Comments on: Canon powershot A590 IS

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:02:11 +0000

This camera is worth to buy, a point and shoot camera with lots of features and excellent quality. None of my previous digital cameras compare to the Canon quality. Indors or outdoors, poor lighting conditions – no proplems for this little guy. The IS works great, I cannot believe that the photos aren’t blurry indoors without flash most of the time.
It’s size is perfect, it has a very good grip, it fits in your hand well and it is comfortable to use for extended periods of time. The design is similar to the other Canon compacts out there. It has a wide scale of preset modes and a lot of manual settings if you want to do some advanced photography.

The only thing I don’t like about it that when using flash, it takes a good 5 seconds to charge up, this is probably because of it is using only two batteries.

Overall I’m very impressed with this camera, already took around 2000 photos and had no issues at all.

Pros:
price, features

Cons:
flash charging time

By: Alex Evans

Alex Evans — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:20:48 +0000

This is my second digital camera, the first one was an 1MP Kodak from 2000. This new one has 8MP and superb features. It’s not an upgrade for me, but a completely different world. The photos are clear and colorful right out of the camera, they rarely need post processing. The autofocus is fast and accurate, there a few focus modes to select from.It has a lot of manual controls that allows to play with the aperture and exposure settings.

What I don’t like about it is the plastic tripod mount and zooming is a bit noisy. I have a 2GB memory card in it and I never ran out of space, even when shot a few small videos.

The battery life is excellent, it can take hundreds of photos with a single charge. The overall quality and the features make this small camera a very decent buy.

Pros:
features, usability, SD card, battery life

Cons:
plastic tripod mount, noisy zoom

By: Eamon Ryan

Eamon Ryan — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:50:46 +0000

I have to agree about the size, it’s a little clunky but the picture quality out of the 590 is is AMAZING, much better than all other Canon ones I’ve tried. I dropped mine twice and there was never an issues. Its a little tank!

The image stabalization is waht really makes this camera great I think. Its professional level, really works well. I still use this camera when I go to the beach as the white leveling is automatic (most people dont even know what that means) and makes for really great high light photos.

I have two cameras at the moment, this one and a DSLR.

By: Heather Ream

Heather Ream — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:30:56 +0000

This was the camera I had before last (before I dropped it down teh stairs of the bus). This camera takes the BEST pictures out of all teh point and click cameras that I have ever owned HOWEVER, it’s WAY too big to be carrying around in your handbag (if your a girl). I’d reccmomend an exilm if you are short on space, if not, I’d certainly consider teh canon a590.

The zoom is pretty decent and if I was going to buy one again, it would be as a gift for my father. Lots of features, a little chunky and big buttons, perfect for him