Canon PowerShot A430 > Reviews > Easy peasy

Author's product rating:   

Picture Quality	Excellent
Range & Quality of Features	Excellent
Ease of Use	Easy
Overall Look & Design	Excellent
Value for Money	Excellent

Advantages:	Easy point and shoot excellent picture quality, photo stitch on camera
Disadvantages:	Small initial memory 16MB only with camera

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

This for the money is a seriously quality piece of equipment. The name Canon sums up quality and reliability, and you won't be dissappointed with this camera.

This camera is competing in the lower end of the market although you would never know it from the functions it offers and the output quality. It uses the cheaper SD cards available for £10 for 1GB off net.

The manual settings give a very acceptable quality most of the time, but if you are slightly more adventurous you can switch to manual mode and adjust WB, and speeds etc.

The camera also has various pre-programmed scene modes:
Portrait, assures proper focus and minimizes red eye
Night snapshot, increases exposure time, no flsh, use on tripod or steady surface.
Kids and pets, action pictures in bright light.
Foliage, close-up shots.
Snow, for bright snow scenes.
Beach, beach scenes.
Fireworks, switches off flash, use on tripod.
Although I was slightly disappointed that they had not got a scene mode for backlit subjects.

The camera also has something that I don't believe any other camera in this price range has which is onboard photo stitch, this is very easy to use and the camera gives easy to follow instructions, if however you would prefer, the software supplied does allow you to do photo stitching (panorama) on your PC. The software offered is easy to use and quite comprehensive for most basic photo editing.

The camera came supplied with only a basic 16MB SD card so purchase a larger card to make sure you don't miss out on that once in a lifetime shot ( it will take MMC cards although you will find they are normally more expensive)

If you go for this camera I would also purchase a battery charger and 4 2500mah rechargeable batteries so you are always carrying 2 spare. Overall this camera is excellent value for money