Canon A1

Advantages: Total control, Reliability, image quality
Disadvantages: Not for novices :-), weight

...The A1 is great if you have a fair bit of photographic knowledge & want to get more experience in traditional 35mm film photography. It's not the easiest camera to get to know if you're just starting - although, as long as you can deal with the manual focussing, you can just put it on "auto" & fire away. Had an A1 for nearly 20 years & put (literally) thousands of film through it. Dragged it all over Europe & bits of the US. Utterly reliable and, with Canon or Vivitar Series 1 lenses, excellent image quality. I Don't use Canon flash - I prefer off-camera units. Multi mode: * Full auto * Shutter priority * Aperture priority * Flash * Aperture override I've used this camera with 3200 ASA colour film & 2 minute exposures (4 x 30 seconds using multi-exposure!), with the bellows, the 5FPS motor drive (not to be confused...

berrysoft 11.07.2003 · Read review
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Canon A1 old maybe good definately

Advantages: 3 different modes
Disadvantages: difficult to find 2nd hand now - all snatched up quickly

...This is still a brilliant camera even counting its age. You can buy it secondhand still in good camera shops but getting one in good condition can be a bit of a challenge but never the less the time an effort is worth it. It has 3 modes. Programme, where it does everything for you except focus, aperture priority where you choose the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed and shutter priority where you set the shutter speed and the camera sets the aperture. It has a double exposure facility. This canon camera can be fitted with a motor drive that will take up to 5 frames a second. Pictures with this camera cannot be faulted. You can still find the flashes for this A1 camera and this is easier to find than the good condition camera. Using genuine canon lenses equals superb optics. You can still pick up various...

Ciren 31.12.2000 · Read review
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Review of Canon - Canon

Canon Quality

Advantages: Same Canon quality we have come to expect, great ISO capabilities.
Disadvantages: Buttons can get fiddly in the cold.

... Canon 500D Introduction Canons range of cameras is very impressive. Everyone can be accommodated for, there really is something for everyone. Camera Itself First off, the camera. The sensor on this model has a larger pixel count than many of its rivals and cheaper models in the range. The 15.1 megapixels on offer is more than enough for the market it is aimed at, these images will easily be blown up above A3 and still retain most of the detail. The new addition to this camera that sets it apart from the older models is the Full 1080p movies. Many photographers don?t like this new mode but if you don?t, then simply don?t use it. Having the functionality of a high quality video camera on family holidays and such will be welcomed by the enthusiast market at which this is aimed toward. One problem I found...

aadamm 23.10.2009 · Read review
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Average Boy Band or A1?

Advantages: Write their own music, play their own instruments and have a variety of sounds
Disadvantages: They are 'on a break'

...A1 were formed by Steps Manager, Tim Byrne (also manages Simon Cowell?s contestants in the X Factor). Tim wanted to create the ultimate boy band. One that could sing, dance, write music and play their own instruments. The first member of the band was Paul Marazzi who was picked from auditions Tim held. Paul was the only auditionee good enough. Tim nex spotted Mark Read in the audience at a gig and asked him to go for a meeting, Mark went along and sang and became the second member of the band. Tim asked Mark if he knew of any friends who are talented and would be interested and Mark recommended the youngest member of the band Ben Adams. Last but not least Christian Inbebrigtsen was recommended by one of his teachers at the Paul McCartney Fame School (also known and LIPA). The band secured a contract with Sony which...

Tinkerbella1 22.03.2005 · Read review
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Review of A1 - A1

Canon PowerShot A460 - An A1 budget camera

Advantages: low price, well built, built in flash, great pictures, manual and LCD viewfinder
Disadvantages: batteries don't last that long

...of the pictures that will be produced. The flash is also quite strong but one hell of a drain on the batteries which even in bright light and without flash usage drain very quickly. I would suggest 2 sets of rechargeable batteries for use with the A460. The pictures produced by the A460 are fantastic and as good in terms of clarity and detail as any other digital camera pictures I have seen. They are easy to upload onto the computer as well thanks to the easy user interface. I have a large amount of affection now for the Canon PowerShot A460 and recommend that everyone looking for a decent digital camera without a £150+ budget gives this a serious look. Once you've had your hands on this beast, you won't want anything else....

sayitasitis 03.05.2007 · Read review
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A1, NOT Just Another Boy Band

