Canon Power Shot Digital Camera

I have the older A70, bought in 2003 when we were house-shopping. This has been a good camera for us in that it has enough features to (usually) satisfy my serious photographer husband, yet still has a couple of modes easy enough for point-and-shoot me. Some friends of mine have the A75 model that followed ours, and Canon even fixed the annoying mirror-shiny panel around the screen that was too bright in direct sunlight to see your pictures. Under normal circumstances it has very little shutter lag and takes pictures decently in medium-to-low-light settings. One other nice feature is that it takes 4 AA batteries, which are usually pretty easy to find. I'd definitely buy another.

And I've got no complaints. We got the camera two years ago and it's survived several falls, which all my cameras must--I'm a klutz. The newer version listed above has an even bigger viewscreen than mine and 5.0 mega pixels, which is a good thing.

What I like about my camera: it's small, light, point-n-shoot, you can buy cards for it with lots of memory...one of mine holds 270 images, the images are photo-quality, and it's easy to upload them to the computer with a card reader. I also like that it takes regular AA batteries--we have two sets of rechargable batteries and swap them out as soon as one set of batteries goes down. So much nicer than having to buy new lithium batteries all the time.

The only drawback is the 3x optical zoom lens. I like a lot more zoom than that. I don't use the digital zoom, the photos are grainy and it's not photo-quality. I cannot comment on the combined zoom, I don't think my model has it.

I like the different shot settings...closeups, scenery, sports, etc, and the special settings are fun to play with. There are settings for: indoors, outdoors, fireworks, underwater (you have to have a special waterproof case to do that) and such. All around good camera for a regular shutterbug who doesn't need something fancy like that digital Canon Rebel... :drool:

Anhata
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