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Summary: Awesome!!
Review: I bought this for my sister, actually, this is also the first dgital camera I bought. I am so glad that I made the right choice. I thought it would be the same big size as Canon A40 before I received it from Amazon, but actually it is not, it is very small, although it is still a little bigger than Canon S200, I am already happy with that. The pictures are awesome, even in the movie mode, its quality is still excellent. This camera has AV output port, so you can transfer the photos/movies to a TV easily, I love this feature, because if you want to show the photos/movies to many people, you don't need a PC at all. 256MB memory card can take upto 740 seconds of movie. Campare to Nikon 2100, which is smaller than Canon A60, but Nikon does not have AV output port, and its movie cannot record any sound. This is the one if you want a 2MP digital camera.
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Summary: High portability but low quality
Review: I agree that the camera comes at a very attractive price, but on closer inspection, I don't think it is really worth the money. Cons:
- Looks cheap and feels cheap
- LCD is not that clear compared to other dig. cameras under the same category
- Poor LCD light contrast
- Very limited features in general, especially in the manual mode Pros:
- Rather light and small
- Cheap Buy this if you want a camera that is portable enough to take with you to social events and parties. But definitely not recommended for taking panoramic or travel pictures. Even if you're a beginner in photography, consider spending an extra $100 for a way better camera with more features and flexibilities. You will grow out of this camera in a matter of weeks! A60 is cheap and easy to use, but it doesn't allow your creativity and imagination to go very far.
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Summary: Excellent Choice
Review: I am a newbie weh it comes to digital cameras. I received the camera at work (I teach 5th grade) and I had it up and running before the students completed their bell work. It was great and easy enough to learn how to use during my few minutes of spare time that I get during the day.
The camera is great. The features are wonderful, and the price is enough to make me come back for a second camera. Canon sure did outdo themselves this time.
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Summary: Awesome All Around Camera
Review: This is my first digital camera. I searched around reading reviews online. After holding camera at a local store, I was impressed. It is a great point and shoot camera, but also includes features found only in more expense models. It is easy to grip/hold on to. It is a great camera for an amatour or a intermediate photograher. Its a great. NO Awesome camera! The memory it uses, is low priced. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Best camera for less than 300 dollars
Review: I have been using a Canon A20 for a little more than 1 year. It was a great camera. A60 is similar to A20 with new shape and enhanced functions.
After my A20 was taken by the sister of my wife, we were searching the web to find a replacement camera. After compared the features and sample pictures of several candidates: canon s230, canon a60, canon a300, nikon 2000, olympus c520. We found this one fits our needs the best.
S230 is a good camera, but too small to hold stable in hand.The picture quality of a300 is not good, even it has 3 mega pixels, due to its inferior lens.The nikon 2000 does not even record sound when taking video. C520 is OK but picture quality is so so.
So, if you just want to take some good picture of your family on a trip, A60 is one of the best choices.Make sure you grab a 256 M compact flash card before you leave the house.
Rating: 
Summary: I'm impressed!
Review: I have had this camera for about two weeks now. It is my first digital camera and I really like it. First, but not foremostly, it is a sharp looking camera. It records great photos. It has plenty of options for the lay cameraperson. And the only drawback to that is learning how to work those options. Like the previous reviewer stated, you can use it right out of the box. I used a Canon digital camera for work this past winter and took good pictures in -25F temperatures. It was the first time I had used the camera and I got it going without the manual. This was a factor in choosing this new camera from Canon. I haven't really used the software included with the camera as my computer had its own. But with the little of it I have used, it was very friendly. I give it only 4 stars because I am sure with more use it will reveal some faults. Must remember that some faults are just operator error!
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Summary: english user
Review: having had this camera for about 3 months now for the money, especially in the UK. It is a bargin. I think that this particular model is now discontiuned which explains that in the UK it's price has gone up by 25%.
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Summary: Worth Every Penny!