Advantages: sing live, great music, talented
Disadvantages: always seen as a boy band

...Well, by the looks of it, all the other opinions in this section are writing off A1 as "just another boy band" but I wonder just how many of you have actually heard them sing? Now, let me clarify, I am not a teenybopper or a fan madly in love with them, I am 31. I bought their album, The A-List, for one of my daughters for Christmas and expected it to be pretty awful. It isn't, it's great. When they released their cover version of A-Ha's Take On Me, I was sceptical. I remember the original version and prefer it. I dismissed A1, assuming they were clones of hundreds of other "pretty boy" acts singing cover versions. I was wrong. I confess to regularly watching CD:UK on Saturday mornings, mainly because I think Ant and Dec are one of the best team of TV presenters there are at the moment. A1 were on there one week, singing...

KarenUK 23.02.2001 · Read review
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Review of A1 - A1

Same Old Brand New A1

Advantages: fun, catchy songs, a variety of styles, two hit singles on this so far
Disadvantages: a couple of awful, cheesy tracks

...I bought The A List, A1's second album, for my seven year old daughter for Christmas. She had wanted their album or Billie Piper's and I prefer Billie, so had looked for that, but they had sold out in Asda, so A1 it was. I wasn't expecting much to be honest, I thought they were just another boy band - four lads (Paul, Ben, Mark & Christian) all pretty good looking and able to dance - but anything more ? I didn't think so. I didn't mind their version of Take On Me, but I'm old enough to remember (and prefer) the A-Ha version. The video was very good though. Then I heard their second single from this album - Same Old Brand New You and loved it from the first time I heard it. It was one of my favourite singles for the year 2000, in fact. Anyway, these two hits are the first two on the album. I then let it play through and was...

KarenUK 03.01.2001 · Read review
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Review of The A List - A1

Canon or a Brother ?

Advantages: Good print Quality
Disadvantages: Cartridge prices

...This review is for the Canon Pixma IP4700. Setup --------- This printer comes inside a box which is heavily packaged and first off all you get the power cable. The cable is wrapped with this tie back but the problem is that when you unwind the cable you notice how it wants to try and curl back up again so you do need to try and straighten it out as soon as you can. You receive the disc which has the drivers on which you need to install on the computer otherwise you have no way of printing items off without it. There is nothing else inside the box besides the cartridges which are easy to insert and use. The disc is good because it is so simple to install the items onto the computer and this takes about a minute to do. You do not get a connection to the computer though so you do need to purchase one yourself and many websites...

tink-er-bell 22.10.2009 · Read review
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A1 REVIEW - PART 2

Advantages: Some great songs on this album
Disadvantages: they didnt release enough of them.

...As I enjoyed writing my a1 review so much yesterday I decided to do a follow up on yesterdays and take you through the next part of a1s career. For any of you who didnt read my first review to get someback ground on the group...go read it now!! Only joking I will give you another quick (But this time very quick) run through of who a1 were. They were a boyband that ran from 1998 until 2002. They consisted of 4 members from L-R on the album cover above, Mark Read, Ben Adams, Christian Ingebritsten and Paul Marrazi. Today I am going to be reviewing their second album. Well after the release of their last single from their first album like a rose, a1 werent really on the scene much but they were still working very hard recording this album. This album consists of 15 songs - The first song on this album was also the first...

lorraine_lorraineuk 31.03.2005 · Read review
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Review of A List, The - A1

A-Ha-ing at A1?

Advantages: Catchy updated version of the original
Disadvantages: It doesn't show off the boys' personal talents

...OK, after reading the rest of the reviews on here, I got slightly annoyed that no-one could look past their personal opinions and give a little information on the band, what the song is actually like and how it comes across.... so here I am doing my own review!! Well, A1 is made up of 4 members; Mark Read who is a very talented guy (from an early age - parents worked on a cruise ship singing) playing the piano, drums and keyboard amongst others. Paul Marazzi, who has limited musical talents in terms that he actually can't play anything despite having a unique voice. (Actually that's not true. He can play a tambourine. But anyway, I digress). Christian Ingebritsten, one of the best musicians Norway has seen in a long time (went to the Paul McCartney school of Fame); after the band split he wanted to venture to a blues album which...

tashat 15.05.2005 · Read review
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Review of Take On Me - A1