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I was so happy to sign it off when this package arrived at my door around 3 months ago. After so long I’ve waited, finally I owned my personal digital camera. For a fan of photography, Canon finally designed a chunk of titanium which has the features I’ve always wanted, at least in a compact camera.

Enough said of how I feel, I’ll show you the pictures taken from the Canon Digital IXUS 960IS.

The leaf is taken at macro mode, with a center weighted average setting.

and this too. Love this photo alot, no idea why, maybe it’s the mesmerising colour.

The color accent mode ain’t bad too. The camera allows you to select the desired color and walah! I decided to choose brown.

The above is taken with manual mode and all other settings by default, flash did not fire under daylight. Compare it with below:

With a switch to foliage mode, the 960IS changes to a preset configuration and fired the flash. Sweet, green looks greener now.

Holding it with a tripod on my desk, I took this picture without zooming in aiming at my Me to you bear.

Again, I took the picture at the same angle at the maximum optical 3.7x zoom.

I went beyond the optical zoom lens limit and zoomed in with the digital 9.3x zoom. I’m really amazed with Image Stabilizer (IS) by Canon, you have to use it for yourself to believe.

Lastly, and the most I can go, is 15x digital zoom. Reading the bear’s foot is not a problem at all.

This is the strong point for the IXUS series, the amazing IS makes zooming up to 15x pausible, even without a tripod.

Despite all the manual settings, the auto mode is almost perfect. This is a night shot taken at the highest point of Melbourne. Fantastic isn’t it? The crazy fast DIG!C III image processing on this 960IS really stunned me. I couldn’t capture a picture as magnificent as the above even with manual settings, perhaps maybe it’s me who lack of photography skills.

The night shot of this camera is adequately acceptable. As all other reviews pointed out, any ISO setting higher than 400 will have noticable noise. Unless you’re trying to capture a bullet shooting at you, don’t think you’ll ever use it though. =)