 "Not bad" | 2008-05-27 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3EGINQHZ9EOUS |
| I like this camera, all things considered. I am only a casual photographer, so the fact that it makes it easy to take good pictures is excellent for me. I think that the menus are well thought-out and a lot of fun to play around with. My only complaint is that my camera eats batteries; I usually get to use the camera on one event per set of charged batteries. It's really annoying because it doesn't show battery status until they're almost dead. Other than that, great camera. |
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 "a let down" | 2008-03-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3TUH31SK8LFJV |
Alright. For being my first camera, I liked it at first. The main reason was because it would tell you in understandable english what setting you had it on. Another thing I liked is that when you are looking at the pics, the camera detects what way you are holding the camera, and displays the picture so it's right side up whichever way you are holding it.
Now, what is making me sell the camera and buy a different one is that well, the 5 pixels makes the pictures come out poor. And don't even try to take a scenery picture with this thing. But the main reason is that I have gone through 4 sets of batteries in one day. I wasn't even taking that many pictures, and was turning it off in between. What I think is ridiculous is that it doesn't even come with a charger, which was a very poor choice for Canon to make. One more downfall is that the display screen is a little small, it doesn't bother me that much, but I know for some people it would be a big deal.
Right now I am looking at the HP digita cameras, and they are all looking promising!
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| "Horrible in low light indoors" | 2008-01-12 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1I0NEV0G7F1ET |
First of all, I am a reporter for a weekly newspaper. This camera travels with me wherever I go. I take both newsy outdoor photos and indoor photos at social functions. It's the latter that this camera really stinks. It is programmed to wait six seconds between flash photos, which, when you are taking photos of the mayor shaking hands with another dignitary, is an eternity. I end up taking an early safety shot then completely missing the real moment. Grrrr! It also is horribly grainy indoors, often to the point of being unuseable.
But the camera isn't without some merits. Outdoors in good sunlight this little camera is fine. In fact, I've taken many good shots with it. The built-in movie mode is also very handy. Both the video and the sound are surprisingly good.
The A530 may be OK for light home use, but it is not for the professional. I'm still impressed with Canon, however, and I'm looking at getting a higher level Canon point-and-shoot digital. |
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 "takes everyday photos and art photos" | 2007-12-28 |
| - Reviewed By kassmiles |
| I love this camera. It's durable, easy to use, fits in my purse, and does everything I need it to to do. I've even dropped it a few times and it still works fine. In normal daylight, I always use the automatic settings. It takes perfect pictures. For pictures of my artwork, I change a few settings in the P mode, so I can adjust for the light and avoid using the flash. The macro works great and is easy to activate. If anything happened to it, I'd get another one either just like it or a similar model. |
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| "Surprisingly amazing!" | 2007-11-11 |
| - Reviewed By User: AV2ZCT0V0DAPX |
This camera starting surprising me the day a bought it. I've had mine for over one year now. The picture quality I experiance with this camera is unmatched.
I would have to say the video quality is good. If you're outdoors and have planty of light you'll be happy with the video. Indoors or lower light situations not so much.
Overall, this is an awesome camera for it's size and price. |
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 "Trash" | 2007-10-20 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1I393WGVSESN8 |
| Takes several tries to get a decent picture. Pics usually come out off-centered and blurry. Threw it out in frustration. Junk. Don't buy it. |
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 "Take good pics but died so quick" | 2007-09-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: ADILAZO6R7FJJ |
| I've always had good experience with Canon. I own the S400, SD400, Rebel XT . I bought a few of these A530 for the warehouse folks to use and the lens keep locking up. It wouldn't retract. One after another. I have no idea why. The cheap Kodak ones didn't have the same problem. The warehouse is quite new so I don't know if it's dirt or what. Maybe being dropped once or twice lock it up? But how come the cheap Kodak survived? Mind boggling. |
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| "Easy-peasy" | 2007-09-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: A29XKL2Q10D5GE |
I have been reading great reviews of the Canon Powershot for several years, and having taken a bunch of high-rez pictures on a Sharp, was ready for an upgrade.
Welllll... the camera is easy to use, light, simple to operate... but the pictures aren't the excellent quality I have come to expect from Canon. Good, but not great.
Service was okay, a bit slow to ship and advertised the product as new (it was not), but when they didn't have the smaller storage chip we ordered, they substituted a 1Gig which went a long way toward consoling us.
Again, good, maybe even very good, but not great.
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| "great pocket camera" | 2007-09-13 |
| - Reviewed By rlgauthier |
| Bought it for my 9 yo who was begging for a camera, solid, easy to use, hard to break. Don't need more than 5 MP on a small point and shoot, very well made. |
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| "Very Good Camera" | 2007-09-03 |
| - Reviewed By User: AJHYPH7T2MROC |
Bought this camera for my 11 and 12 yeard old daughters who find it very user friendly. The various controls are well placed, the images are bright and the memory card is placed in the same area as the batteries so that once you want to change cards the power is interrupted (since the cover must be opened )which is definitely a safety feature. The camera's macro mode allows them to take lovely pictures of flowers and insects of interest while the movie feature is used by them to make numerous movies of themselves while singing and/or dancing or even of the family. The software that comes with the camera is a defininte plus since they download everything from the memory card onto the computer's hard drive before clearing the contents of the card in order to use the camera again.
My only problem with this camera is that it is sold with a 16 MB card which, in this day, is quite useless so I think that a 512 MB card(which is what I bought for them) should be standard with the camera. |
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