Canon PowerShot A520 Reviews

Rating
Reviewed by: Bruno Vasquez
(Expert)

Review Date
June 12, 2007

Overall Rating
3 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Review 1 of 7

Price Paid: $175.00 from Circuit City

Summary:

This is the family's camera. Easy to use but with enough advanced features to help produce exiting pictures. Fairly well priced for the trinket, the only drawback so far is the lens protective shutter always gets stuck when you first turn on the camera.

Strengths:

Price, features.

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Rating
Reviewed by:

jewels
( Intermediate)

Review Date
November 10, 2006

Overall Rating
4 of 5

Value Rating
5 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Review 2 of 7

Price Paid: $0.00 from warranty replacement

Summary:

this was a warranty refurb. that replaced a faulty a70. It is a fine casual small digi to have, but a slow responder. Images are sharp, saturated and look great...but you need the light because the flash recycle time is unbearable and eats batteries. Yes, this is true.

Strengths:

excellent photo quality for 4 meg
good color
easy to use menu
small, light
uses 2 aa
video good!

Weaknesses:

fairly slow start up
flash recycle time...very long and eats batteries
SHUTTER LAG, not a good action camera

Similar Products Used:

a70 canon
panasonic dmc-fz5
d50 nikon
film cameras

Customer Service:

very good CS, highly recommend canon digitals

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Reviewed by:

al.
( Casual)

Review Date
November 8, 2006

Overall Rating
4 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Review 3 of 7

Price Paid: $200.00 from best buy

Summary:

I like to take a lot of pictures of my family and my mountain bike rides. For my purposes this camera is perfect. It is fairly small, (although not the smallest) and doesn't eat batteries like some digital cameras I have used in the past. The pictures are good, although some red eye is unavoidable under certain conditions. Action shots turn out nicely and there is little shutter lag so I can usually get the shot I want.

Strengths:

-rugged - I have dropped this camera three times during mountain bike rides
-multiple auto-settings, macro, manual settings, etc
-excellent battery life (use rechargeables)

Weaknesses:

-sticking shutter cover - not just my problem

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Reviewed by:

alg
( Intermediate)

Review Date
February 16, 2006

Overall Rating
5 of 5

Value Rating
5 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

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Review 4 of 7

Price Paid: $0.00 from newegg.com

Summary:

I bought this to back up/compliment my dSLR camera for those times when carrying an SLR just isn't practical. What I really like is the ability to shoot fully manually if one wishes (including ability to use preset or custom white balances) or to flip the dial and shoot fully auto for the folks who aren't as familiar with photography (great for handing the camera over to someone to take some images for you). Image quality is very good. If you know some basics about photography and know what you can and cannot do with the camera then can actually produce excellent images with it.

Strengths:

Very good image quality from close ups to landscapes for a compact zoom P/S. Small size, ability to shoot full manual. 245 frames at superfine and largest size on a 512 MB SD memory card, decent zoom range.

Weaknesses:

Very poor performance at ISO 200 and 400, unacceptably long flash recharge time.

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Reviewed by:

nirvana4u
( Casual)

Review Date
February 1, 2006

Overall Rating
3 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Review 5 of 7

Price Paid: $310.00 from kolkatta

Summary:

this was my first digital camera,with 4mp,i use have a old one with less than 1mp,after take photos with this hotie the resolution was awesome.the first i used to take photos of my criket match in the feilds,the photos very incredible,all became fan to this little one

Strengths:

night shot is very goood compared to others makes of this range,picture quality very fine,digital zoom is sexy

Weaknesses:

shutter speed is low,good to take still snaps rather,in a slight motion aslo photos becomes hazy

Similar Products Used:

i dint used similar one,i campered mine with my friends others makes of the same range

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