Easy to use, 1.25 times focal length of 35mm lenses provides very cost effective telephotos for wildlife shots. Able to use all EOS lenses. Superb flash system with E-series flash guns.

Winder is limited to 1 frame per second.
Only one slide film in APS format from Fujicolour (though it is superb). Auto metering is accurate for prints but needs intervention at times for slides (but this is still true of most modern SLRs. 1.25 times the focal length of wide angles means obtaining true ultrawides can be expensive in this format.

I really like the H format in APS, and I use this camera almost exclusively to create scanned digital images from print film using a professional service - so much so that I never have conventional prints made. I use 35mm lenses on the body, hence with the smaller APS format only the centre of these lenses is being used to record the image not the edges, so the results are much better than you might at first think compared to the 35mm format. I do still sometimes take slides and find the Fujichrome 100ix really is superb and the slides are returned in 35mm mounts for easy projection. Although I still own 35mm kit and indeed medium format, I find that my preferred choice to carry around is the IX Lite (actually called an IX-7 in the UK) with three zooms - Sigma 17-35mm HSM, Canon 24-85mm USM and Canon 75-300mm HSM IS. With this outfit and with a goodly number of years of photographic experience I obtain the excellent results that I am looking for.

Customer Service

Never needed it, so far.

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Lite Weight, small size, easy to carry &
pack, Midroll change, Mostly use Full Auto, Love the picture sizes,

It is a must to find a suitable developer, everybody can not do APS well. Developing is more expensive. Flash is slightly weak.

Love it so far. Looking for another one on Ebay

Customer Service

None needed so far

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Use a Rebel G also

Light
Small
Many Features
Mid-Roll Change
Three Formats
Large Display
Fast Focus

APS format doesn't offer excellent quality and variation.
Expensive developing that takes days if made by KODAK.
Feels very Plastic.

A very nice camera for beginners who want to Switch to SLR. Light and small, it can be taken along trips, excursions or any other events. The focus is fast and reliable. I was very disapointed from the format. It didn't give me the variation i wanted (+slide film) and I found it difficult to find the film I wanted.

Customer Service

Not needed.

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Canon EOS 300

Sharp focus, relativly fast, versatile print format, easy negative storage, easy loading, compatable with other EOS lenses.

I can't think of any, other than it being mostly plastic.

Great camera for it's money. Rated highly for APS SLR cameras. Bottom line, this camera could be better and I'm sure Canon will build a newer/better one, some time in the future. But isn't that the way it works? Better things are always coming out. I recommend this camera if you want an APS camera, I truly dispise point and shoot for anyone, it may be complicated at first, so read the manual! That's what it's for!

Customer Service

Not yet used.

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APS T550, but no other SLR APS cameras.

All the features we have come to expect from APS - midroll change, 3 fun formats etc etc - built in to a 'serious' SLR.

poor picture quality (I can't say this often enough).

I really liked this camera - it is easy to use, and achieves a good balance between helping your photography onto a higher level and allowing you to take more creative control. It is with a heavy heart that I sold mine because of the consistently poor picture quality, which made pictures taken using the panoramic mode disappointing, and enlargements pointless. When I upgraded to the Nikon F80 and saw the results, it made me sick to think of all the shots which the IX-7 had not done justice to. If you want to progress from a point & shoot camera to something with more possibilities, then this may at first seem like a good option, but please beware. If you are willing to spend this amount of money on a camera, why not invest it in a 35mm system which will produce great pictures time after time? I know I wish that I had.

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various members of the Canon Ixus family. Canon Eos 300, Nikon F80

*Exposure data on the back of the print.

*Must be the smallest SLR with interchangable lenses.

*Accepts EOS lenses and other acc's.

Maximises the value of APS.

* A little bigger than other APS cameras.

It uses APS film, so it has the weaknesses of APS film, along with its strengths. Weaknesses like:
* smaller negative size,
* only uses part of an EOS lens, ie wide angles are not as wide, tho' long lenses are longer.

I wouldn't have written this review except that the last review is misleading. This camera, with a decent lens, say an EF50/1.8, delivers the best picture that can be achieved from APS film. Comparing it to an F80 is like if I gave the F80 low marks on image quality because it didn't match up to my Hasselblad.

