Okies.. The Ixus 70 and 75 were released quite a while ago, or not. Why a review on both? Because they are the same, to a large extent.
Usually the first thing my customers checks out is the megapix (mp) 7.1 mp is already good enough for family use. If you're gonna take a picture of Johnny Depp and blow it up into a poster to wallpaper your room, read no further. I would first analyse the percentage of usage of the camera. These 2 should be suitable for holiday, etc.. or just shooting spastic photos of your class.
The average ISO of 1600 is probably something normal people dont mess around with, just set it to auto, for the ixuses. Face detection AF is something very common now for most cameras, and as usual, like the other Ixuses, there would be a 3x3 grid in which it detects faces, prominent objects etc.. for manual focus, read mence's blog, im too lazy. But this auto functionality is good enough. The AE makes sure the subject's face gets the most attention using exposure, focus. The FE has to do with your flash conditions and its relation with the face. I noamally dont elaborate on this stuff unless they ask me to, coz most dont even know what they are. Thats why Canon is smart enough to invent something called auto.
Zooming is essential. For ixuses, its always 3.0 optical, and dont bother about digital zoom, its not worth your time. The only exceptions are the Ixus ISs, like the IS 850 has 3.8x optical. For better zooming, buy the powershots.
For the my colours functions, specifically for canon cameras, its quite common in handphones, heard or vivid, sepia, black and white? But dont worry, it wouldnt be too much trouble even if u tried to make it so.
An irritating qn I always get is"What about videos?" Come on, this is a digital cam, get a powershot TX. Now I know why all those video presentations I see in school only have background music and no sound, they must have tried to film it using a normal cam. The TX has HD quality shooting and stereo sound btw..
For direct printing, connect to printer with pict bridge, I dunno much about printers but the canon and epson ones will do. Or just go to the printing shop and save on paper and ink.
What then, is the diff between the 2? The 70 so far is the slimmest Ixus, check out the dimensions. The 75 has a more appealing design, so its a bit bulkier, but still super slim. The 70, and all the other ixuses which ends with a 0 have LCd screens of 2.5 inches, average. Those that end with 5s like the 75 & 65 have 3 inches. These are probably the only differences.

My Personal Rating
Pic quality in relevance to MP - 9.5/10
Functionality & Functions - 8.0/10
User Friendliness - 8.5/10
Design (not very impt...) - 8.5/10
Total Rating - 8.6/10

