Canon PowerShot SD950 IS / IXUS 960 IS

The Canon Digital IXUS 960 IS pushes the boat out with its 12.1-megapixel CCD sensor. Along with a titanium body and 3.7x optical zoom lens, you'll find this rugged compact is actually quite comfortable and has plenty of features and a high ISO setting. S...

Well-designed titanium casing; great image quality; optical image stabilisation; face detection; optical viewfinder

No manual exposure controls, slightly sluggish performance

Canon's Digital IXUS 960 IS looks great and can take very nice images, but the digital camera's whopping 12 megapixels will leave you waiting between shots

If you've already got the Bentley, the yacht and the big house in the country, here's that compact camera you've been looking for.

Canon's IXUS range of high-spec compacts continues to set the standard for the rest of the industry. The 960 IS has pretty much everything you need except a wide-angle lens. It is relatively expensive, but with superb design and bomb-proof build quality,...

In the wake of the recently discontinued IXUS 900 Ti - which occupied our A-List digital-camera slot for its brief but happy life - comes its replacement the 960 IS.

A superbly easy to use and feature-laden compact that's well worth the price.