Review: You can take this camera right from the box, set it on auto, and take great pictures. Like to experiment... Set it up for partial, or FULL manual control. You even get decent video with sound! For 90% of folks, 2 MP is plenty, especially when they are QUALITY MP's like this camera has. Picture processing is quick, and pictures look great, with little noise. Nice plus is it takes cheap AA batteries (get a charger) and uses Compact Flash cards... Easy to get and cheap! This camera is so feature rich, you will learn something new every time you use it. Yes, the shutter lag at times is very long (especially in low light even with AF assist), and the flash indoors is at times weak, but the positives FAR outweigh the negatives. You have so much control, you can manually make many of these issues, non-issues. I took 1600+ shots the first week I owned it because of all the options you have to play with. For the price here at Amazon, w/free shipping, Buy 2!
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Summary: Great Camera, despite what others think
Review: I have had the Canon Powershot A60 for about 11 months now, and have taken more than 6000 pictures. This camera has given me no problems at all. I have yet to have an E18 error, even after I dropped it from more than one metre onto hard cobblestone. The A60 was my first digital camera, and it was great to learn on, but if you get past the beginner stage upgrading would be recomended. I came to this website before I bought the A60, and read all the good and bad things about this camera. So far the only bad thing I have come across is the ocassional soft focusing, but this is not a problem unless you want professional quality photographs. BOTTEM LINE: This is an AWESOME digital camera for beginners.
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Summary: 'umble
Review: Taken on its own merits this is a fine little camera, particularly useful for its fully manual mode, although the only reason you might buy it over the Powershot A70 and A85 models is because, like me, you're poor, either because you don't earn very much money or because you spend all the money you earn without thought of the consequences. The A70 and A85 are identical in terms of features and offer higher resolutions. The A60 is, however, a very good camera. In no particular order...
The image quality is sharp and clear, indeed too sharp at times, and a 2MP image fills up a 21" monitor. To a great extent the 'megapixel race' is a matter of pride and face; the only people who would benefit from a higher resolution are the awful, awful people who post on Photo.net, who will buy a top-notch Nikon digital SLR instead, because (a) it's their livelihood and (b) it impresses clients and models. It's a different world.
For the rest of us, the only major bursa in the A60s photographic trochanter is the digital sharpening filter which the camera applies to the image, and if you take a photograph of - for example - a sharp-edged cathedral against a blue sky, the cathedral ends up with an oddly sharp 'aura' around it. Thankfully you can turn this off by selecting 'low sharpening' as a special effect.
The close-up macro mode autofocuses very well - you can't really use the screen to focus, unless you use 'zone focus' with the manual mode - and although I never expected to use macro, I find myself frequently photographing lots of bugs, fingers, nails, stones, flecks of spittle etc up close. Probably not a selling point for most people, but it's fun.
In 35mm film terms, the zoom lens goes from roughly 35mm to roughly 50mm, i.e. from wide-angle to neutral. It's not particularly useful, and I keep it at its widest setting. The aperture at 35mm is f2.8, which is average for a film camera, and at 50mm is f4.8, which is not great, although the CCD seems more sensitive than film (you can set the ISO speed from 50-400, although I leave it on 50, and it's definitely more sensitive than ISO 50 film). The maximum shutter speed is 15 seconds. Up to about 10 seconds the visible parts of the images are noise-free, although if you subsequently brighten them with Photoshop they don't look very good at all.
The Powershots use ordinary AA batteries and widely-available compact flash cards, rather than odd lithium cells and obscure 'memory sticks'. If you take about twenty shots a day and spend a few minutes on each one, looking through the screen and juggling your tripod, four 2350 rechargable batteries last for about a week.
As for filters and accessory lenses, bah. There are wide-angle and telephoto add-on lenses, which require an adaptor, which has to be bought seperately. You will not purchase these, not ever, and they might as well not exist. Sadly Canon do not offer an M42 screw-mount adaptor.
As for lag time, I can sense confusion in the other reviews. When you lightly press the shutter, the camera focuses and sets the exposure; when you press the shutter slightly more, it takes the picture after a delay of a fraction of a second. If it was a long exposure it then takes some time chuntering away, processing the image. If you therefore keep your finger on the shutter button, there is very little delay.
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