The cannon 870 IS is a a compact camera with a great design and looks which woulld shy makers of porsche and ferari .
The silver color that I got is flawless in design and with a compact and sleek and is a good upgrade over the earliar 800 IS. The same model has diffeent names in diffrent countries with cannon powershot SD870 IS or in europe being branded as Cannon Digital ixus 870.
It offers a larger screen than its predecessor at 2.5 inches and has a 3.8 optical zoom and a 8 meg pixel camera IS(image stabilization) with 8 iso sensitivity modes and 7 normal modes .
It also has sleek half metal, half plastic body with mixture of matt and gloss fisnish and weigs only 180gms(with memory card and battery) which is higher in its segment but still delight to carry . The only bad thing is the battery life as on an average it lasts only 4-5 hours