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Summary: Highly Recommended!!!
Review: I've had this camera for 5 months now, and it has survived rock climbing, ice climbing and few high altitude drops (about 20 feet), and this camera has still survived it all. My only complaint, which I guess more a comment then anything, is that I wish Canon had tried to compress the pictures a little. Anyway. The picture quality is excellent, but I noticed that when you zoom to anything, the picture clarity diminishes a little, and at sometimes, depending on the conditions, can come out blurry.
The good is that the camera is excellent for those people who go out and are the outdoors type person. This camera is a little light, and can be put into a camping bag or your car glove box. The media this camera uses is Compact Flash. Which by the way, is one of the cheapest media that is currently out in the market. So it will be easy for you to upgrade from the 16 mb card that comes with the camera. Trust me, don't be caught with 16mb, and run out when you are camping, or out somewhere and you're out of pictures. Done that, isn't pretty. The connection between camera and computer (threw the USB port connection) is moderate and batteries consuming. I would recommend a card reader for this camera, since at times, this camera can eat up batteries. If you want longevity for your camera using the batteries, I had best luck and longer usage using Energizer e2 Lithium Batteries. I tried the basic batteries, and after 5 shots, I would run out of battery usage. With the Energizer e2, I could make 5 long movies (14 sec's each) and still could take more pictures afterwards.
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Summary: Great Camera for the first time user
Review: This is my first Digital Camera!I got this camera for my 15th birthday from my dad, he is VERY picky about how well it works, how fast and if it works at all. I read through the manual, which is kinda long, but you don't have to read all of it to figure it out. After finishing the manual, I took about 8 pictures, and 4 movies, the batteries seemed fine, but when it came time to cut the cake and sing happy birthday, I couldn't take pictures because the batteries were dead! I just flipped them (took the batteries out, reversed them so the batteries were switched) and the camera worked fine again, I still have to figure out how to get the best quality. Speaking of quality, the reviewers are lying! When I use the digial zoom to the fullest, it is not fuzzy, choppy or anything! The images are still great, and the quality on this camera is EXCELLENT! When I loaded the images to my computer, the set up disks were very easy to follow, and very fast. and Loading was a piece of cake! It took less than 10 seconds to bring everything to my files. This camera is so much fun, but to enjoy it to the fullest, I suggest these purchases: 1. A Camera Case (to keep this baby safe)
2. A 4 pack of rechargeable batteries (you'll need 4, two to use, and two to charge, then between times, you never have to wait. You'll always have one pair ready to go)
3. A battery Charger (Unfortunately these can be pricey but they are worth it)
4. An AC adapter (the thingie that plugs into the wall, they're useful while you charge batteries or to save you $$$)
5. A larger flash card (I find the 16MB just fine)
6. A Warrenty in case something goes wrong (the camera comes with a one year warrenty through canon already, but I suggest one through the store you buy the camera too) I'm very lucky to have had all these things from my CD player, so I my dad only paid for the camera and warrenty, which was an excellent price for 3.2 MegaPixels. With other cameras, you are bound to pay more on flash cards, batteries, equipment etc... Remember to enjoy this Camera :) It's loads of fun!
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Summary: Canon service is horrible
Review: Canon service is horrible. My camera has broken repeatedly and having it repaired has been a horrible experience- it took over three months to get it fixed!
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Summary: JUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Gave this to my poor mother on her way to Europe. It broke the first day!! At least she got a few dozen photos out of it, before having to send it back to Canon. But she did say the pictures turned out ok.
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Summary: Good Camera
Review: This is a great camera for the price. I am a novice photographer and I need something with a good resolution. This is it! The few downfalls this camera has are that it eats up batteries so I recomend that you use the optional AC adapter. Another downfall is that it doesn't have an optical zoom. I don't recomend using the digital zoom because the picture becomes blurry. I recomuend using Picture It! and croping the picture.
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Summary: You'll need a zoom lens
Review: I've been using Nikon and Leica film cameras for more than seven years and been a firm believer in prime lens, for the better image quality. Now that I'm shopping for a P&S digital camera for my wife, with the same kind of thinking in mind, I checked out A300, for its non-zoom lens. After playing with A300 at Circuit City for a while, ironically, I have to say you do need a zoom lens for these little digital cameras. Not that I have suddenly developped inclination for zoom convenience, but that when shooting at close range, the lens distortion is so severe and shocking. The traditional approach of "getting close to subject" won't work here. You have to get further away then zoom in to bring the subject back, in order to mitigate the distortion. Have to use a longer focal length (e.g. zoom in) when a shorter one will typically do, there're other disadvantages: easier image blur from camera shake, less flexibility in shooting angles, etc. This shortcoming appears to me quite limiting, especially A300 already has a 1-stop slower lens (f3.6 vs. f2.8) compared with other models, say, Canon A60, for similar price. Due to the general limited optics quality on these cameras, I don't think the difference between 3.2M (A300) vs. 2.1M (A60) pixels is big deal anymore. This factor might well be overshadowed by many other ones that also bear impact on the final image quality. So I'll just pick up A60 for quick digital jobs, and leave more demanding ones to my old trusty Nikon and Leica.
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Summary: Great camera, excellent for the price
Review: I bought this camera for 200 bucks and can say that I am quite satisfied, and somewhat surprised at the quality. The pictures are great - the camera is 3.2 megapixels and it really does make a difference! The pictures come out so clear and bright! The camera has a good zoom on it, and is very easy to use. After a couple of hours of fidgeting around with it, I pretty much had all the basics and then some down. It was easy to set up the software in my computer - took about ten minutes. The only problems that I have with this camera are: 1. the battery life is short - but battery life is short on all digital cameras, so I guess compared to others this one isn't bad. 2.) If the lighting is not great, there will be a long delay before the picture takes. doesn't seem like that big of a deal but it can get annoying. 3.) I can only download the pics from my camera onto my computer once at a time. If I want to empty out som e more onto my computer later, I have to shut down the whole computer and start it back up again in order to download more pictures.
But, that's the only qualms I have. So, considering that I only paid 200 bucks, I am very, very happy with this camera.
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Summary: My thoughts on the Canon A300
Review: It's great if you just need a point-and-shoot no fuss camera and optical zoom doesn't matter to you. It colors are gorgeous, especially outdoors during the day. Drains batteries like crazy, slightly over 20 photos and the battery was flat. Slightly bulkier that I'd like, but it's a Canon at a reasonable price. I use it primarily for email and web publishing so image quality is not very important to me.
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Summary: Nice pics, but eats batteries...
Review: I ran through two sets of new AA's in one days shooting (no flash used). I tried the rechargeable NiMH's, they ran down even faster. I use it now as a studio camera with an AC adapter.
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Summary: Don't get a digital zoom
Review: Thought we'd try it out. My boyfriend is a professional photographer and had never used a digital zoom. Lasted 3 days before I returned it. Digital zoom pictures were grainy and dark and of poor quality. I was afraid I would damage the plastic body and the buttons and settings were overcomplicated, even after reading the manual. We had to change the batteries 3 times and we took no more than 20 pictures all the time. Had trouble synching with the computer, too. Fortuntely, Amazon gave a refund and we're going to try another camera.
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