Canon PowerShot A620 Review At Digital Camera Info

Digital Camera Info reviews the 7.2 megapixel Canon PowerShot A620 and here’s the conclusion. “The A620 has big shoes to fill; the 4 megapixel A520 was Canon’s top seller of 2005. It provided bread-and-butter basics and manual functionality at a really good price. The Canon A620 adds a few more megapixels and a few more features; it comes with 7.1 megapixels and a 4x zoom lens, along with the My Colors picture effects mode and a slightly larger 2-inch LCD screen, which flips out from the camera body and rotates to just about any angle. This is great for viewing with a group of friends, but isn’t great for recording because of the constant adjustments that are needed with the glare the screen catches. The LCD is still a better viewing option than the optical viewfinder, which is blurry and inexcusably inaccurate. Also, the Canon PowerShot A620 is quite hefty, thanks to its four AA batteries.”

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Likes - Manual controls at a low price - Spot meter linked to AF point (movable) - LCD flips and rotates to almost any angle - Alkaline AA batteries last a while - Lots of flash options - Custom self-timer keeps family picture time to a minimum - Live views in options and scene modes
Dislikes - Inaccurate and blurry optical viewfinder - LCD solarizes easily - Insensitive zoom toggle - Noisy zoom lens - Heavy - No zoom in movie mode - Poor metering and AF in movie mode - Slow burst mode

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