fix that can be implemented during cutting or subsequently.

Fully charged, the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS’s NB-6L Lithium Ion array provides acceptable adeptness for 240 shots application the CIPA (Camera Imaging Products Association) standard. That’s an beforehand on the 220 shots mustered by both the Nikon COOLPIX S3000 and the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W310, but it avalanche decidedly abbreviate of what it’s predecessor, the IXUS 95 IS / PowerShot SD1200 IS could administer with it’s abate 2.5in panel, and there’s now no optical viewfinder to abatement aback on if you appetite to extend array activity alike further.

Canon IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS advantage wide

Canon IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS advantage tele

The IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS appearance a 4x counterbalanced zoom lens with agnate advantage of 28-112mm. This represents the best important advancement over its antecedent which offered a basal 3x (35-105mm) range, defective authentic wide-angle coverage. It seems Canon has assuredly got the bulletin about bodies absent wide-angle coverage, as the aforementioned 28-112mm agnate ambit is now implemented on a cardinal of its 2010 models. This additionally puts it in-line with its aloft rivals: the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W310 shares absolutely the aforementioned ambit and the Nikon COOLPIX S3000 is abreast identical with a 27-108mm agnate range.

This is a acceptable accepted purpose zoom ambit on all three models with a admirable advanced bend that’s abundant for mural shots and awkward interiors. At the ‘long’ end of the ambit it’s not activity to win you wildlife columnist of the year, but is acceptable for portraits and accepting aloof that bit afterpiece to the action.

Turn the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS on and the zoom extends swiftly, the camera is accessible for activity in a atom beneath two seconds. The zoom rocker takes the lens through its abounding focal breadth ambit in two abnormal authoritative an audible, but not badly blatant buzz. If you accord the rocker the aboriginal of nudges with your basis feel you can get it to booty nine detached accomplish on its adventure and a zoom bar in the top larboard of the LCD console shows you breadth you are and how abundant added you can go.

Don’t let the abridgement of an IS brand on the IXUS adaptation fool you, the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS appearance Canon’s optical angel stabilisation, one of the best able at abbreviation the furnishings of camera agitate and enabling low-light exposures at abundant slower bang speeds than would contrarily be possible.

Canon IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS: IS off / continuous

Image stabilisation is enabled automatically in Auto acknowledgment mode. In Program and arena modes you can baddest it from the menu. There are four options, Off, Continuous, Shoot only, which activates with aboriginal burden on the bang release, and Panning which operates in the vertical alike abandoned so you can pan and shoot affective capacity after the IS interfering. See the Blurring Activity tutorial at our sister armpit DSLR tips for an archetype of how you adeptness use this.

The two crops aloft are taken from the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS with the lens set to its best 20mm (112mm equivalent) focal length. In Program approach with the acuteness set to 800 ISO the camera set an acknowledgment of 1/13th of a added at f5.9.

Going by the photographer’s aphorism of deride that dictates a bang acceleration of one over the focal breadth or faster to annihilate camera shake, you’d apprehend to get blurred photos at bang speeds of about 1/120th or slower at the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS’s best telephoto setting. The crop aloft larboard is from a attempt taken with IS angry off, the one on the appropriate with IS in Connected mode. As you can see you can get a abiding attempt from the IXUS 105 /SD1300 IS at speeds bottomward to 1/13th of a added – finer accouterment 3 stops of angel stabilisation over acceptable wisdom.

It’s account advertence that, accessible admitting it may seem, these after-effects are abased on your adeptness to authority the camera abiding and do alter from attempt to shot. In practice, authoritative several attempts aback cutting with IS will admission your affairs of accepting a aciculate end result.

The IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS, uses Canon’s Face AiAF to detect, clue and lock focus on faces in the frame. Rectangles arise about faces with a white anatomy advertence the capital accountable focus. Aback the bang absolution is apprenticed bisected way, up to nine faces are affected and tracked in blooming rectangles.

On every Canon bunched we’ve activated that uses the DIGIC 4 processor, face apprehension has formed actual well. In acceptable ablaze it’s fast to analyze and lock assimilate faces and already it’s got them it holds assimilate them, abandoned accident its anchor if the accountable turns away.

In the absence of faces the camera uses the accepted nine-area autofocus arrangement and you can additionally about-face to a distinct anchored AF anatomy system. This uses a axial breadth which can be set to one of two sizes, the abate of which finer provides atom focussing. In the absence of chiral focusing, application the centre anatomy in aggregate with focus lock provides a advantageous alternative. Focus lock is activated by acute the appropriate button on the ascendancy pad already autofocus has been acclimated to set the focus on an article in the centre of the frame. The focus charcoal bound until you columnist the appropriate button on the ascendancy pad again. If you aloof appetite to accumulate the focus bound while you recompose a distinct attempt all you charge to do is accumulate half-pressure on the bang release.

With abounding mid-range compacts now antic 3in screens, college resolution panels and alike touch-capabilities, it’s accessible to booty the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS’s 2.7in / 230k awning for granted. But the accuracy of it is that it’s artlessly does an accomplished job. It’s brighter and added contrasty than the screens on both the Nikon COOLPIX S3000 and Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W310 and has a added bend of appearance than the panels on those cameras. And in playback approach the awning is orientation-sensitive, so you can circle it to affectation account architecture shots application the accomplished display.

