If you’re on the look out for a high quality and great performing compact digicam that plays nice with iPhoto, Canon’s new IXUS 300HS looks about as good as it gets.
The IXUS 300HS is a stainless steel camera with impressive low-light performance for a compact: it can shoot up to ISO 3200 at maximum resolution, or ISO 6400 at a lower resolution. The lens is a 28-104mm equivalent zoom with a lovely f2.0 aperture, while the sensor is 10 megapixels… sensible, and pretty much the maximum you want to put on a compact sensor chip while maintaining high image quality. Additionally, the 300HS has the ability to capture video at 720p, and can even shoot at 240 frames per second if you knock down the resolution to 320 x 240.
That’s all pretty impressive on a compact, but what intrigues me most are the manual controls, which include program, shutter priority, aperture priority and manual… options you tend not to see in cameras of this class. At £380, the IXUS 300HS isn’t cheap,
but it still looks to be one of the best shooting compacts you can easily drop in a shirt pocket.
[via Gadget Lab]
