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Canon Powershot A620 Review
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Review Summary
Reader Score: 8.77 (out of 10)
Sliding easily to the head of Canon's A-series line, the 7-megapixel PowerShot A620 (and its 5-megapixel sibling, the PowerShot A610) steps comfortably into the large shoes worn by the wildly popular PowerShot A95. With a 4X optical zoom that spans a useful 35mm-to-140mm (35mm-equivalent) range, the Canon PowerShot A620 keeps up the A95's tradition of packing full manual controls and a solid list of scene modes into an easy-to-use, moderately sized camera that will meet the needs of a broad spectrum of photographers.
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| Imaging-Resource |
9.88 |
12-02-05 |
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| Canon's PowerShot line of digital cameras have always been big favorites of IR readers, valued for their user-friendly design, excellent photo characteristics, and good build quality. The Canon PowerShot A620 is an estimable addition at the top of that line, sporting a 7-megapixel CCD and a very good quality 4x optical zoom lens. It offers everything from fully automatic to fully manual exposure control, with a healthy set of scene modes thrown in to make it easy to bring back great-looking photos from what might otherwise be challenging situations.Thanks to its high-speed DIGIC-II processing chip, it's also very responsive, and its movie capability is impressive as well. |
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| DCResource |
9.33 |
10-25-05 |
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| The Canon PowerShot A620 is a very competent midsized camera that's a good fit for both beginners and enthusiasts, and it gets my highest recommendation. With both automatic and manual shooting modes, very good movie and continuous shooting features, and expandability, the A620 is a lot of camera for under $400. |
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| Megapixel |
9.00 |
12-07-05 |
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| "The PowerShot A620, the current flagship of the A-series, is an excellent example of a camera that integrates some the most recent developments in digital photography such as a 7-megapixel CCD, while remaining affordable.
Although a compact camera in a mostly plastic body, the A620 is equipped with a 2-inch pivoting LCD monitor and yet still has an optical viewfinder, and provides a 4X zoom lens when most others only have 3X zooms." |
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| Photoxels |
9.00 |
01-05-06 |
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| The Canon PowerShot A620 is excellent value for money: excellent image quality with lots of detail, fast operations with no practical shutter lag, fast and precise AF that works in low-light, intuitive operation, full exposure flexibility, accurate exposure metering, an immensely practical flip-and-rotate LCD.... if you're not sure which digital camera to buy, you can't go wrong with the Canon A620. |
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| Digital Camera Info |
8.60 |
04-13-06 |
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| Review: "The Canon PowerShot A620 is a member of Canon’s A-series, one of the most popular series of digital cameras. The A-series offers easy to use models with a significant amount of manual control. The 7.1 megapixel A620 stays true to its A-series roots with a thick handgrip, 2-inch LCD monitor that folds out and rotates, and AA battery power. The Canon PowerShot A620 was announced in August 2005 for $399.
The A620 has big shoes to fill; the 4 megapixel A520 was Canon’s top seller of 2005. It provided bread-and-butter basics and manual functionality at a really good price. The Canon A620 adds a few more megapixels and a few more features; it comes with 7.1 megapixels and a 4x zoom lens, along with the My Colors picture effects mode and a slightly larger 2-inch LCD screen, which flips out from the camera body and rotates to just about any angle. This is great for viewing with a group of friends, but isn’t great for recording because of the constant adjustments that are needed with the glare the screen catches. The LCD is still a better viewing option than the optical viewfinder, which is blurry and inexcusably inaccurate. Also, the Canon PowerShot A620 is quite hefty, thanks to its four AA batteries." |
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03-11-07 |
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| Review: "Sliding easily to the head of Canon's A-series line, the 7-megapixel PowerShot A620 (and its 5-megapixel sibling, the PowerShot A610) steps comfortably into the large shoes worn by the wildly popular PowerShot A95. With a 4X optical zoom that spans a useful 35mm-to-140mm (35mm-equivalent) range, the Canon PowerShot A620 keeps up the A95's tradition of packing full manual controls and a solid list of scene modes into an easy-to-use, moderately sized camera that will meet the needs of a broad spectrum of photographers....
As expected, the Canon PowerShot A620 provided very, very good image quality. Our test shots were sharply focused, with good detail. Exposures were generally spot-on, with only a few overexposed highlights...." |
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| DPReview |
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11-28-05 |
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| The PowerShot A95 was one of the most successful 5MP compacts due to its compelling combination of features, image quality and value for money. But it was not a camera without problems - mainly performance and speed issues, most of which we - and all the people who bought it - put down to the inevitable compromise involved in getting so many features at such a keen price. The PowerShot A620, though externally pretty similar, is a very different kettle of fish. Not only does it boast a much better sensor, but the use of the latest DIGIC II processor means it's a lot, lot faster in operation too. There is very little here to suggest a 'budget' model at all; image quality is excellent, it's very well built, it handles well and it has a real wealth of photographic features that make it suitable for everyone from the absolute beginner to the more experienced photographer wanting lots of control over the picture taking process. |
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| Photography Blog |
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01-11-06 |
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| "The Canon PowerShot A620 is another winner from Canon. 7 megapixels, 4x optical zoom lens, a fold-out, twisting LCD screen, the usual excellent Canon image quality and general quick responsiveness (thanks to the Digic II processor) make this a great all-round camera. Even better for the aspiring shutterbug, the A620 also offers a complete range of photographic controls, perfect for those who want to take charge. And perhaps the best news of all, the Canon PowerShot A620 costs just over £200/$300 - I can't think of another camera that offers such good value." |
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