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Summary: Canon A20-Best Digital Camera value on the market
Review: I was concerned about spending around [price] for a new digital camera. I read reviews and reviews and deceided to go with a Canon A20. Well it turns out that this camera exhibits the fine art of turning out marvelous photos with minimum effort. Once you read the manual and get your hands on the camera, and use it, you will understand how wonderful "Digital Photography" is.
Fiddle free, simple camera operation and the result is great pictures. Who could ask for more. I've owned my camera about one month, have taken about 300 pictures and the results are marvelous. This is definitely the camera for those who want simply great pictures with minimum effort. It is mostly an all automatic operation with a manual override mode for those who want to do limited exposure settings. I use a 128MB Compact Flash Memory Card that gives me approximately 720 digital pictures at 1024/768 pixel--Medium compression. Beats buying film, and all those other features this camera supports are well worth the [money]I invested.
Don.
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Summary: excellent general purpose camera
Review: I've had the PowerShot A20 for about 8 weeks and have taken several hundred pictures with it of subjects ranging from single portraits, sporting events, macro stills and scenic panoramas. It's very comparable in size, weight and print quality to my point-shoot APS camera. But it's digital! ahhhh...Pros:
ease of use - the entire family *likes* to use it; mode indicators are clear; menus aren't too deep
fast - even without locking the focus, the shutter is quick
imaging - skin tones are good; strong colors look good; white balance options are simple but effective;
optics - 3x optical zoom; good results in a variety of lighting
dimensions - about the same as my APS camera
AA batteries - you can find them anywhere
video out - immediately replay your latest photo-fest on TV Cons:
flash - eats batteries; no hotshoe; weak red eye reduction
memory card - the included card is way too small
flimsy doors - the battery and CF doors don't inspire confidence Recommendations:
read the manual; at least one 128MB CF; USB CF reader; at least 8 AA NIMH batteries; lowepro Z30 bag; and a bigger hard drive! For printable snapshot work, the A20 is a keeper.
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Summary: out of date now
Review: I have been using this little camera regularly since march 2002 when I traded in my Canon EOS SLR (yeah I know but I wasn't using it enough - digitals are so much more convenient).Now I know what digi cameras are all about i'm ready to upgrade to a G5 or something similar. The A20 is fine for most situations but my main gripe is that it cannot cope when there is little detail in the subject; a plain background will produce an almost watercolour result. Where there is a lot happening the results are sharp enough. Batteries run down quickly but I always carry spares.The flash is inadequate.
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Summary: Excellent Digital Camera For The Money
Review: I bought the Canon PowerShotm A20 over a year ago and think it is a fine digital camera. It takes crisp clear pictures that can be easily downloaded to your PC using a SanDisk. The only draw back is that it eats batteries (4 AA).
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Summary: Batteries last long
Review: This 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.
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Summary: great camera
Review: This 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. - HelpfulReviews.com
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Summary: Decent Value Camera
Review: Pros:
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.
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Summary: Great Camera For The Amount I Paid
Review: I 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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Summary: Software not so great
Review: After 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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Summary: Average performer at a premium price
Review: I'm not 12 yr old, but its the only way I could write the review without the hassle of registering. Sorry. :-) Pros
Good design and interface
Excellent outdoors performance (then again, most cameras are) Cons
Eats batteries, even 1700 mAh Ni-Mh ones
Exposure performance is useless indoors and at night, limited by ISO 100/150 only
The [expensive] street prices don't justify the performance I tried three other cameras that were capable ISO 400 exposures and the difference was literally night and day. With the flash on, the picture gets washed out (EV compensation is useless), with flash off, the A20 compensates by slowing shutter speed which results in blurry pics (unless you have a tripod or a rock steady hand). All-in-all, Canon has let me down...big time ! I sincerely expected better from Canon.
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