Canon Ixus 285 HS

Canon IXUS 285 HS is a lightweight and compact 20.2 Megapixel Point and Shoot camera, that is equipped with an advanced digic 4+ processor that improves the image processing quality tremendously and 1/2.3-inch CMOS Sensor that captures high quality images with brilliant colours and contrast value. It comes with a powerful 12X zoom power, that lets you to get closer to your subjects and features the zoom plus technology that lets you extend the zooming capability of this device up to 24X. An important feature of this camera is Auto Zoom function that automatically detects the number of faces in the scene and adjust zoom settings accordingly. This ensures proper framing of subjects within the frame even when you give to a novice for taking a picture.
Canon IXUS 285 HS supports aperture range from f3.6 to f10, ISO sensitivity of 80 to 1600 ( making it easier to take shots in low light conditions), a  3 inch wide LCD touch monitor with approximately 461k-dot resolution and Full HD Video recording with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. There are a number of shooting modes available on the device, from portrait to smart shutter, miniature effect to monochrome, super vivid to fish-eye effect & more, so you can play with images the way you like. It supports built in flash, self timer, auto focus, red eye reduction, face detection, image stabilization, High speed USB, Eco mode (which helps you to save the battery)  and supports external memory devices such as SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards.
Canon IXUS 285 HS is compatible with Wi-Fi and NFC connectivity which allows you to share multimedia files on social networking sites at a high speed. It also enables you to take images in smaller size formats and record videos in VGA format for easy sharing & transfer on social networking websites. Another important feature of the device is Story Highlight, that uses Canon's original algorithm to create an album (movie) of about 2-3 minutes with a story line from all shot still images.