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Canon Powershot A630 Silver Digital Camera

Powershot A630 Silver Digital Camera

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Canon Powershot A630 Silver Digital Camera

  • Reviewed by:

    06-29-07

    Duration of ownership: 14 Days

    Strengths: Great pics

    Weaknesses:not durable at all! EASILY damaged

    Overall Evaluation: I am practicallly an advertisement for the A620 version of this camera! I LOVE it! I treated myself to the upgrade and was horrified when my camera broke after only a minor fall. After only two weeks, my camera is at the Canon repair center. I am horribly disappointed in the durability of this camera! My A620 was SO very durable and this camera is super delicate at best. You can tell the case is lightweight. Be VERY careful! I have a two year old so durability is essential.

  • Reviewed by: john_t1234

    02-24-07

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Excellent pictures, manual controls, flip-out large crisp LCD, optical viewfinder, upgradeable

    Weaknesses:None

    Overall Evaluation: The Canon Powershot A630 Digital Camera takes excellent pictures with the included settings or can be adjusted with the manual controls. The flip-out LCD is very useful in practice. Unlike many other cameras nowadays, there is an optical viewfinder. The camera also supports lots of upgrades such as wide-angle or telephoto lens, external flash etc.There is no rechargeable battery included, but on the other hand you can always use regular alkaline batteries during emergencies. You can't do that with proprietary batteries.

  • Reviewed by: rapchef2

    02-01-07

    Duration of ownership: 3 Months

    Strengths: Fully rotating LCD screen, LONG battery life, excellent picture quality, fast shutter recovery.

    Weaknesses:Red eye on indoor photos with flash. However, I corrected this easily just using the Walmart software that comes on the picture cd's.

    Overall Evaluation: I am only a novice photographer that takes family and vacation pictures, but speaking for the average user, this is a fantastic camera. I previously owned an Olympus digital that would blur pictures every time my kids moved the slightest bit. With this camera, I took shots of my daughter bouncing on a bouncy ball and it didn't blur at all. Not only that, but the shutter was fast enough that I caught her in mid-air. I love the rotating screen because it allows the photographer to take photos of themselves (albeit close ones). I've taken pictures of myself holding my new baby close to my face, and I hold the camera up high to get photos of her in my arms so I'll remember looking at her from that angle (big selling point for new moms when the dads aren't shutterbugs.) With the fast shutter recovery, I am able to take successive shots and capture several silly newborn expressions that are usually difficult to capture. I can't stress that advantage enough when you have kids!! If you lose a shot with a slow camera, you'll never get that opportunity back. This camera is one of the fastest in terms of delay between shots. My home has VERY POOR lighting, yet my photos still come out better than I expected. Sure, some have darker backrounds, but the subject is well lighted and it's significantly better than other cameras I've tried. Outdoor photos and good indoor lighting come out fantastic. I do have red-eye on most of my indoor photos, but I got that out easily with the Walmart software on the picture cd's. I don't know what the other reviewer was talking about with floating red over heads and not being able to remove the red eye. The battery life is enormous. I had the camera on to learn how to use it, took over 400 photos that I kept and countless photos that I erased all on the same batteries. The size is not micro-small, but it is small enough for a purse or a coat pocket. The only negative thing I could say about this camera is that there are more features than the average family photographer will ever need. And sometimes I've accidentally changed options on the menu that I don't know how to de-select. But that is a user problem, not a camera problem. I highly recommend this camera.

  • Reviewed by: funwithmacs

    01-18-07

    Duration of ownership: 2 Days

    Strengths: Easy to use, lots of automatic and manual settings, clear close shots, good indoor close shots

    Weaknesses:Consistent red-eye in every picture where flash is used, lots of noise in photos where zoom was used.

