I have had the CANON PowerShot A80 for over three years. It's a handy lttle camera, but has not lived up to my expectations. The LCD screen is too small and difficult to see in bright sunlight, and has no brightness control. It's heavy on batteries, so you have to carry spares with you because there is no battery level indicator. Consequently you never know when the batteries will fail. Also now a new problem has emerged. The CCD has failed, in that it gives a picture dominated by one colour. Canon are replacing it at their own expense, as this problem with the PowerShot A80's CCD is known to them. I'm assured this probelm does not happen with later models.
The A80 is an easy to use point and shoot camera. It has a good picture quality for only having 4 mega pixels. The flip out LCD screen was usefull at times, I would not consider it a must have. the camera is light and ergonomic enough to handle for extended periods of time. Canon has lived up to its high quality reputation I have come to expect from there film cameras.
Strengths:
Comfortable grip, flip out LCD screen, and it uses AA or a rechargable battery. Good quality images.
Weaknesses:
Only 4 Mega Pixels. Small screen compaired to current cameras. No image stabilizing.
I picked up this litte camera to replace a Canon S45 that did not survve a down poor I got caught in while MTBing. I purchaced it used from B&H with a rating of 10. the camera is nice little P&S.
I mainly use this camera to post images on the web and it does a nice job of this. I haven't seen any reduction is photo quality when compaired to the S45 when compairing highest jpg to highest jpg.
Strengths:
flash, simplisity, features. the flip out lcd is handy. it's the first camera I've had with this feature. and lets me get angles that I would not normally be able to.
Weaknesses:
not really a weakness, but I would like it to save RAW files instead of converting to jpeg internally. but for P&S shotting and most photo's it's a logical omition.
very nice camera. My girl friend also I use this camera. Results are very good. Flash photo is very accurate. Even fill in photos are full automatic and very nice. Color balans and sharpness are perfect.
Strengths:
AA size batteries. Metal body. Manuel controls (same as Canon SLR)Ergonomic camera software.
Weaknesses:
Low resolution movie. Very complex and difficult PC software.
One of the best do it all small digicams out there.
I like this better than my S30 and I thought that was an amazing camera.
Strengths:
nice size, grip, uses AA batteries rather than proprietary, swivel display keeps display from being scratched. crisp images, manual features, great macro capability.
Nice when off; no lens cap or clamshell.
Swivel display also is nice when cam is used in awkward positions (IE: held ove a crowd).
Weaknesses:
Not too many. Suffers from same problem all cameras do in this range; slow boot up and delay to snap pic when button is pressed. Also slow set up time to next shot. Feels kinda cheap compared to the Canon S-series.
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