Cyber Akuma Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 Ok, since its my Dad's birthday and its father's Day soon I want to get him a new camera. He has one that he got a year or two ago, but its starting to give headaches. The main problems are that pictures are terribly grainy and off-color in the dark and it's shutter rate is horrible, anything more faster than about 0.25MPH is blurred beyond recognition, and it used a flash format that wasnt too popular, XD. Most printers and other devices with built-in memorycard reader ports didnt have XD ports. After looking at multiple top10 lists, I am considering the Canon Powershot A620, most of the cameras in the top10 lists were Canon Powershots. Originally my pricerange was in the under $200 range, and this is a $300-400 camera, but there are a few online stores like buydig and newegg that are selling it for around $220 to $240, since its 7 megapixel its really kinda hard for me to try to find another for that kinda price. I was reading multiple reviews online, and it was very difficult to find a negative review on it, sure there was the occational bad review here and there but the overwhelming majority were 4/5 or 5/5 reviews. So I want to ask here too just to make sure, has anyone ever seen/used this camera? What do you think about it? Is it a good purchase for the price/megapixels/optical zoom im getting? Hows it's light/dark shooting and shutter speed? Any problems with it? Thanks for your time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpit Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 a slightly off topic question.. but what is the diff. between the A series, and powershot S series.. in the canon cameras? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galley Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 I use one of those at work, and you simply won't find a better camera for the money. Ours was $350 on sale just a few months ago. My co-worker bought one for himself for $220 a few weeks ago. :happy: I believe the "S" stands for slim bodies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Floyd Veteran Posted June 5, 2006 Veteran Share Posted June 5, 2006 A serie has more manual capability over the S serie. So basically, S serie is more P&S, that's it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viserov Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 I just bought the A620, and I'm loving it so far, though it's a tad bit bigger than most cheap digicams you can buy nowadays. If that's not an issue, buy buy buy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scizor Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 I got one last week and its a great camera. Lots of settings to play with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 Read Steve's review, talks good stuff about the camera. http://www.steves-digicams.com/2005_reviews/a620_pg7.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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