Canon Powershot A620 7.1MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom – Customer Reviews
LOVE this camera
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I bought this camera about 2 months ago and just love it.It takes excellent pictures with minimal effort.MY last camera was a 3.1 mexapixel Nikon so this is definately an improvement.This camera has a lot of nice features which I am still learning how to use.We debated about getting the Canon powershot A630 but a friend of mine has that camera and I actually think this camera takes better "out of the box" pictures.(Of course, the A630 did have a bigger screen which would have been a nice feature.) We've taken a lot of shots of my daughter who just turned 1 and again I cannot be happier with the results of this camera.
10/24/2006 12:00 AM | Rating:
Not very impressed at all!!!!
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This camera takes decent pictures half of the time, the rest suck!!The colors are off, people look darker then they are.Maybe the flash is not strong enough.I have seen pictures from 4 different occasions, mostly indoor, and 1/3 to 1/2 of the pictures come out right.It has an impressive list of features and I really like the design. I did a lot of research before getting it and looked at all the pictures online, but I am not very satisfied with it.I have used a Kodak, Olympus and a Nikon in the past and liked the picture quality on all of them, but the pictures from this camera do not come close to the other ones.
10/16/2006 12:00 AM | Rating:
Awesome camera!
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I'm 45 years old and have owned two cameras in my life. So I guess that doesn't make me an expert or anything. My previous camera was a Canon Powershot film camera, purchased 17 years ago for about $150 at Target. And it still works great. People always have said, "That camera takes great pictures." I felt like a genius, but really just bought it because it was on sale. After finally converting over to Macs and loving the iPhoto software, I decided to go digital. I automatically started looking at Canons because of the years of pleasure my other Canon gave me. I stumbled across this camera at Amazon and figured a 4.5 star average rating with 199 customer reviews had to mean it was decent. And I also read great reviews of it elsewhere. So I decided to take the plunge. Funny thing...I must've got one of the last ones of these that Amazon itself was selling. Because the price on the descriptioin page when I went to put it in my cart was $329.99. But when I added it to my cart, the price changed to $214.99...and I have no idea why. I was worried that I was gonna get some camera that was returned or something, but the customer service rep at Amazon said that that wasn't the case...that mine was a brand new camera. When it came, sure enough...it was brand new. I've only used it for about 5 days, but I love everything about it. Even the 2" screen seems plently big enough for me. The pictures are fabulous. And I was able to start taking pix right out of the box. The only thing I had to consult the manual for was how to set the time and date. Other than that, at least on the AUTO setting, it's just point and shoot. And the pix upload beautifully into my Mac PowerBook's iPhoto library. The best part, in my opinion, about using this camera with a Mac? I didn't even have to load the multiple software packages that came with the Canon camera. iPhoto handles most everything, and what it doesn't I can do in Photoshop. This is a great camera, which I think has been replaced by the A630. But I don't care! I got a great deal and love the A620. The only caveat? Buy yourself a good set of rechargeable NiMH batteries and a quality charger, like I did. Using regular AA batteries may end up costing a lot in the long run. I'd recommend the Canon A620 to anyone looking for a mid-range, quality digital camera. Look around for bargain prices on the web, though. There may be places blowing these out to make room for the A630.
10/13/2006 12:00 AM | Rating:
Not very good
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OK, I've spent years using a nice film camera -- solid body, good, interchangeable lenses, etc. -- so maybe I'm biased, but this camera just doesn't do it for me.
For starters, the thing had to go straight from the box to the canon repair center (on my dime natch, as my wife purchased the camera several months before as a birthday present so there was no option to return it to the store once my birthday rolled around, and canon did not offer to pick up the shipping): the image was blurry and overexposed.
Now that I have it back from the shop, here's my beefs: a) the viewfinder is atrocious -- only the center of the image in the viewfinder is in focus, with the rest being a blurry mess. b) Pictures are still a little blurry, even at maximum resolution. c) The supplied software doesn't have much to recommend; just a very basic image downloading/viewing program along with a program to stitch images together.9/29/2006 12:00 AM | Rating:
Excellent battery life too!
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I purchased my A620 in July 2006 prior to a cruise to Alaska.I also purchased both 1 GB and 2 GB SanDisk memory cards and 2 sets of Sony rechargable batteries plus the Sony charger.
Before the cruise I took about 600 photos on the original charge of one set of the batteries.The manuals say the batteries should be fully discharged before recharging them, so I then made 6 1GB videos trying to empty them.Then I read in the back of the manual that if you primarily use the optical viewfinder and make only occasional use of the screen the camera may take as many as 1500 shots on one set of batteries.
So I took the camera to Alaska with the original set of batteries on the original charge.On photo # 1453 the camera beeped twice and put a message on the screen "change batteries" !I put the other set in and kept shooting.
My friends on the cruise were amazed.Most of them had to recharge their digital camera batteries every night on the ship and several of them ran out of battery during the day anyway.Some of the smaller digital cameras were only getting 150 shots on one charge.
All the other good things about this camera are true, too!Big prints, no lag, good screen, good flash, Digic II is a winner!9/22/2006 12:00 AM | Rating: