An excellent first digital camera (Canon Powershot A95)

Member Name: xyz123

Product:	Canon Powershot A95
Date:	13/05/09 (3 review reads)
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Advantages: Swivel LCD, manual controls, AA Batteries

Disadvantages: Heavy, uses CF cards which can be easily damaged if one is not careful, high noise at ISO 200 & 400

Bought this 5 years ago as my first digital camera and am still using the camera. It is 5 mega pixel, 3X optical zoom with 1.8 inch swivel LCD (110k pixel resolution). It uses compact flash cards and AA batteries. I particularly like the fact that it uses AA batteries as these can be found virtually anywhere in the world if you run out of them. Camera has a number of automatic settings which takes great picture in most of the situations. It also has special scene mode for taking photos in commonly found situations like bright sunlight situations on beach, night photography, action etc. On top of this camera allows you to set most of the controls manually as well. This is great for getting into the phogography and developing the skills.the swivel screen is great for taking self portraits. you can just rotate the screen towards yourself and compose the photo rather than having to guess by looking at the lens or a small mirror found on most of the other cameras. Quality of the photos is excellent and 5mp should be more than enough for most of the people as you can easily get up to 10inch prints without losing print quality.

With regards to the downsides of the camera, it does give high noise level at ISO 200 and 400. One other problem with this camera is that it is not exactly pocket camera. its quite bulky and heavy.

So to summarize if you can leave with the camera being bulky and want to learn photography this is an excellent camera.

Summary: All in all this is a great camera which takes excellent photos and with automatic and manual control

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