How to Snap stunning ski holiday pics with your Canon IXUS 70

Canon’s dinky IXUS 70 is a great pocket-size snapper, but squeezing the most of it can still be tricky in awkward conditions, such as those on the slopes.

Follow our guide and you’ll get professional looking snaps every time.

Step 1: Stabilise yourself!
You’ll have enough trouble staying upright on the slopes without worrying about keeping the camera level. Invest in a mini tripod like the Gorillapod and keep your photos on the level. Its unique design will let you wrap it around stable objects, so you don’t even need a flat surface to take a decent picture.

Step 2: Suit up in waterproofs
Guard against your IXUS taking an early bath by investing in a waterproof casing for it. Sure, its unlikely to get submerged in water during a skiing trip, but this case will also make sure it stays free from damp, which is just as dangerous to its sensitive innards.

Step 3: Scene selector
You don’t need to spend ages fiddling with settings to get great shots from the IXUS 70, because of its pre-set scene modes and intelligent software. Just dip into them and choose landscape, portrait or the camera’s special ‘Snow’ mode for great shots that compensate for the lighting conditions.

Must have accessories
Gorillapod can be wrapped around whatever’s handy (even your ski pole) to take steady shots. Combined with your – The only tripod that works better without a flat surface, the GorillapodIXUS’s self-timer, it’s the best accessory to take great photos on the slopes.

Canon WP-DC13 Waterproof case – Guarding against dangerous damp on the slopes is a tricky business, unless you slip your IXUS inside this case. It’ll keep it clean, dry and safeguard your snaps.

More memory – It’s a photographer’s ultimate frustration: running out of memory when there are pictures just itching to be taken. Invest in a second, or larger single card and avoid being stuck on the slopes but unable to take pictures.

Related Articles:

1. Canon Powershot D10: water camera!The Canon PowerShot D10 loves water. If it loved water anymore it would grow gills, fins and stink worse than a kipper left out the refrigerator for weeks on end. Luckily it doesn’t. If it did, it would be a pretty odd compact camera. The fact that the Canon PowerShot D10 can go to a depth [...]...
2. Canon Selphy CP780 is a printer sprinter!Canon has just unveiled the Canon Selphy CP780 compact printer – an upgrade to the previous compact photo processor, the Canon CP760. So why should we take not? Because it only prints your pics at a whopping ten per cent faster than its predecessor. Okay, so it’s the Cristiano Ronaldo of printers in terms of [...]...
3. Canon HG10Gone are the days of shooting fuzzy home movies fit only for You’ve Been Framed. Todays high-definition movie makers like this Canon HG10 camcorder offer all the trappings an aspiring movie mogul could need. But is it enough? Read our full review to find out. Pros Canon’s most affordable Full HD (1080) camcorder is a beauty. The [...]...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Rate this article