It's a good camera but has a few issues – It's a good camera but not the best. I have a Canon DSLR, the 550D, but I got the ixus 1000hs because I needed something small for situations where lugging around a DSLR isn't appropriate.

The image quality is good, noise levels at higher ISOs arent very good but thats typical of a slimline compact digicam.

continuous autofocus in movie mode isnt the best, fails to focus sometimes or is slow. I also realised my cam has a dead pixel on the sensor and it's pretty noticeable in movies but I only realised when it was much too late to take it back.

Cannot focus in very low light at all, fails consistently

Flash has a pretty small range but then again most compact digicams have the same. But also, the flash is a bit unreliable and will make subjects way too bright and contrasy a lot of the time. Good looking, compact, good image quality Contrasty flash, bad low light performance, autofocus in movie mode not the best