Canon PowerShot A85

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A few years ago, I owned a 35mm Canon that camera lived to its name. Very good product with excellent quality. I then bought a 3.2MP Sony that I ended up giving to my parents. Which forced me to invest in a new camera, and so I went out and bought a Canon A85. This was possibly my worst purchase in a very long time. I've listed a few items that I found unacceptable for a $400 camera:

- The camera is bulky and impractical for the few features it offers; this is possibly due to the fact that it requires 4 AA batteries.
- There is too much noise and grain in pictures, thus reducing the sharpness of photos. Sometimes you can hardly recognize people standing four meters away.
- It cannot focus on moving bodies so when you are taking picture you have to get your subjects to stay perfectly still or else the camera will focus on a tree behind them.
- The camera does not seem to understand the concept of Red-Eye Reduction. The feature will be on, while the objects in my pictures all have red-eye in them.

As you can imagine, I am quite disappointed with this camera. All of the disadvantages listed above, are ones that my Sony digital camera never had problems with. I thought I was uprgrading with buying a Canon (who claims to be the leader in photography), but much to my suprise I was wrong.

I also want to point out that, to many Canon users the pictures will seem fine until they look at the quality that Sony digital cameras provide. Unfortunately these consumers do not know what they're missing until they've experienced it.

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I requested this particular model (Powershot A85) after reading many reviews of this new model of Canon. They all spoke highly of it and I found all to be true! It's simple to learn to operate and takes fabulous pics both close up and at a distance. I'm not one to sit and read through the owner's manual (though it's highly recommended!). This little camera needs very little "book learning" to operate. I would recommend you purchase Nihm batteries and a charger then you won't be disappointed in the middle of a shoot!

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well overall its a good camera. it takes good pics that are full of color and detail...it seems to have a problem with lowlight shots(they get really fuzzy)i bought this camera from Best Buy and brought it home and took over 100 sample images. i was not terrably happy with the full pixel for pixel result but it takes a good print. later i desided to take it back and get a different camera. i saw that the nikon coolpix 4200 is at a new price of 349's so i desided to get that. if i were you i would spend an extra 50 bucks and get the nikon cause it takes an exelent shot, better than some 500 cameras. and the resion im getting a nikon is because my bro has the 2100 2 mp camera and it takes a better shot than this one. macro shots are hard because of the flash over exposses the pic but if you cover part of the flash it should b ok. if you would like to see some sample shots go to- http://www.pbase.com/gallery?id=2529832 the first 7 are taken with my bros nikon coolpix 2100 and the ones of the canon are a couple of my better shots with this camera. note. pbase compresses jpeg pics so the quality is slightly off on a couple of shots...please tell me if you liked the review...

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Great pictures outdoors. Excellent battery life. Horrible low light camera. My 2meg A60 by canon is half the price and takes better pictures. My 2 meg fuji 2650 also takes better pictures. Buy the A60 for about 125. You won't regret it. Get megapixels out of your head unless you're shooting larger than 8X10.

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The PowerShot A85 is the 4-megapixel "big brother" of the PowerShot A75 and replaces the Powershot A70, one of the most successful cameras in Canon's seventy year history. The A85 builds on this success by adding new features that make it even easier to u...

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