I bought this camera for APS features, especially having shutter speed, aperture, exposure compensation... printed on the back of the print. If I put on a small lens, (I often use EF24/2.8) it isn't much bigger than an APS P&S, with all the functionality of a midrange SLR. Plus, it uses all the EOS gear I already had. I use it and love it for typical family candid shooting. I also use it for test shooting which is where the exposure data comes in very handy.

When I'm making enlargements of 8x10 and up - I use a bigger film formatted camera.

My ratings are based on the fact that it is an APS camera, and I am comparing it to other APS cameras. The camera does not measure up to my EOS-3 in a number of ways, but it is not designed to.

Customer Service

Canon is great, not cheap.

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EOS 500
EOS-3

Exposure data on the back of each print.

*Must be the smallest SLR with interchangable lenses.

*Accepts EOS lenses and other acc's.

*3 print formats with no fuss.

Maximises the value of APS film.

* significantly larger than other APS cameras.

It uses APS film, so it has the weaknesses of APS film, along with its strengths. Weaknesses like:
* smaller negative size,
* only uses part of an EOS lens, ie wide angles are not as wide, tho' long lenses are longer.

We are not supposed to write two reviews on the same product but I have thought more about my last review and have changed my mind. If anyone with the power to delete my last review, cares to do so, it is fine with me. Although what I said in the last review is all true, I would not recommend this camera today to ... almost anyone.

I bought this camera in very early 1999 and have not regretted it, but I may be a special case. I have 3 other still-cameras, and I use them just as much as this one. Plus, in 2001 there are other options. I am surprised that other reviewers have not emphasized that the camera prints the exposure data (f/stop, aperture, s-speed, lens, exposure compensation, date time, ...) on the back of the prints. This is THE REASON I bought this camera and not another camera. If this is what you want, get this camera, especially, of course, if you already have EOS gear. OTHERWISE: If you want a small camera which produces decent pictures get a little APS P&S with a fixed-focal length lens, since it is much handier than this camera. If you want an small SLR with the features of this camera, get something like a Rebel2000/EOS300. That camera is only a little bigger, gives much more enlargeable images, uses your whole lens, huge choice of film...

The Bottom Line: This camera is an APS SLR. It gives you a bit of both worlds but it also gives you the worst of each world. It doesn't have the minute size of an APS camera. And it doesn't give you the image enargeability and choices of a 35mm SLR.

I apologise to Ella Jamison. She is right. I didn't see it as first from my own perspective but now I understand what she is saying. This time I'll rate from a normal user perspective. Last time, I also wasn't aware how expensive the IXLite/IX7 is relative other APS P&S's and 35mm SLR's.

Customer Service

Canon is great, but not cheap.

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EOS 500
EOS-3

• Great color and overall picture quality
• APS features are terrific
• The 22-55 mm lens is highly versitle and more than adequate for most any shot
• Very easy for a beginner like myself

• Film development is pricy, but that will be the case with all APS cameras

This is a really excellent camera which, unfourtunatl, is being phased out by Canon. It performs very well, even on full auto! This means that the IX Lite/7 makes a great beginners camera. It also comes with a high quality lens for a pretty svelt price. Superb.

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not yeat needed

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Compact, photo features, SLR, LCD screen, drop-n-load, APS format

consumes battery quickly, it seems.

Good features and functions. Took on trip to Australia and New Zealand -- all the pictures turned out great! Could tweak better indoor and auto focusing though. Like the APS format, especially H format, so good value for that. Otherwise, go for standard 35mm SLR.

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Nikon Nuvis and other Nikon SLRs

Full-featured, but still small and light. The photo quality is fairly good in bright light, but not as good indoors.

Auto-focus not as accurate as I expected.

The IX Lite is a good to excellent camera, with a lot of convenience features. However, I've been a bit disappointed with the quality of some of the shots (focus/exposure problems). But overall, I would recommend it over an APS or 35mm point and shoot because of the flexibility it offers.

Customer Service

No problems with camera, thus no comment on customer service.

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