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Summary: Great Camera for the price
Review: I baught last years version of this camera the A40, in December 2002. I love it. These cameras are easy to use for beginners and let you take control with manual features if you want. the included softwarwe is good, downloading pictures to your PC could not be much easier. The camera's size is not as small as other competing models but it fits in your hands well and is easier for me to handle than some of the smaller ones I tried out at stores. This years model (the A60) has a lower price and bigger memory card than The model I got last year (A40) so to me its more of a good thing for less. That aside there are some things that I recomend you buy to go with this camera. First is rechargable batteries. You get more time out of them than alkilyne batteries and they are cheaper in the long run. Buy two sets if you plan to take a lot of pics.
Second is a larger capicity memory card, 16Mb will not hold that many photos at high res. I reecomend a 128Mb card or 256Mb card.
Also get a nice camera bag to keep your camera, batteris and memory cards in. I got a bag that hold my battery charger too, nice if you go away for more than a few days the charger is handy if needed.
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Summary: Great-performing A60
Review: One of these days, I'll be just as good with Aperture Priority-shooting on this digital camera as I am with my Canon SLR, but there's no need to hurry. In all-automatic mode, this A60 is great!!! The Canon lens is superb. Pictures I took of my Siberian husky on the lawn showed in excellent detail my dog's blue eyes, whiskers and fur, plus the green strands of grass of the lawn. The metering-, flash and other electronic systems are superb. Indoors inside the house, and indoors at a restaurant... the camera performed very well with perfectly (flash-)illuminated and focused pictures. It was also easy to review pictures taken and deleting those I didn't care for. Using the USB to copy files onto the hard drive was straightforward. I bought 8 NIMH-rechargeable batteries plus charger as well as an AC-adapter. ( I shouldn't have bought the AC-adapter; the rechargeable long-life NIMH batteries are sufficient.) I also bought a Simpletech 128MB CF card since the CF card that came with the camera was good only for a handful of shots. The 128MB-CF card will go a long way since I've started taking 1-megapixel pictures. [ 1MP pictures are easier to send via email] I've also used the picture "editor" software for cropping and to reduce red-eye; learning how to do these things was easy. I am extremely pleased and I highly recommend the Canon A60. Picture-quality is superb; the menu system is straightforward and user-friendly. The more-commonly used options are easy to remember and use and result in high-quality pictures. Moreover, there is more to the camera (macro-photography, movies, "stitching" for panoramic shots) to challenge one's creative photography cravings. [ But do remember: it is necessary and most useful to read the well-written manual. ]
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Summary: Don't Drop It
Review: I found this camera to be top notch for the money....that is until I dropped it. Yes, it is my fault that I dropped it, and unfortunately, people do drop things. Now, I get the dreaded "E18" error. In essence, the lense will not retract, and the camera, not liking this, shuts off. This camera fell from my lap to a carpeted floor, a distance of two feet. I wonder what would have happened if I dropped it from eye level to a hard floor or cement. The truth is I loved the camera, but if you figure that at some point in the camera's lifetime that you might drop it, I would either look elsewhere or keep your fingers crossed.
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Summary: camera love
Review: If you go to a store where these are on display and put one in your hands, you will be forced to buy it; it feels that good.
When you have had it 2 weeks, you will love it more.
After 20 years or so, you'll still prefer it.
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Summary: Great Comeras Beware of Bad Customer service
Review: I bought the A70 which takes great Pictures the colors are vivid and it is easy to use. I purchased an underwater case for it which leaked and ruined my month old camera. Customer service was rude, blamed me and then tried to bargain with me to fix it for $190 instead of the $280 that they initially requested. The underwater case has a 7 DAY WARANTY and the camera is not covered for water damage. My father had a similar problem with his $1000 Nikon digital which just stopped working for no aparent reason, they claimed it was water damage and tried to bargain with him to buy a rebuilt one for $500. So beware of bad customer service. Canon's customer service has all bad unreasolved reviews at the Better business Bureau
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Summary: The best in these category!!!
