Canon IXUS 110 IS

Have bought this camera in early April as I deadly want one for my Easter holiday. Paid AU $399 for it (Digital Fun Stuff price, $15 more expensive than MSY, but much cheaper than Ted’s). Really like its looking, a little bit girly but beautiful. Widescreen also is attractive which is matched to my wife’s mobile, even though a little bit wierd without a viewfinder. As SDHC card in Digital Fun Stuff was so expensive than our suppliers, I did not buy SD card when I bought camera. Instead I used my old 512MB normal SD card, which was used for our Nikon CoolPix camera. It would get full very quick as I set picture to 12M pixels maximum. Lucky we brought my wife’s Asus laptop with us. There is only a single battery coming with camera, sometimes it is really annoying. A few weeks after we returned from Port Macquarie, I have bought two 1500mAh NB-4L batteries from ebay. And ordered a VERBATIM: 16GB SDHC PREMIUM CARD (VBM7022) after that. Ingram Micro was doing a promotion for this Class 6 premium card when I bought it, so it was cheap, only costed me about $46. Sandisk class 6 card 8GB (Extrem III) even more expensive than this. Class 6 [minimumWrite and Read speeds of (60X) 9MB and (133X) 20MB/sec respectively] is designed for large file transfer, for instance HD movie. My 110 IS also has function of HD movie recording, it is pretty clear. But there is a shortcoming for HD movie function, i.e. only support file size less than 4 GB no matter how big your SD card is as its format is FAT 32? A 16GB SDHC card can record more than one hour movie, that is more than enough for normal use. Basically with 3 batteries and 1 16GB card, we never need ask more.

Last weekend, I just found it was not very good to use Auto mode to take some photos. People in the corner of picture was used to be transformed a little bit. Except for that, I like this camera.