Canon PowerShot A580 - Silver
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Bizrate User Review.

Product Rating: 4 star(s) A good camera.

, Jul. 29, 2008
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A great value for the price I paid. The only problem I have is that with large hands, some of the controls are a little small. The software included makes it very easy to work with my photos.

QuickTake:

Pros: Out and out takes great pictures.
Cons: The controls are a little on the small side for someone with larger hands.
Bizrate User Review.

Product Rating: 8 star(s) Quick Shot Point and Shoot

, Jul. 8, 2008
Comments:
This camera is good for point and shoot pictures. It is easy to operate and compact in size. Does not take very long to learn the basic functions needed to take photos and then download them to your computer. Use is general picture taking--family events, ...

QuickTake:

Pros: Ease of use, compact size, high quality of photos without complicated adjustments.
Cons: Open LCD panel. Easy to scratch. Batteries drain quickly.
Bizrate User Review.

Product Rating: 5 star(s) Anyone can use this camera

, Jul. 4, 2008
Comments:
Instructions are clear. Easy to learn how to use. Learn to use quickly. Great pictures. Zoom is adequate. Battery use is high. Better have a supply with you for an all day adventure. Like the feel and handling of the camera. Flexible options for

QuickTake:

Pros: Great pictures; easy to use--easy to learn how to use.
Cons: High battery use;Larger than many other models
Has Owned Product: 4 weeks
imaging-resource.com Professional Review.

Canon PowerShot A580 Digital Camera - Review - The Imaging Resource!

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Designed for the beginner who wants a little more zoom than the typical 3x zoom entry-level camera provides, the Canon PowerShot A580 offers a 4x lens with fully automatic or semi-automatic settings, as well as 16 easily selectable shooting modes

Review Verdict: The Canon PowerShot A580 has an eight megapixel CCD imager coupled with a Canon-branded 4x optical zoom lens. Images are framed on the 115,000 pixel 2.5-inch LCD display, or using the optical viewfinder. Photos and movies are stored on SD / MMC cards, inc

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QuickTake:

Pros: DIGIC III image processor just like the big boys Motion detection to adjust ISO for best exposure Facial detection for portraits and to confirm those smiles afterwards Good body design, easy to hold and lightweight Good color saturation Good indoor incand
Cons: Difficult battery/card compartment latch Burned out highlights with blooming Poor digital zoom Flash washes out extreme Macro shots High barrel distortion High chromatic aberration at wide angle Soft corners at wide angle High contrast in harsh lighting I
photographyblog.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4 star(s) Canon Powershot A580 Review

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The Canon PowerShot A580 is a plastic, entry-level camera of compact dimensions. While not quite as tiny as the Digital IXUS models that we've recently reviewed, it is still on the small side â?? in fact smaller and lighter than the battery

Review Verdict: The Canon PowerShot A580 is a worthy successor to an entire line of moderately priced, yet capable compact cameras marketed by Canon over the past couple of years. In two weeks of use, I have found basic operation to be highly intuitive, with the controls

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cameras.co.uk Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4.1 star(s) Canon Powershot A580

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Review Verdict: The Powershot A580 offers both picture quality and value for money. If you are looking for a relatively inexpensive digital camera and looks and style are not everything to you then this could be the camera you are looking for.

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QuickTake:

Pros: Picture quality - value for money
Cons: Shutter lag times with flash
photoreview.com.au Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4.4 star(s) Canon PowerShot A580

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Canon's PowerShot A580 is the middle model in a trio of similar digicams that are targeted at family snapshooters. Affordably priced, their RRPs go up in $50 steps, corresponding with increasing resolution, zoom range and associated functions. All three m

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cnet.co.uk Professional Review.

Product Rating: 3.1 star(s) Canon PowerShot A580

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If you're looking for a cheap and cheerful point-and-shoot compact, the Canon PowerShot A580 could be right up your street. With its cute, plastic yet sturdy body and running on AA batteries, it features image stabilisation and 15-second long shutter for

Review Verdict: The chunky, cheery styling isn't to our taste, but the friendly price, accessible controls and respectable image quality pull it out of the bag for this unsophisticated and easy-to-use point-and-shoot

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QuickTake:

Pros: Accessible controls; decent images
Cons: Lacks panache; vanilla feature set; no optical image stabilisation
steves-digicams.com Professional Review.

Canon Powershot A580

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Canon's innovative and exclusive Motion Detection technology consolidates motion information for both the camera and the photographic subject and determines whether the subject has moved and what if any adjustments to focus or exposure needs to be made. I

Review Verdict: The "brain" in every new Canon digital camera from the PowerShot A-series to the EOS Pro models is the exclusive DIGIC III imaging processor. This proprietary chip is responsible for the cameras' higher performance levels including faster start up, faster

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alaTest.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4.6 star(s) Review summary of Canon PowerShot A580

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alaTest has collected and analysed 138 reviews of Canon PowerShot A580 from international magazines and websites.

Review Verdict: Experts rate this product 73/100 and users 90/100. Comparing these reviews to 401076 other Digital Compact Cameras reviews gives this product an overall alaScore™ 92/100 = Excellent.