    Overall Evaluation: I am no newbie to digital cameras. I've been using them for quite a while. I finally decided that it was time to upgrade from my aging 2 MP Vivitar camera to a newer camera. After much reading, it appeared as though Canon was the benchmark to which all others were compared. I could hardly find a bad review of the Canon cameras. So, I went ahead and set my sights on the new 8 MP Canon a630. I saved-up some money, and got one. I was immediately impressed with it's ease of use, and found it very fun to use. I thought I had a winner. That is, until I uploaded the pictures to my computer. That's when the dreaded red-eye made itself known (you couldn't see the red-eye when reviewing pictures on the built-in LCD). I found that in every shot where the flash was used (even in red-eye reduction mode), that red-eye was dominant. I say dominant, because it was the most dominant thing in the picture. The red-eye was so dominating, that it was practically the only detail you noticed. In-fact, in many shots, the red-eye actually looked like glowing eyes that were hovering above the face. Like hovering red balls of light. Oddly, I found that even in shots that were side profiles (where the eyes were facing away from the camera), that red-eye would still appear. This seemed odd since the shots were directly from the side of the person and their face was away from the camera. So, there was no direct visibility of their eyes. As a matter of fact, from that camera angle, their pupils were not even visible. But, oddly red-eye prevailed in the picture. It looked like a glowing red light ball hovering right against their face. Even stranger, was that distance made no difference. I could photograph someone from 30 feet away, and red-eye was dominant. We tried again with a side profile from about 30 feet away, and again you could see red-eye (although the camera angle would not have even shown their eyes). Now, to compare this fairly, I took these shots in the exact same environment that I previously used for my other camera. And, the indoor shots were even taken in the exact same lighting as my other camera. With my old Vivitar 2 MP, I have taken nearly 2 thousand shots (stored on my computer), and have not ever had a single one show red-eye. But, with the Canon a630, I took 60 shots, and only 5 of them didn't have any red-eye. Those 5 were taken with outside light and no flash. Even worse, was the process of removing red-eye from the photos on the computer. The red-eye was so bad, that I had to run the 55 photos through 4 different programs to re-touch the eyes and make them look semi-normal. So, the Canon definitely does not favor well in comparison to my old Vivitar. So, I took the a630 back for a refund, and have gone back to using my old Vivitar. I only kept the Canon for about 2 days. The store had a re-stocking fee and very limited return policy. At this point, it would appear as though the new Canon cameras need some work to compare to other cheaper cameras from 5 years ago. The one nice thing I can say about the camera, is that it takes beautiful close-up shots if you are in outdoor environments. Those shots turned-out beautiful. The focus on the subject was perfect. But, it does produce some artifacts in the surrounding details around the subject. My Vivitar would focus all of the details and produce a complete picture of the subject in their environment. The Canon provided only rough details of the environment, and perfect details on the subject. As for distance shots, I found that the Canon's built-in optical zoom was good to about 4 or 5 feet. Beyond that, and the noise in the picture was terrible. Zooming-in on something or someone about 15 feet away would produce nothing but a blurry picture. It's detail in "indoor" and "night" modes were not even worth taking the picture. Those looked like a dark room with lots of fuzz and the subject was a rough outline. The photos taken in "auto" mode in the same light looked much better. I hope this helps to save someone the trouble of losing their money on a "re-stocking fee" or dealing with returns. Good luck to you shoppers out there.

  • Reviewed by: howaboutjim

    01-05-07

    Duration of ownership: 4 Weeks

    Strengths: 8 Megapixels, Large LCD that folds out (great for around the corner shots), Easy to hold in hand, Many different preset modes for the beginner and advanced controls for the more experienced shooter

    Weaknesses:Large LCD is grainy and blurs when moving, heavy when compared to my former A510 which only had two batteries

    Overall Evaluation: A great camera with few weaknesses! When compared to my former A510, the pictures are somewhat crisper and cleaner, but otherwise have that same great Canon look to them. I wish the camera were as small as the A510, which was easy to fit in a large pocket and was not as heavy (had only 2 AA batteries). But having 8 megapixels and a fold out LCD are well worth the extra size and weight. A highly recommended camera!

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