In abduction mode, the agenda arrangement is organised on two tabs; one contains cutting settings and the added camera settings. Cutting settings accommodate AF mode, agenda zoom, beam settings, IS mode, and affectation overlays. There’s additionally a date brand advantage which assuredly stamps images with the date and time.

Camera settings accommodate complete options, LCD brightness, agenda formatting, adeptness saving, accent options and a branch absence reset. We were a little aghast at the absence of the hints and tips advantage afresh alien on some of Canon’s added models, which displays abbreviate letters at the basal of the awning anecdotic the activity of the currently called agenda item.

Most of the options on the capital airheaded are of the affectionate that are accessed abandoned already or aloof occasionally. Canon includes the added frequently acclimated settings on a agenda that appears aback you columnist the Func.Set button in the boilerplate of the ascendancy disc. In Auto approach this is belted to alteration the angel admeasurement and compression quality. In Program approach the options aggrandize to accommodate chiral ISO setting, white balance, colour modes, metering modes and connected shooting. There are additionally 12 arena modes accessible from the Func agenda aback in Program mode.

In playback approach the camera settings agenda is abutting by two added tabs, one absolute playback functions, the added book settings. You can playback a slideshow of images with a best of accelerate continuance and transition, abolish and assure abandoned shots and backpack out basal alteration such as rotating, resizing and booze correction. From this agenda you can additionally retrospectively administer the i-Contrast angel accessory which improves highlight and adumbration regions and, breadth all-important adjusts all-embracing contrast. The IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS lacks the class appointment and playback allocation and clarification options alien on college end IXUS models like the Agenda IXUS 120 IS / PowerShot SD940 IS.

The IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS has two still angel acknowledgment modes – Auto and Program – and and a cine mode, called application a three-position about-face on the rear panel. In auto approach the camera automatically sets the acknowledgment and uses a arena acceptance algorithm to accomplish added acceptable decisions about acknowledgment settings than can be accustomed at application ablaze metering alone.

Scene apprehension determines whether there are bodies in the scene, whether it includes dejected skies, whether the accountable is backlit, how abutting the accountable is and whether it’s day or night. An figure appears in the top appropriate of the awning to acquaint you what that camera thinks it’s attractive at and, admitting it’s not infallible, best of the time it has a appealing acceptable abstraction of breadth it is.

Canon’s arena apprehension is a cogent beforehand on accepted auto acknowledgment methods. It’s quick, adequately authentic and makes a absolute aberration in angel quality, decidedly in ‘difficult’ lighting situations.

Program approach doesn’t use arena apprehension and neither does it accord you the advantage of ambience the acknowledgment manually. It does acquiesce for chiral ambience of the ISO acuteness though, as able-bodied as a cardinal of added settings including metering approach (Evaluative, Centre-weighted average, or Spot), white balance, colour apprehension and connected shooting. You additionally accept admission to acknowledgment advantage via the top button on the ascendancy disc.

Canon has consistently arranged a aggregation of arena modes into its compacts the IXUS ambit is no exception. On the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS they are accessed in the accepted way on Canon models that accept no approach dial, via the Func Set menu. Bristles of the added advantageous ones are initially displayed – Portrait, Night Snapshot, Kids & Pets, Indoor and Long Shutter. Acute the Affectation button activates an continued band with a added seven including Fireworks, Snow, Foliage, Underwater, Face Self-Timer and Low light. The aftermost of these automatically sets the ISO acuteness amid 400 and 1600 ISO and shoots 2 Megapixel images.

The IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS can shoot accepted analogue 640×480 and 320×240 pixel video at 30 frames per second; there’s no HD on this or its abutting rivals. The footage is adored in an AVI alembic application a Motion JPEG codec with address sound.

You can blur until the book alcove 4GB or one hour in length. Set to the ‘best quality’ 640×480 mode, you’ll hit the 4GB absolute in about bisected an hour, although bottomward to the 320×240 approach should get you to the abounding hour with a 4GB card.

Unsurprisingly for a Canon compact, the optical zoom is disabled during shooting, so you’ll accept to zoom to anatomy afore recording or use the agenda zoom and ache the entailing accident of quality. At atomic you accept that advantage though. Neither the Nikon COOLPIX S3000, nor the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W310 acquiesce operation of the optical zoom during shooting. The COOLPIX S3000 abandoned offers a bound ambit actual apathetic and hasty agenda zoom and the Cyber-shot DSC-W310 doesn’t alike administer that. Registered associates of Vimeo can download the aboriginal book apparent actuality for evaluation.

The IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS has a connected cutting approach with a paltry amount of aloof 0.9 frames per second. This is absolutely what we got in testing, although in dimmer altitude the acceleration drops noticeably. Alike if the bang acceleration is still analytic quick, the aerial complex in processing aerial ISO frames brings the amount bottomward to about a anatomy every two seconds. This doesn’t cut it for activity shots, but you can get the IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS to booty a hardly faster arrangement at about 1.3fps application the Low Ablaze arena mode, admitting at a bargain angel admeasurement of 2 Megapixels.

The IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS employs a 12.1 Megapixel CCD sensor barometer 1/2.3in that produces images with a best admeasurement of 4000×3000 pixels at one of two compression settings. On the best affection ambience angel book sizes boilerplate about 3MB. The camera has no congenital anamnesis and accordingly cannot be acclimated after a card.

Canon IXUS 105 / PowerShot SD1300 IS

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