Canon PowerShot A70 3.2MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon PowerShot A70 3.2MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom
Customer Review: Manufacturer Quality Control is very bad
Summary: 1 Stars
After reading some other reviews before me, I guess that the Quality control at Canon (Malasia) is very bad. Most of our friends who rated 1 star seem to have similar QC complaints.[For the cost], A70 clearly has best features than any other 3 MP DC in the market. Also, professional reviews have been the best for this camera.
I got mine after a long wait and I started learning the operation of the camera. I even took a few snaps of my Kitchen (photo had lot of shades, they were just experimental shots though).
Next day when I switched the camera on, nothing shows up in the LCD except for some default menus. This happened in both shoot as well as play modes. I spent about 4 hours reading the manual to get it right but had no luck.
I just returned it and order a new one. Lets hope this one works.
Customer Review: Great camera until it died
Summary: 1 Stars
I happened to see all of the "not so good reviews" on the Canon A70 and thought I needed to send in my bad luck story also. I'm in Iraq right now and my wife was using our camera the other day taking pictures of the kids and it stopped working. After going through all the troubleshooting, she still can't get it to work (won't turn on at all). My initial thought is that it will cost well over $100 to fix and the camera really isn't worth much more than that now. The camera is about two and a half years old and I figured for what I paid for it it should have lasted a lot longer. So, I went from having a great camera to not having one at all. My next thought is my next camera probably won't be a Canon. Sorry Canon, but after all the recent reviews here you might want to look into this.Customer Review: Do not buy this camera
Summary: 1 Stars
I've had this camera for a little over a year. Initially, i thought it was a great camera. It worked fine and even though it was only 3.2 megapixels, the picture were great for what i used it for.
However, currently my camera is in a repair shop. When you turn it on, all you get is a black fuzzy screen. After reading several of these posts, i understand this is a common problem. In fact around the same time this happened to my camera, one of my colleagues had the same exact problem with his canon. His camera is also at the repair shop.
Unfortunately, my experience with this camera impacts my decision on other products, and i would probably never consider buying anything canon makes ever again, be it cameras or printers etc.
Customer Review: My A70 died 12/25/2006
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this camera after several relatives bought it and said great things. I thought the bright light pictures were good, but low light pics always blurred.
I had some LCD trouble in November, but was able to turn on/off the camera and get some pictures from it. On Christmas Eve I took pictures without any of the previous trouble. On Christmas Day - trying to take pictures of my kids opening presents - my A70 DIED. No pictures for 2006!
The camera was less than 3 years old. I've owned Canon cameras for over 20 years and this is the first time I've gotten a defective product from them. Looks like others are having same trouble.
I don't recommend buying the Canon A70 camera. My aunt's camera died also.
Customer Review: Mine no longer works either....
Summary: 1 Stars
I really loved this camera--for 13 months.
Then, like some other people who have reviewed this camera, the lens stuck open.
Fortunately, thanks to another reviewer, I discovered that American Express doubled the 1 year warranty, and issued me a credit. (Took about a month of back and forth faxing, returning the camera, etc).
I love the camera so much that I'm tempted to buy the same one all over again---as long as it breaks within 2 years, I'll be fine :)
Most likely I'll upgrade to a newer Canon model---again, as I said, while it worked it was a wonderful camera, easy to use, easy to upload photos via the USB port of my PC, and with my Viking expansion memory card, stored a bunch of photos.