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I’m about to blog a review on the Canon Digital Ixus 130 (14.1 megapixels, HD video recording) but beforehand, do note that this review is coming from an average person who knows nothing about ISO, optical lens, light metering and such jargon, one who just wants a good user-friendly digital camera that takes beautiful pictures!
The few points I’ll be stressing on would be:
- Exterior appearance
- Display quality
- Navigation
- Features
- Photo and video quality
Without further ado, let’s begin with the first aspect: ↓
Exterior Appearance
If you have been one who always held on to large, brick-like gadgets, you’d find the Canon Ixus 130 to be very slim, compact and fitting to the palm. The measurements are:
Horizontal length: 9cm
Vertical length: 5.5cm
Thickness: 1.5cm
However its built is rather flat so getting a good grip by the side might prove difficult for big hands.
As you can see above, the buttons aren’t too small, which is good. In terms of its exterior, it may seem normal to those who have or had slim and compact cameras. Besides silver, there are 3 other available colors: Standard black, striking pink and funky orange — very bold colors!
On with the display quality… ↓
Display Quality
The screen dimension is 4.2cm x 6cm.
The display quality is marvelous, the colors are so vivid and vibrant that you would definitely enjoy going through the photos in your Ixus 130. When you transfer the photos to your computer, the quality is just as stunning as you view them in the camera itself. I’ll provide more visual on this later.
Another thumbs up to the Canon Ixus 130 is that you can rotate the pictures simply by tilting the camera as shown below. ↓
With that, you can view the photos horizontally or vertically on the spot, just by tilting the camera. By the way, this camera is fully button-operated, no touch screen features!
Navigation
To select functions manually (such as adjusting for night mode, portrait mode and others), it may take awhile to get used to the navigation however there are quick keys to basic and usual functions like macro, brightness, self-timer and flash.
In addition, there’s an auto mode which helps select appropriate scene/feature upon capturing. Suppose you are taking an up-close shot, it will automatically activate macro mode for you.
Picture Quality
Now we’re at the meat: Image quality.
What I’m about to show you in awhile are some photos taken by the Canon Ixus 130, and how clear it is when you zoom in or crop a certain part.
N/B: The pictures that are posted below has been resized to 400 x 300 pixels. So the actual 14.1 pixels quality may differ. But the zoomed in are cropped from the original sized of 14.1 pixels.
Example: ↓
↑ The full picture that had been resized to 400 x 300 pixels.
Cropped from the original size (4320 x 3240 pixels ) and zoomed in x 5.
↕ Cakes at Starbucks
Zoomed in x 3.
↕Starbucks bottles and cups
Zoomed in x 5
↕ Miniature DIY coffee shop set
Zoomed in x 3
Having these shown, you can assure yourself that zooming in closer or cropping a certain part of the picture will give you quite a reasonable quality. It isn’t all pixeled and blurry.
Canon Ixus 130 is capable of zooming in up to 10 times.
Features
Some awesome features to spice up and bring your photos to life!
It has most of the basic features that you can find in other cameras, features such as White & Black, Sepia, Night mode, portrait and so on. Therefore, let’s touch on features that other cameras might not have. ↓
Fish-eye effect ↓
Miniature effect ↓
What the miniature effect does is blurring the top of the focused area to make it look smaller.
Kids & Pets mode ↓
To capture active moving things.
Foliage ↓
My favorite mode. It makes colors so bright and vivid! There’s also a Color Mode whereby you can choose what colors you wish to stand out.
Now let’s speak a bit about what might be a downside for this camera. ↑
The one thing I noticed about this camera is that it has the tendency to blur some parts of the picture to the point it does get annoying especially when you want the whole image to get captured. The blurring is good for artistic photos, without the need to edit them in the computer, no doubt. Sometimes you want a normal picture.
Nonetheless…
You just need to get used to the functions and know how to select and capture.
It is not impossible to take a full picture without any blurring effects, as shown beneath. ↓
( ↑ Sushi King’s standard is seriously declining! They are using long beans to substitute green soy peas! This is unforgivable! If this keeps up, sheep might not want to dine in Sushi King anymore! *ROAR*)
Video Quality
See and listen for yourself. XD ↓
Summary and Conclusion
So what do you think?
Is it a good camera? Before I end this, here’s a summary regarding the Canon Ixus 130 specs:
- 14.1 megapixels
- HD video recording
- Maximum zoom in x10
- Support up to 32GB (SD memory card)
- Battery lifespan – 6 hours.
- USB outlet
As for price, I got mine for RM1148, inclusive of screen and lens protector.
Overall, I’m quite satisfied with it. Although the previous camera I had which was the Lumix 6 mega pixels was just as good, I like Canon for its capability to capture photos with vibrant colors. The constant blurring does annoy me but it can be worked out without smashing the camera. (Laughs)
Well then, this review is brought to you by Ms Aya/Sheep, an ordinary “O” type girl.
The content may not be according to how digital professionals would put it so if you do have the same camera model and would like to contribute your opinions, you are very welcome to do so.
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