Canon PowerShot A530 > Reviews

Advantages: easy to use, lots of fun features, good photos
Disadvantages: had to buy a bigger memory card

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 ... Read review

Advantages: Good size, value for money, and easy to use straight out of the box
Disadvantages: Probably not the camera for professionals

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 ... Read review

Advantages: 4x optical zoom, easy to use settings, lightweight and small
Disadvantages: The LCD screen has a lower resolution to some earlier models so it is harder to determine how good pictures are from the screen as well as when changing settings in manual mode

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 ... Read review