Canon Digital IXUS 900 Ti

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By Will Greenwald, CNET.com
Dec 28, 2006

The 10-megapixel Canon Digital IXUS 900 Ti manages to be stylish without being inconvenient or awkward. Its sturdy metal body, an attractive matte-gray with black accents, is smooth and slightly curvy, and at 190gs and 28mm thick, it's just the right size to fit into a jacket pocket.

Design (cont.)
All the controls are on the camera's right side, so nearly every button is within thumb's reach for comfortable one-handed use. A 2.5-inch LCD screen takes up most of the camera's remaining back panel but leaves enough room for an optical viewfinder. The viewfinder is small and awkward, but it provides a welcome alternative to the LCD.

Features
While the IXUS 900 is heavy on style, like most of the IXUS series, it's pretty light on features. You can adjust the white balance, the exposure compensation, the ISO sensitivity, and the metering settings, but in true point-and-shoot fashion, most shooting happens with the camera in automatic mode or through its handful of scene presets. It offers 30fps VGA movie capture or XGA (1,024 x 768) movies at 15fps.

Unlike the IXUS 850 IS, with its relatively fast, wide-angle lens, the IXUS 900 sports a rather mundane F2.8-to-F4.9, 37mm-to-111mm-equivalent model. It features the recent Digic III image processor, which Canon claims improves performance, image quality, and battery life over the previous chip. We've haven't seen any significant improvement over past-generation cameras, but the IXUS 900's predecessors, the IXUS 60 and the IXUS 65, already boast strong performance and image quality.

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