Canon Digital IXUS

The name of the company led IXUS Canon 1996 as a designation of their APS compact cameras. Since 2000, this term is used as a Canon Digital IXUS also for a series of compact digital cameras use. In the U.S. and Canada, this IXUS models are sold under the names Elph (APS ) or PowerShot Digital Elph (digital), marketed in Japan under the label of Ixy. The APS SLR cameras made ​​by Canon EOS IX were called. The IXUS series is characterized by its compact design and extravagant design. In parallel there is in Europe a second product group named PowerShot, the more directed to the end of 2008 performance-oriented users.

Models

Ultra - compact models

Wireless models

CHDK firmware essay

Resourceful programmers managed to expand by analyzing the firmware the functionality of Ixus cameras clearly. This modification is as CHDK ( Canon Hack Development Kit ) is known and allows not only the storage of image sensor content in the RAW file format, the change of all camera-specific settings to the default of the internal hardware platform boundaries. By embedding the script languages ​​BASIC and Lua, it is also possible to create your own workflows. CHDK enjoys great popularity for time-lapse photography, in stereo photography and amateur aerial photography. CHDK is saved as a folder structure on the SD card and loaded when the camera is only in the volatile memory ( RAM ) of the device; the original firmware will remain unchanged.