Canon Digital IXUS 85 IS

You shouldn't be afraid to take the Canon Digital IXUS 85 IS home to your parents. Despite its old-fashioned LCD display size, the specification is certainly up to scratch, boasting 10 megapixels, face detection and image stabilisation. It's an affordable...

Elegant and reliable; fine images and films; very approachable

Slightly pricey; doesn't boast the latest spec

Canon continues its habit of creating well-made cameras with a select few features on board. There's nothing earth-shattering on offer here -- just a solid, simple camera that takes lovely, stabilised pictures and movies. It's all the better for it

Canon's latest pocket snapper, the 85 IS, is the most recent in a torrent of compact cameras to land in the PC Pro offices recently, most from this one manufacturer. There are now no fewer than nine digital compacts in the IXUS range, and deciding which t...

Excellent build quality and ease of use undermined by distinctly average image quality.

The Canon IXUS 85 IS is a 10 megapixel pocket camera. It has a 3x optical zoom lens. As with other cameras in this Canon range, picture quality is about as good as it gets when it comes to small compacts. I would happily buy this camera.

Style - build quality - picture quality - viewfinder - excellent LCD screen

Shutter delay with flash could be faster

This is one of the very best pocket sized cameras on the market. Picture quality is excellent and the camera also has an attractive design. You will also find one or two extra features over and above those offered by other pocket cameras.