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Photo : Canon PowerShot A20 2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom |
- Batteries last longThis camera has everything I want in a camera.
1. Great Battery life. I'm using rechargable lithium batteries, and I wanted to run them down the rest of the way the other day and charge them fully. (Holdover from NiCad days.) I took pic after pic after pic, I left it on until it would auto-shutoff a bunch of times. It took forever. And these batteries are from Nov. of 2001!
2. Picture quality is great. I use smallest of 3 sizes and middle of 3 resolutions for most pics.
Rating:
- great cameraThis camera is great. The quality is good, once you figure out what your doing. It's extremely simple to use and great camera for taking pictures of family and friends.
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- Decent Value CameraPros:
Excellent image quality (note: try use Medium resolution - 1024x768 pixels) for 2.1 megapixels camera. Easy to use. Convenient software and USB Interface Cable to download to your PC. Note: when downloading pics to your PC try to find folder
where pics have been saved ( usually they under Canon > Zoom Browser > Samples) You can later rename images how you want it instead of reference them by number as 1230-1234432.JPG
Cons:
Requires 4 AA size batteries.
Solution - buy only 'Lithium' batteries (I use Energizer) since AA batteries will stand only 15-20 shots.
Rating:
- Great Camera For The Amount I PaidI bought this camera factory refurbished. I chose that over the newer A40 because I didn't need movie mode, saving money was more inportant.
The shots this camera takes are great, the interface is clean, and it has quite a nice zoom. My favorite feature is the continous shooting.
The USB cable takes a little while to start working with my WinME box, as it doesn't recognize the camera on the first try. Instead I use a CF reader. I have 2 sets of 4 NiMH batteries, because all digicams have quite an appetite for power. I also got a Viking 128 meg CF card.
I use this camera for sports photography, especially swimming. At an outdoor pool on a sunny day, the shots are bright, sharp, and clear. The ability to shot multiple pics at once means that I can get the exact moment more easily. That's great for the dives at the beginning. However, when I used it indoors under flourescent lights, blurring occured. The shutter remained open too long for the action shots, and you have no control over the shutter. With the white balance set to flourescent, indoor pics do come out clear, as long as there's no action.
All in all, if you track down a cheap refurbished A20, you should seriously consider buying it, as it's a great camera.
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- Software not so greatAfter owning the PowerShot A20 for about 6 months I love the camera, but hate the bundled software. On the hardware side everything is fine: the battery life is good, the picture quality is good. I use a 128MB Compact Flash card with the camera, which can store more than 400 pictures at medium resolution (1024x768), which is plenty good enough for posting on websites. The big downside is the software. Canon provides a Windows application called ZoomBrowser to use with the camera. It has lots of fancy graphics, and also lots of user interface problems. Although the ZoomBrowser interface can fill the screen only a very narrow band is dedicated to the pictures on the camera, making it difficult to see what you are working with. Whilst downloading the ZoomBrowser window constantly pops to the front, so you can't do any other work on your computer. The browser interface can get out of sync with the picture files on your hardrive, which is extremely confusing. Overall it is a bloated package which has lots of useless features, and does a very poor job of the one thing for which it is necessary -- downloading images. I did find a better solution -- for $10 you can buy the shareware Cam4You utilities from http://jpegclub.org/cam4you/. This program does a much better job of downloading pictures from the camera, without all the cruft. The interface is a little unpolished, but it functions much better than the Canon software.
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