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Canon Powershot A610 Review
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Review Summary
"The PowerShot A610 sits at the top of Canon's A-series-a lineup distinguished by cameras that are fairly compact, relatively inexpensive and equipped with a robust set of exposure controls. The A610 is no exception: priced under $300, it has a 5.0-megapixel CCD-ideal for photographers who like especially large prints or who frequently crop their photos. With exposure controls that range from full-automatic, snap-shot simplicity to full-manual creativity, the A610 is a good choice for a family with widely differing photography skills. Given its low price and breadth of features, it should also be attractive to budding shooters on tight budgets who want to advance their photographic skills.
The Canon PowerShot A610 is an very worthy addition near the top of that line, offering a 5-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."
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Other Reviews For This Model
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| LetsGoDigital |
8.25 |
03-08-06 |
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| " The PowerShot A series digital cameras of Canon are well-known for their high quality features that are borrowed from the advanced Canon digital cameras like the PowerShot G-series and S-series. In fact, the Canon A610 is a combination of the best of two worlds: refined advanced features and entry-level user-friendliness.
The PowerShot A series digital cameras of Canon are well-known for their high quality features that are borrowed from the advanced Canon digital cameras like the PowerShot G-series and S-series. In fact, the Canon A610 is a combination of the best of two worlds: refined advanced features and entry-level user-friendliness." |
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| Photo.net |
7.33 |
11-15-05 |
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| The Canon Powershot A610 is the successor to the popular A95, which was itself the successor to the A80. The "A" in these names refers to the fact that they use AA batteries rather than proprietary Li-ion cells such as are found in many other Canon digicams. This means batteries are always easy to find (though you'll probably want to buy a set of rechargeable NiMH cells). The A610 now uses an SD memory card rather than the CF card used by the A80 and A95. Most small digicams seem to be making this switch. The other major changes from the A95 are that the lens is now a 4x zoom (35-140) rather than a 3x (38-114), the LCD has increased from 1.8" to 2" and operation has been speededup by using a Digic II chip (the A95 has the original Digic chip)
Digicams have come a long way. The Powershot A610 has a better lens than the A95 it replaced and the price hasn't gone up (in fact in real terms is probably cheaper!). There's little that's missing that most amateur photographers could want in a digicam. It has manual, aperture priority, shutter priority and program modes, along with a host of "scene" modes for the inexperienced photographer. 5MP is enough to make good quality 8x10 prints, which is probably as large as most users will want and if you push it you might even squeeze an 11x14 out of it. If you want more pixels, the Canon Powershot A620 is essentially an identical camera, but with a 7.1 MP sensor. The A610 is powered by easily obtainable AA batteries and power drain seems low. I can't say how low, but I've been playing with it for a week and the original set of AA cells is still fine.
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