Digital Camera Reviews - Customer reviews - Canon PowerShot A630 8MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom

Manufacturer: Canon

List Price: $329.99
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Name: Anon
Location:
Date: 2007-03-04
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Another wonderful Canon camera
Comment: This is my third camera in the A-series. Like its preceders, it takes crisp and clear pictures full of vibrant colors. I absolutely love the Color Accent feature, to turn all but one color black & white, which creates a professional effect of accenting one color. The zoom is also fantastic - I used the 16x to photograph some trees in the distance, and it showed a squirrel on one of the branches that couldn't be seen with the naked eye, without losing any quality. This was astounding - the Canon SD630 took blurry pictures with a 6x zoom (one of the reasons I returned it), so I was very impressed by this.

One cool feature that Powershot preceders didn't have is the large swivel screen. It's very helpful if you want to put the 10-second or 2-minute timer on and capture a picture of you and friends. You can position the swivel screen so that you can see how you look (ex: too close, too far away, off-center) and get better photos. I also liked the large size; it's high-resolution, too, so it doesn't appear grainy on the screen. My friend Nathan has a 3" screen as well, but his has low-resolution and everything always looks grainy/blurry.

One final neat feature of the A630 is it being motion-sensitive. When viewing pictures, you can turn the camera 90º and view vertical images vertically on the screen. If you try to view vertical images horizontally, you don't get a very good idea of how it turned out.

All in all, this camera takes GREAT pictures and has neat effects, but is simple enough for an amateur to use.

Name: R. Chakravorty
Location: Newark, ca United States
Date: 2006-11-29
Customer Rating: -

Summary: extreamly please with its performance
Comment: I really like this camera. It has many features of my larger and bulkier digital SLR. I like the stitching mode. The picture quality is very good. Night shots at low light performance is admirable. It is not exactly a "slim" type camera but does fit into your pocket. It servs well as camera for the starter (my wife) in the "auto" mode, or for the more experienced in the sp, or ap mode. The details in 11 by 8 prints are excellent. I am very happy with this buy.

Name: Eddie
Location: L.A.
Date: 2006-12-03
Customer Rating: -

Summary: First Time Canon Buyer
Comment: I'm a amateur for sure but this camera makes me look like a pro. I'm amazed at the picture quality especially from distance. In the zoom mode while reviewing photos I can pick up detail from far away. I wish the manual had more explanations on how to use the all the features. Auto mode works good for now.

Name: G. W. Smith
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana United States
Date: 2007-05-22
Customer Rating: -

Summary: A630 - Good all around camera
Comment: This is a nice camera for the beginner to the advance user. I'm not a tall person, so in a crowd, it nice to be able to reach up with the camera above my head to take photos and actually see the screen. The one thing I would like, but this camera does not has this capability, is image stabilization but for the price, you can't beat it. An ISO above 800 would be nice and so would having RAW but then again, it would drive the price up. It's a great point and shoot camera. Don't recommending buying the Canon recommended Power Shot case as it is a tight fit and is just barely able to close. Don't know what Canon thinking when they recommended the Power Shot Case.

Name: T. Monroe
Location:
Date: 2007-06-02
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Very Capable Camera
Comment: The first digicam I got (another brand) was very disappointing for my purposes, the A630 is a major improvement. Autofocus works very well in low light. The LCD continues to work in dim light also instead of going blank. Battery life is very good using 2000MAH AA rechargeables. The tilt/swivel LCD display is very handy when its not possible to get your head behind the camera, such as documenting wiring inside an equipment rack or taking shots from ground level. There is a programmable self-timer mode which I have found to be useful. I use the optical viewfinder often in bright sunlight when the LCD is difficult to see, many other models don't have this. The A630 is capable of very good resolution, I have used it for photographing some intricate mechanisms and circuit boards and the detail in the pictures has brought favorable comments. The auto white balance works well in most situations including dimmed incandescent light. Aperture priority mode is great for documentation shots where you need to maximize depth of field, many similar cameras don't have this mode. Outdoors the A630 reproduces blue sky and clouds beautifully without using any lens filters. I have not used the movie mode so cannot comment on that.

The pictures are a bit noisy at ISO 400 and above if enlarged although still good "snapshot" quality. In very dim light (without flash) its necessary to use high ISO and accept a little noise or stabilize the camera and use a slow shutter. The shiny camera case can be rather slippery to hold, I put a strip of cloth tape on it for a big improvement. The computer software provided has limited editing features, I use an old copy of Paint Shop Pro if significant editing 1s needed.

Bottom line: I am very happy with this camera so far, I have been able to get a good picture in just about any situation. It has many useful features the average "point & shoot" does not which makes it a practical tool for work as well as pleasure photography.

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