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cnet.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 3.4 star(s) Canon PowerShot A580

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Review Verdict: It's slow and unglamorous, but the Canon PowerShot A580 captures good pictures at a low price.

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QuickTake:

Pros: Great pictures for little investment; intuitive operation; advanced face detection for its class.
Cons: Feels, looks cheap; bulky; slow shot-to-shot performance, especially with flash.
zdnet.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 3.4 star(s) Canon PowerShot A580

QuickTake:

Cons: Feels and looks cheap; bulky; slow shot-to-shot performance, especially with flash.
imaging-resource.com Professional Review.

Canon PowerShot A580 Digital Camera - Review

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The Canon PowerShot A580 ranks as one of the less expensive digital cameras on the market. But that was only one target Canon hit with this A-Series digital camera. With 8 megapixels, a 4x optical zoom and a 2.5-inch LCD, the Canon A580 is clearly not a

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cameras.co.uk Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4.1 star(s) Canon Powershot A580

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A combination of good picture quality and value for money is always likely to be a winner. The Canon Powershot A580 offers both. This is a 7 megapixel starter camera with a 4x optical zoom lens.

Review Verdict: The Powershot A580 offers both picture quality and value for money. If you are looking for a relatively inexpensive digital camera and looks and style are not everything to you then this could be the camera you are looking for.

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QuickTake:

Pros: Picture quality - value for money
Cons: Shutter lag times with flash
dcamerareview.com Professional Review.

Canon Powershot A580

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The Canon PowerShot A580 is an 8 megapixel point and shoot camera with a 4x optical zoom lens with Image Stabilization, a F2.6 maximum aperture, and a shutter speed range of 15-1/2,000 sec. It features a large high-resolution 2.5-in. LCD screen (115K dots

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goodgearguide.com.au Professional Review.

Product Rating: 3.75 star(s) Canon PowerShot A580

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Review Verdict: A solid entry-level camera, the Canon PowerShot A580 takes good shots and offers most of the features a beginner needs at an affordable price.

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QuickTake:

Pros: Sharp pictures, minimal chromatic aberration, motion detection, custom white balance
Cons: Some colour issues, noise a little higher than normal
digitaltrends.com Professional Review.

Canon PowerShot A580

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Even beginners can create phenomenal images with the amazing PowerShot A580. This impressive 8.0-megapixel digital camera has a 4x optical zoom and bright 2.5-inch LCD that make shooting...

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photographyreview.com Professional Review.

Canon PowerShot A580 Reviews

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Even beginners can create phenomenal images with the amazing PowerShot A580. This impressive 8.0-megapixel digital camera has a 4x optical zoom and br

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previewgadgets.com Professional Review.

Canon's triple A for year 2008 - PowerShot A470, A580 and A590 IS

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Releasing of new entry level DSLR camera, EOS 450D is not all that Canon had prepared for this years PMA show. The compact digital camera class - Canon's A class, has got three new members.

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picturecorrect.com Professional Review.

Canon Powershot A580

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The Canon Powershot A580 is an 8.0-megapixel digital camera with 4x optical zoom. It is designed to be rugged, lightweight, and packed full of features. The Powershot A580 has a CCD-type image sensor, face detection, motion detection technology, automatic

Review Verdict: As always, a high level of technological wizardry - forged over Canon's 70 years of imaging innovation and continually refined to meet the photography needs of every user from the tentative first timer to the passionate photo pro - is part of the birthrig

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infosyncworld.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 3.45 star(s) Review: Canon PowerShot A580 compact digital camera

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The Canon PowerShot A580 undercuts the PowerShot 590 IS by $30 but lacks some key features. Is it a better deal?

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QuickTake:

Pros: good overall image quality, wide selection of ISO sensitivities, white-balance control.
Cons: Slow image-processing, tends to over-sharpen, some fringing issues, serious focus-inconsistency.
cnet.com.au Professional Review.

Canon PowerShot A580 Preview - Digital Cameras

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canon powershot a580 review: Like its more expensive sibling, the PowerShot A590 IS, the A580 comes equipped with an 8-megapixel sensor, 4x optical zoom and face detect. It misses out on optical image stabilisation, though.

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QuickTake:

Pros: Accessible controls, Decent images
Cons: Lacks panache, Vanilla feature set, No optical image stabilisation
digital photography blog Professional Review.

Canon PowerShot A580

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The Canon PowerShot A580 is an 8 megapixel point and shoot camera with a 4x optical zoom lens. Canon PowerShot A580 News Release Extract Sharing most of the features and visual virtues of its image stabilized sibling, the PowerShot A590 IS, including a fa

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pcmag.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 3 star(s) 6 Excellent Entry

Comments:
Canon's A-series entry-level point-and-shoot cameras are high-quality, easy-to-use, and very affordable-in short, they're a terrific value. Case in point: We were impressed with the PowerShot A590 IS's advanced features and sweet sub-$200 price. The Power

Review Verdict: The Canon PowerShot A580 is a fine entry-level point-and-shooter, but for $30 more you can get the nearly identical A590 IS, which adds image stabilization and manual controls.

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QuickTake:

Pros: Inexpensive, even for an entry-level camera. Face detection.
Cons: Fewer features than the $179.99 PowerShot A590 IS. Bulky, boring design.
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