Canon PowerShot A530

I bought my Canon PowerShot A530 in the January sales as my old digital camera had been dropped and broken in the Christmas holidays. I love to take lots of photographs to record everything we do but I am by no means into all the technology. I just wanted something small that would fit easily into my pocket and something that was not too pricey, was extremely easy to use and most importantly took really good photos. My partner did a bit of research ...
...Print and Movie Print with Canon CP and SELPHY Compact Photo Printers. I haven't tried this as I rarely make prints from my photos preferred to buy prints of them off the internet. *1.8" colour LCD screen with up to 10x playback zoom Macro button for taking close ups - I've used this a lot very satisfactorily *Built in flash *Built in red eye reduction *Self-timer with 10.2 seconds delay - have had a lot of fun using this feature too! *Built ...

laveyri 04.04.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Canon PowerShot A530

I bought this camera in a hurry just before going away and have to say I was very impressed with it. Having 5 megapixels is fine and I don't see much value in getting higher for basic 6x4 prints. It has a 4x optical zoom and a 4x digital zoom so there's plenty of scope to get close enough for most of the type of shots that I'm likely to take. One of the reasons for buying this one was the body shape and position of the buttons and dials. There is ...
...you to keep it nice and steady when taking photos and the zoom ring is just above this. I tend to use the viewfinder to frame up my photos so the LCD screen althouhg a nice feature for reviewing isn't too importnat for me. The package includes the usual leads as well as one to connect up to a TV to review pictures which was well received by my family when we sat down and went through a slideshow of the previous days photos. As I only received it ...

gordonflack 04.09.2007 · Read full review
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My family own an older canon powershot camera the A80 so when I decided to buy a camera I looked at Cannon powershot cameras as I was already familiar with many of the settings and menu buttons and pleased with the picture quality powershots have. After looking at cameras made by other brands as well I decided on either the A530 or the A540, eventually going for this one as the extra features the A540 had were not important to me and I did not feel ...
...cost. I find this camera, like earlier powershot models easy to use and although at first I used only the most basic functions (in automatic taking pictures) I have found with the help of the instruction manual relatively easy to play around with the different settings. The camera itself if lighter than earlier powershots, mainly due to requiring only 2 AA batteries instead of 4 and at first this caused me a few problems with the camera wobbling, ...

bluedolphin88 20.08.2006 · Read full review
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Buying my Canon A530 was actually a emergency buy as my FujiFilm E510 packed in on a holiday on florida. I payed $230 (£115) for it which also bought a 2Gb memory card for the camera separate, which would allow me to take over 1300 photos, so I was feeling pleased with it. *****Ease of Use***** This was my second digital camera so I had only been used to using my old one. But as a person who laughs in the face of any instruction manual, found the ...
...old, I still think the Canon looks pretty good. It's not the slimest camera in the world, but ive never liked slimmer cameras, if money was no object I'd have a professional SLR cameras, as I do enjoy photography. Back to the Canon, right handers will find that the Canon will fit well into their hand thanks to the bulge at the front. Overall I still wish I had an SLR but this is a great camera for beginners, or for someone with some experience, ...

luk322 03.09.2007 · Read full review
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A decent camera. Iv'e had it for about 2 years now and have used it mainly for holidays and some activities. In all fairness it seems to take good quality photos with no hassle. I generally use the Auto setting but for those who know what they're doing it's also possible to use the manual setting to get it just right. Other settings include: Landscape, Portrait, Night Scene, Video mode, Stitch assist (for taking wide photos and stitching it all together ...
...This has many sub-settings where you can choose the following settings: Beach, fireworks, snow, foliage, indoor, kids and pets, night snapshot and a few other more professional settings I suppose. I think you'll agree that the choice of settings is very good. Having just come back from holiday I have several quality photos to show the rest of the family and friends. It's light, a good size screen on the back, quite small and generally a good allround ...

jdstinger21 16.09.2008 · Read full review
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This is an excellent little camera for amateur photographers who want a little more than just point-and-click. It has a number of great functions that you might expect with much more expensive SLR cameras that are accessed with a wheel on the top including fully manual settings (ISO, White balance, flash output, metering etc). Although not as compact as the IXUS variety it does offer many more functionsk, produces better pictures and has a larger ...
...takes very acceptable movies (ideal for youtube etc). It accepts standard SD or MMC memory cards and it would be worth purchasing a larger one as I tend to use it on max quality and resolution. It is also excellent with the 2 AA batteries it takes making them last ages. ...

miocene 02.08.2008 · Read full review
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This camera is a very good and easy to use point and click camera. It has a really nice big LCD screen, which can tend to eat up battery power, however, but is certainly handy for when showing photos to friends via the camera. This is why I suggest purchasing a spare battery, so for when you go on holiday for instance you don't have to charge batteries constantly. A big quality is the robustness of this camera, have even dropped it and been on several ...
...remarkably. So, if you require a camera for general use when you are out and about, and are not too concerned about a slightly lower number of pixels (although I find 5 mega pixels plenty for someone who doesn't take professional photographs) then I can highly recommend this well-built camera to you! ...

antonator 12.07.2007 · Read full review
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...camera comes with a CD containing different (trial) software for editing and printing your photos. I personally use Picasa, which works perfectly well together with this camera. On the overall, I'd say it is a product worth considering especially as Canon has a lot of experience in the photographic sector. ...

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