{"id":930,"date":"2007-10-18T21:34:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T21:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/canon-digital-ixus-70.htm"},"modified":"2009-01-27T22:39:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T22:39:20","slug":"canon-digital-ixus-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/canon-digital-ixus-70.htm","title":{"rendered":"Canon Digital Ixus 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just got home to find that Amazon has delivered my new toy &#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&#038;keywords=Canon%20Digital%20Ixus%2070&#038;tag=marsweblo-21&#038;index=electronics-uk&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738\">Canon Digital Ixus 70<\/a>.  Whilst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/my-leap-into-digital-imaging.htm\">I still take the majority of my photos on my Nikon D70<\/a>, carrying a body and a couple of lenses (as well as the paraphernalia that going anywhere with two small children involves) is sometimes a bit of a bind &#8211; it would be nice to have a good camera that I can slip in a pocket and take anywhere.  Perhaps a mobile phone camera would fit the bill, but most of them have pretty poor lenses (necessarily so in a device that size) and when <!--Static Ad --><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/awclick.php?mid=1257&#038;id=87738\">Vodafone<\/a><br \/>\n wanted over \u00c2\u00a3300 for me to upgrade to the Nokia N95, I decided that I&#8217;d be better off buying a separate camera.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always liked Canon&#8217;s Ixus range of compact cameras &#8211; even when they used film &#8211; and the Digital Ixus 70 looks great to me. 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