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Summary: First Impressions: Excellent Value for money
Review: Given that digital camera prices keep falling, and steeply for the higher end models, this camera is almost a steal. At under $200 for a 3.2 megapixels this camera is an excellent buy (at least in 2003!). I have had this camera for less than a month and first impressions:
- Photo quality is excellent. Best results if you are shooting with lots of light, either daylight or indoors.
- ISO 50 mode gives you the best results.
- Consumes lots and lots of battery power. Trying to learn the camera controls used up a two AA pack in less than 90 mts. Go for the NiMH rechargeables. Will save $$$
- Most of the controls can be understood without reading the manual. The manual itself can be quite intimidating, so try to understand the controls by tinkering around with the camera itself.
- Best photo quality is to be had under the Superfine and Large settings. File sizes at this setting can be as large as 2MB.
- Get a 256 MB or larger flash card.
- File transfer with the usb connection seems a bit slow, especially when transfering a full 256 MB flash card worth of contents.
- Flash is quite difficult to use. At close distances it tends to whiten everything in its wake, and at moderate distances it seems too weak to do anything useful!
- Noise is considerable at ISO 400 setting. Therefore, shoot at 50 or 100.
- Videos are reasonably sharp. the 640x480 mode creates large files (approx 25MB) of ok sharpness.
- the images tend to be a bit on the softer side. For the price this camera is an absolute steal. Of course you do not get an optical zoom, nor can you control the depth of field, or the shutter speed with this model, but this model is meant to be a starter model...
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Summary: Great camera, great price!
Review: This camera works great! We bought it right before our vacation and we were so glad we did. It is easy to use and the pictures are so clear! Great zoom and the movie mode is just awesome! Very happy with it. Couldn't believe the low price!
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Summary: No Zoom
Review: A good solid camera at an excellent price. My only complaint, and it's a big one, is that the zoom feature is practically useless. All pictures that I use the zoom on come out blurry.
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Summary: Great for taking the step from 35mm Digital
Review: The Canon A300 packs a lot of features for a low price. Its user friendly, has a good internal zoom lens and comes with great photo editing software. I strongly recommend getting recahrgeable batteries. The best thing is that I can shoot all the pictures I want and then edit them later. If you're wary of making the change from film to digital, don't be. This camera makes it painless for the digital novice and the pictures are very nice.
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Summary: Great!
Review: I love this camera. It is perfect for carrying along to catch those special moments, with either photo or movie clip. I do not enjoy carrying the larger movie cameras and this is just right for me. I love the pictures, they are very clear and have excellent color. I too would like the batteries to last longer, however I noticed the change battery pack message shows up before the power is actually gone. I just keep using it until it stops and then change the batteries. I plan to get rechargeables but for today, I am in love.
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Summary: A good low cost high quality camera
Review: This is my first digital camera and while I was camera searching there are two very important things that you have to take into consideration. One is the type of media storage (CF or SD memory), and the other is the type of battery it uses. When I was deciding which one to buy it was between an Olympus and a Canon.
What I noticed about the Olympus camera that I didn't like was that it uses XD memory cards which is only made for Fuji, Olympus, and Toshiba cameras making it extremely expensive to purchase memory. The Canon uses CF memory which is the cheapest out there and can also be used in your PDA and MP3 player making it's versatility a plus.
Now with ALL digi cams that use AA batteries it will drain quickly if you use the LCD viewfinder and flash. If you use NiMH rechargable batteries then expect those batteries to drain a whole lot quicker. This is true for Nikon, Fugi, Kodak and ALL other cameras too.
Now even though the A300 doesn't have optical zoom it's digital zoom doesn't skimp on the quality. Made for XP users plug and play via USB cable. And the software that comes with it is okay but, if you use Windows XP then you might want to things simple and use the picture viewer to edit pics. And when your done with that head over to Snapfish to develope your edited pictures.
