Meet my new camera, Mr Canon Digital IXUS 70.

Kind of a silly purchase really since I already have an IXUS 50, but this one has a few extras I’ve been wanting, like high capacity SD card support (2GB+), zoom enabled during video, time lapse video, and audio recording. Of course it still has the typical dumb limitations of compact cameras, eg maximum 10 shots on timer (even though can take unlimited shots in burst mode) and maximum 2 hour period for audio and video recording.

A nice touch is that the tilt sensor is now active in both camera and playback mode (IXUS50 ignores it in the latter), so photos will always stay upright regardless of which orientation they are taken or played back in.

My favorite new feature is its nifty ability to track faces within the frame, which it does in order to control both exposure and focus. This is indicated in the viewscreen by a white frame which appears around people’s faces when you point the camera at them. So far it seems very clever at spotting faces (up to three at a time seems to work ok too).

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