Special Features - 7.0/10
(In comparison to other cameras)
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Ok I know I'm double posting, but I just have to. I've just tried out the Sony DSC-T20. A somewhat new model just released. If you people dunno, I'm a digital cam enthusiast.
Sony's cameras are undoubtly professional, as usual of course, this new cam is one of a kind. The design is like the T series, very appealing. Megapix is 8.1, quite normal for a sony camera, considering people who I've seen seriously buy are professional photographer. The other group of people who buy from sony are young people who just want to show off. What I was quite amazed by was that it had an optical zoom! I was like omg... It had like an intergreted optical lens which could zoom 3x, which means u dont see the camera lens protruding from the cam, digital zoom is precision based, so it was up to 2.0, rather average, or even below. Their Carl Zeiss lens was again used, since this is a cyber shot. Focal and convenience features were sort of average. But the camera ran like it was on a core 2 duo processor. And the ISO was like 3200!! double of my main cam and four times more than my spare cam. ISO is sth like film speed, means lower iso, longer exposure needed for the photo, other factors are like the amount of light in the surroundings and all that. And now the exclusive.. This camera has a BIONZ engine and a D-range optimizer, meaning it is an equivalent to a Sony Digital SLR!! (pause for and overwhelmingly shocking response).Of course, except that the megapixel is lower. I would recommend this to any freelance photographer who's too poor to buy an SLR. I wouldnt state the price though.. It pains me to know that there's a camera that I dream of being sold, and I cant buy it..
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Okay.. I did my EL paper 1 today.. it was quite fun, either because it was so simple or I had a lot of things to write. Obviously I couldn't write the narrative or descriptive, which were things like a blessing in disguise and I forgot the other one. I wrote about "discipline is important in education".. everything went quite well, because I had many points, but forgot to define discipline properly, so I might have written out of point haha..
Oral exam tmr, I'm not really looking forward to it, firstly its a saturday, who wants to wake up early on a saturday to go to school? And my oral isnt very good either, esp picture discussion. Its like one of those "describe and account for" questions in geog, just that geog is so much funner. Perhaps I'll practice with some tys later. Did I mention I've just got Microsoft office 2007? haha..
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Seems like everyone's having exams. But I'm actually quite slack. What I fear is not doing well because of this complacency. My parents dont even know when my exams are... I've sort of planned what to study from today onwards, though its super late.. like it starts tmr, and Im starting today. I will rely on the grace of God, it hasnt failed yet.
I'm not very excited about going to Nepal.. like theres only one main reason I chose it. Still, I think it would be fun. haha I did a survey today.. it asked me if I loved Singapore by rating it from 1 to 5, lowest to highest. So I just put 5. Then there was another qn asking why I wanted to go to Nepal. Not wanting to reveal the real reason, I wrote "Coz it's the furthest from Singapore". Ok.. haha.. nvm.
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Oh gosh, my life is tiring. Imagine homework and study, balancing a job and a consideration of resignation from another. It was really difficult getting the one at Creative, but I want my 7 A1s, and 1 D7, haha.. Ok. Crap. I can't think of anything. Except that a new multistorey carpark has been built, and I have to walk a longer way to school, not that I care, I'm moving.
Have church tmr, dont wanna fall asleep during sermon.
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I've just contracted a disease - The Fleming's Left-Hand Rule Disease, haha. Seems like everytime I start spinning my pen on my right hand, my left hand starts to form the shape needed to determine the direction of current, force, and magnetic field in the case of intercepting fields, especially when I'm doing back arounds.
Haha.. today I realised how pro my chinese oral was, I actually got a 28/40, which is like an A2..haa.. Joash got 23, and I created a new "magic trick". I wont' elaborate, but Keith was laughing like crazy over it's lamity. And there physics lesson tmr, and really is so crap, destroying my saturday.
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I just watched desperate housewives.. only a part of it.. Todays episode was about some woman who went crazy because her husband had an affair, so she held some innocent people in the supermarket with a gun while her husband locked himself in the room. In the process, there were two enemies who reconciled when one of them was shot, and died.
I took quite a long moment to think about this. How many of us would keep ourselves locked in a room knowing that there are other people's lives at stake. And how many would protect the ones we love from a lunatical person. I realised that this could happen anytime, and would we then wait till the person you hate most is dying before forgiving him? Or offer ourselves to be a hostage in the place of a loved one inside? Would we stand up, risking ourselves, to argue against an unreasonable decision.
Sometimes things happen to people and we want to help, but how can we prevent what we can't predict? How we help, is by treasuring the day, because beautiful days don't come so easily.
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To>>Alex>>Wish you could help with what and why can't you help
To>>Eliza>>It would be better to keep quiet about this kind of stuff coz I can give you a negative report.

Ok.. my mum just decided to start trying chinese medicine on me and they make me feel like the only taste buds I have on my tongue are bitter-detecting. It's like.. disgusting.. Anyway thanks to Alvin, I found out that theres a free ice-cream to get at Ben & Jerry outlets on Tuesday, which rocks unless it's not a hoax. I wonder if we will have a choice of flavors..