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Summary: Fits budget with quality and features
Review: An exceptional camera ..., takes excellent images and surprisingly clear and smooth video with sound!. Uses the same DiGiC image processor as Canon's high-end EOS 10D. Color balance is excellent, skin tones look great. Easy to use with many features and options. The low light focus assist lamp is neat and photo-stitch feature for panoramic shots is really cool! Does use batteries quickly but it is to be expected since it only uses 2AA's while most use 4 or proprietary. NiMh batteries perform much better. AA size batteries are a plus since they can be found virtually anywhere and probably even that nearby electronic gadget if needed. Originally bought this camera to take photos of my two young children and discovered that the video works great to record those special moments, like my daughter's first bike ride without training wheels! The kids love to watch the clips over and over again. It will shoot up to 3min of video, the number of clips depends on the CF card size. The only drawbacks I found are the fixed focal length, long recharge times after flash, and no TV hook up. I definitely recommend this camera. After researching other digital cameras nothing else currently can compare to the Canon for the price.
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Summary: A convert's opinion
Review: I am a recent convert to digitial from an advantix camera. Ive had this camera for a month now, and it is the best thing i have ever bought. I knew that when I saw this in the flyer, we would be getting it. Anyways, the batteries that it comes with are garbage. they didnt even last long enough to change the settings. I did buy 4 energizer rechargables though, and each pair has lasted me a good 2 or 3 days I strongly recommend using the viewfinder to take shots and use the lcd to review shots to save on battery. The digital zoom is not that good, but im surprised i can still catch the license plate of a car that almost hit me. The movie mode is ok. its much better outdoors than indoors The memory card lasted a while, but i really wanted to get better shots, so I got the 128 mb card. With the new space, I was able to catch a video of a flock of ducks crossing the road and holding up traffic for 10 minutes i agree with many of the opinions here. If your a person that just likes to take average shots without paying too much, then this camera is for you. If you buy 2 pairs of rechargebles, you will be fine. I guess in a few years, ill probably stick to canon when the 10mpxl cameras come out
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Summary: Excellent Digital Camera
Review: Bought this camera after reading the reviews here at amazon.com. I was a bit worried about the battery life. After starting to use it, I did not have any problem with batt life. If works like other D.Cameras. I bought a rechargeable kit anyway. I used the batts that came with the camera and I was able to play with the LCD for setup and filled my 16 MB compact flash and even downloaded the pics. The camera sometimes says that the batts need to be changed but once you switch if off and turn it back ON, it works fine like before. I tried this 2 times and was able to fill another 16 MB card. Ths pics are great and the movie mode is really cool. The digital zoom is [weak]. Wish it had atleast a 2x optical zoom. Anyway I use the software to Zoom the pics so that 's not a big problem for me. This is a great camera for price you pay.
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Summary: Great For It's Price
Review: I'll admit there are better cameras than this, but only if you're willing to spend an arm and a leg for one. I've had this camera for around 3 or 4 months now, and it's been great. the photo quality is excellent unless you need to zoom, then it's only so-so. one thing that's overlooked on most cameras is the flash, which is hardly rated at all and hard to really find out about. this one works pretty well for short to medium range pictures, but doesnt fare so well at the long range. on the battery issue, i've actually had no problems with it and even though i use it more it tends to outlast my cd player. i use rayovak rechargeables in mine and take a lot of pictures (i filled up the 16mb card it comes with with the low rez pictures with no problem) if you dont use rechargeables, you should always carry some extras with you, you'll need them quite a bit. it's actually pretty easy to figure out once you get used to it, though at first it can be slightly annoying. the lcd screen is a rather nice feature on this one and works a lot better at aiming your shot than the viewfinder is. the videos you can take with it are alright, if you're wanting to make videos though this isnt the one for it, but a nice feature none-the-less. all in all, a great camera for me. not professional quality or anything, but still great, especially for the price. if you print out photos with it those look quite well too. my only complaint about this camera are the slow loading time (after you take a picture it takes it a moment until you can take another) other than that, i wouldnt change a thing about it.
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