The IXUS 330's Compact Flash compartment can be found on the right side of the camera (from the rear), it is opened by sliding the clearly marked CF OPEN lever downwards. The door itself is spring loaded. Inside you will find a Compact Flash Type I slot (Type II cards are not supported). Opening the card door powers the camera off, however if there are images still being written the camera will emit a high pitch beep continually until writing is complete to warn you not to remove the CF card (why couldn't they have done this on the EOS-D30 / D60?)

On the left side of the camera, behind a rubber cover, are the A/V out and digital (mini-USB) connectors. Looks like Canon didn't take on my suggestion of sinking these connectors and having a small hinged door.

The rubber cover for these connectors is about the only thing on the entire case which doesn't look right, it simply doesn't blend in to the overall design. It's a real shame Canon didn't counter-sink these and produce a more flush design cover.

The IXUS 330 is fitted with the same extending 3x optical zoom lens we saw used in last years IXUS 300. The lens has an equivelant focal length range of 35 - 105 mm (on a 35 mm camera) and a maximum aperture of F2.7 at wide angle and F4.7 at telephoto (not that fast but typical for an ultra-compact). One thing we liked about the IXUS 300 and it's still true with the 330 is the speed at which the lens extends, it takes just about 1 second for the lens to pop out (although full startup takes longer, see timings & sizes section).

On the bottom of the camera you'll find a metal tripod mount, unfortunately (and as seems to be the case with ultra-compacts) the mount itself is too close to the camera edge (left side in this case) to be very useful. The problem with close-to-edge mounts is that they tend to cause the camera to tilt in one direction when the mount bolt is tightened. Obviously this may not be a big issue for the target user of this camera.