Canon PowerShot A460 5.0MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom (Silver)
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon PowerShot A460 5.0MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom (Silver)
Customer Review: Canon
Summary: 5 Stars
Hello folks out there:
I brought this camera for taking pictures and keeping it on the computer. I have no intention of printing it. I am also an amatuer.
For a beginner, and one not so familiar in camera usage, it is excellent.
The camera came with several booklet, telling you how to use and take care of the camera. The do's and don'ts. It comes with a basic manual, which is very easy to understand. It also comes with an advance booklet with more detailed information for those who are experts or advanced users.
I only used the automatic features and I found it excellent. I took outdoors and indoors pictures. What amazed me was that after taking my first pictures outdoors, the camera was able to identify the scene. The first picture it said unidentified but after that it took clear picture. It also took clear pictures indoors.
I am also very pleased with the LCD monitor. I never use the view finder to take a picture, instead I use the LCD monitor, which makes it much easier, and the picture shown of the object your pointing is displayed clearly.
Customer Review: a good price grabber
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this camera as a tentative substitute for my canon s40. The price was just irresistible and I didn't have a high expectation for this. But, hey, this is a powerful digit cam!
1. Overall, the photo is sharp and of good quality. The flash light is powerful, so expect to have some shadows in the background when you take the pic inside. Perhaps a little bit too sharp for my taste (Canon s40 produces much softer pictures, though sometimes blurred), so I tend to change to manual mode for a more smooth lighting. The super macro mode is a pleasant surprise, and the scene mode works pretty well as well.
2. You can use this to take video for as long as 1 GB memory!
3. It is not a real pocket size digit cam. But it is light and is only slightly noticeable in your kakhi pocket. Not in your jeans though. I have been able to carry this in my pocket during my evening walk and it works perfectly.
Overall, for a Canon digit cam with a price like this, surely a good bargain!
Customer Review: great 1st digital
Summary: 5 Stars
I shot 35mm Kodachrome II for 30 years with an Olympus OM1 and Zuiko lenses. This was my first venture into digital still. It was such an unknown I did not even know this camera shot video when I ordered it. What a nice surprise - it is not even 720HD so it's not the greatest but it blows away the analog 8 video I was using!!! I liked that I could shoot the still photo's in 16x9 aspect so they display full frame with no issues on a widescreen TV, monitor or digital photo frame. The pics are very nice for the price & pixel count. However, by now there are some nicer point&shoot from Canon and my new favorite Lumix, that shoot both still & video in 16x9 and at least 720p....The canon cameras seem to be just a bit more vivid and better white balanced right out of the box, the Lumix took alot of tweaking to get it to suit my eye, but it could be done...All-in-all the little A460 has been a reliable point&shoot that is still giving pleasing images...Customer Review: Great compact camera
Summary: 5 Stars
I'll only mention things that I didn't pick up or remember from the other reviews I've read. I also own a 4.0MP Canon A520, so it was easy to choose the same great zoom lens.
The A460 does not have the auto-rotate feature to save photos in the appropriate portrait or landscape modes. The battery and SD card are accessed through a common door, which doesn't have quite the snap and tight fit of the A520's smaller separate doors. The handshake symbol also tends to show up often when taking indoor pictures with the flash disabled - something I don't even think about with the A520. The zoom buttons were actually more intuitive to use than I expected. But I do prefer the SET button in the center of the joypad on the A520, as I tend to forget to reach down and to the left for the SET button on the A460.
But I'm nit-picking here. Otherwise, it's a great point-and-shoot camera, with a great zoom lens, and at a great price.
Customer Review: Couldn't be better
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this camera as a birthday present for my 72 year old sister and gave her to it on our trip to Vegas. She said she wanted a really dumbed-down camera that was as easy to use as a cardboard disposable so she could just "take pictures" and not screw with buttons and adjustments. In the auto mode it does just that and takes superb pictures to boot. It will freeze the water in the fountains at the Bellagio, adjust for the very difficult lighting at the Masquerade Show in the Sky at the Rio and take night-time shots of the strip all crystal clear and with accurate color rendition. I had my much more expensive digital camera with me and found myself wanting to use the Cannon most of the time. The only problem we had with it was fighting over who was going to use it. Great deal for the money and if pushed to say something negative it would the weight and size being just a bit unwieldy.