Maintain Consciousness - Relient K
Our concentration it contains a deadly flaw
our conversations change from words to blah, blah blah
we took prescription drugs but look how much good that did
well I think I had a point, but I just got distracted
Lately it just seems to me
like we've got the letters A.D.D.
branded into our mentality
we simply can't focus on anything
because its17, 18, 19 routine
and here at 23 it's the same old me
and that one thing of the moment
that we all happen to like will
only very temporarily
kinda break the cycle
of the double edged sword
of being lazy and being bored
we just want more and more and more
till it's all we can afford
to keep our eyes open for just one more dayt
o keep on hoping that we'll stumble on a way
to keep our minds open for just one more day
cause its completely up to usto maintain consciousness
well no one can possibly listen to this
more than 4 reps is just monotonous
we're losing interest, losing interest, losing interest
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My fingers are slightly disoriented today, they cant seem to coordinate to type properly... now im typing with two fingers.. Anyways.. i got 24 points today.. haha, isnt that an accomplishment?? At least I started receiving sentences instead of one word answers, of course, that may not mean anything.. I musn't get my hopes too high..
Today was the first day I didn't go for BB parade. I might have been looking forward to farewell the previous years, imagine no more cca, and friday becomes a happy day for you. Well actually today I really wanted to go for parade, even though it was just games and stuff, oh yeah I forgot to mention.. I collected $292 for BB Week!! haha.. Ok let's hope I dont miss BB so much.. Anyway theres gonna be an overseas trip for the sec 4s in december, sounds fun, I would rather go to Sabah than Ipoh, Whitewater rafting sounds fun enough, but short,, Sabah would mean climbing a mountain.., and about $400 more, but I think would be funner than Ipoh.. we better have a sufficient amount of ppl going..
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My fingers had a sudden inspiration, but it faded away so quickly. I'm quite interested in my geog lessons now, finally a topic worth studying - Environmental Management.. But I'm somewhat confused by my workbook, like how does more crops grown lead directly to soil erosion, unless I'm totally wrong at first, the book has a flaw. haha... I lost my inspiration and forced blogging is boring..
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I wonder for some time, all the time that has passed
A time of 15 months and 10 days.
It passed so unbearably, but miraculously.
I realized I'm still alive.
For a year, the agonizing pain laid,
in the fact that she seemed not to know I existed.

Yet this year,
when it started to start,
the friendship.
It was euphorically wonderful.
But was it false hope,
I merely expressed my feelings,
but you had to feint ignorance.
Perhaps I frightened you,
or perhaps you didn't even know.
Maybe you said it to make me give up,
or maybe not.
I haven't.
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--Post Edited--
I have forgiven
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Yesterday was exhaustful, sothis post is today.
Interclass was very.. normal.. Because we did lose the semis, and I did care about it, But I really cant help but to say I was not the only one who caused it. Extremely proud of the few of us, Tuck Yan Sophie, Naijie, Luke, Debbie, Demetrius, Eunice, myself. We did not lose because we were lousy, and I hope the team knows and understands this. We had a lot of fun practicing,, however confident I was before the competition. I knew 1st place would be a miracle. Tuck Yan was an extremely good captain, making the hard decisions that would benefit the team and class. The girls suddenly became pro during the competition, and I think I improved. I could tell that Tuck Yan seriously wanted to win, probably driven by the fact that it was the sport he was good in, and if he does blame us, I wouldnt mind at all. I just hope he doesnt read this, coz this is what I sincerely think of the game yesterday.
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The world is moving so quickly,
but my life at a standstill.
People say it's anxiety,
People say it's nervousness,
People say it's fear,
But anxiety is more than what people say,
Anxiety, like a cage,
It holds you prisoner,
And I can't escape.

Thoughts swarm in my brain.
The fear returns
I'm so frightened,
But I don't know what of.
The paranoia sweeps over my body like a giant wave.
Every day I have to fight what seems to be a losing battle.

Anxiety is pain,
It traps me,
Paralyzes.

Experience the power of pain,
The power you gain,
makes you break out,
makes me see the life,
the spirit.

Pray.
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Ok.. I know I'm like spamming videos in my blog,, but its fun.. lol

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It was farewell last friday, really fun with midnight soccer and Ps2ing, lol I trashed everyone in burnout. Anyway I would really like to thank keith for organising that small gathering at 4am, I think.. We sang songs and stuff before the Mac arrived, then we slept on the parade square until 6-7. And I have to admit I am seriously considering getting a bird, a certain kind.. hmm.. I do wish I would get to go to another BB parade, perhaps I could sneak myself in?? haha..
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Here's a mime of one of my fav songs.. lol.. He acts almost every word. I like the naive part.. haha..

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