Digital Cameras

May 22nd, 2006 Summit

About a month ago I bought a digital camera. It was the Canon Powershot A520 and it is a great camera. I was a little nervous for this change from film to megs at first because my Dad is old-school and is pretty determined to stand by his SLR camera that is about a hundred years old. Well, just to let you know what he is thinking now, I have over heard talked of him getting a SLR digital camera.

 The reason that i like the Canon Powershot A520 is because of two simple things: it takes good pictures and it has about a million useful features that can help you in about every single way possible. It really is amazing. Usually when I buy a product I have certain expectations for my purchase and I am pleased if those expectations are at least somewhat met. In this case however, my expectations were totally blown away. It was also listed as a best buy by Consumer Reports. Some of the features I like are:

  1. It’s digital and so much easier to manage than physical pictures
  2. It allows you the flexibility to just point and shoot or to make specific changes to the aperture size, exposure time, and yady da
  3. It provides a date stamp that is not directly on the picture but in the information about the file
  4. You can adjust the megapixels of the camera to conserve space
  5. I have a 1G card in my camera and that can fit a lot of pictures and video
  6. Oh, yea, it takes video too
  7. Has a feature that takes pictures up close. We’re talking an inch away from the camera
  8. You can adjust all of the sounds on the camera and even mute everything when you start it up
  9. Like is said before, it has a million feature that makes documenting your experiences easier 

Things I don’t like:

  1. The small screen makes it tough to see if the picture is clear enough or if you should re take it
  2. You can’t zoom while using video
  3. The video light settings don’t adjust while you film. These means that if you are videoing inside and then you go to a bright outside, everything will look white
  4. I can’t believe that I am even making a “don’t like list” because these are features that weren’t available on a film camera

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