Review: Really the best in these category!
I have one and according to my imaginary i will have 7500 photos taken by this one in 2004 November.
Thanks to CANON!
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Summary: First real digital camera
Review: I read many reviews before picking up this camera, only recently (after owning it for months) have I read one that talks about the lag time between the time you press the button all the way down until the picture is captured. It's longer than normal and it will affect your shots. But at least I know what causes the lag, charging the flash unit. If lighting is enough where flash is not needed, no lag. Fresh batteries don't make a difference.
Other than that, I am satisfied with the quality. For the price, you get what you pay for: only stores pics in compressed (not raw) format, no aperature bracketing, etc.
The movie mode is much cooler than I thought it would be though, love to take mini-movies of the kids (2 and 5 yrs) and show them (over and over).
So: outdoor pics and movies *yeah*
indoor usage *boo* - keep shopping. Better yet, do what I should have - get to the photo store and wrap your hands around some cameras! Don't listen to me, make your own choice.
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Summary: Proof 2 million pixels is more than enough...
Review: After asking around about what essential specs to get on a camera, I came down to a list of the following: - Minimum of 2 million pixels,
- At least 3 * optical zoom,
- Perferably made by one of the long-time camera makers (For better lens quality). To that, I added a few requirements of my own: - Should look good, (Hey. I'm a sucker for appearance when it comes to technology)
- Some settings I can play around with, (I want to be able to influence diaphragma settings, flash usage, shutter times, etc)
- It should have the feel of a regular camera (I want to FEEL I'm using a camera, rather than some light-weight plastic box)
- It should be afordable. After all of these, and reading some reviews and recommendations from friends, I decided I wanted a Canon. While looking at a number of cameras, I finally decided on the A60. I figured 2 million pixels would be enough, considering I don't intend on enhancing the pictures at all. Just regular size pictures would do perfectly fine for me. The camera also allows me to control the technical settings like the diaphragm, shutter time, etc. And it actually fellt like a real camera. All in all, the camera filled all the criteria I mentioned above, so it seemed like an obvious choice. The camera works like a charm. The quality of the pictures is absolutely brilliant, and the usb-cable supplied with it enables you to quickly download the pictures from the memory card onto your computer. I haven't tested the software to alter pictures yet, but I'm convinced it will do whatever it promises. The only disadvantages I could find was that the 16 MB CF card is too limited for storage. And the accessories are expensive as hell. But, that does not affect the working of the camera, so I have no reason to complain really. All in all, argueable the best camera for your money in it's price range.
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Summary: The best little Camera
Review: WOW!! I read all of the reviews before we bought ours. This is the best one on the market. No doubt. It works better than expected. It is so easy to operate. This is our first digital camera. Buy a "Zio" compact flash card reader,(around $25) it will save on the frustration with the batteries getting sucked down too soon.
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Summary: Just the best!
Review: I had an Olympus 520z, the images where never sharp. At low light, the background were all too dark. I Tried shooting at our tennis game and it was horrible when taking pictures with action. Before, I had a 1MP Olympus 460 taht produces sharper and better pictures. I used to think Olympus as the best of the point-and-shoots, but the 520z changed all this. Next I got the Nikon 2100. A lot better than the Oly520z. Smaller and looks like really techie. It is nice because of the size, really pocketsize although a little chunky. But still, I was not impressed on action photos. I do not know whether the size of the lenses has something to do with (Olympus has 2.8A max while Nikon has a 2.6A max) but both have very puny lenses which I suspect how much light can get in into it. These cameras both use only 2 AA which what I wanted for portability. But my conclusion is, there is no camera around that uses only 2 batteries to have enough flash power to make a great shots. So, I settled with the 4-battery Canon A60. Although I will not compare the images taken with my Olympus C3040 (C3040 has a fast 1.8A lens), the results are far, far superior than Oly 520z and Nikon 2100. For the money, it is the best at that level. The features are more than I expected for this price. The lens is bigger, flash is more powerful, movie has audio, etc.
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