Sep 09, 2005 04:14 PM
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(Updated Sep 09, 2005 04:18 PM)
I bought a Canon A95 camera recently when I did a short visit to US. The camera is great , takes good pictures.
It provides custom modes for easy photography, such as SCN, portrait, night shots etc..
I took night photographs without flash for distant lights and landscape it came superb.
Its not necessary to use the flash normally, even in the evenings at indoor lighting conditions it takes pretty natural photographs.
This camera is also great becuase it allows you to do auto focus photography and also has good manual adjustments for aperture and speed, which is normally not found in all camera in this price range. As a result you can master your photography skills and learn manual adjustment for flash and aperture etc.., and take good photographs.
Flash seemed to me good only if you do manual adjustment.
The memory card which comes along is too small for high resolutions images, so its recommended to buy a 256 or 512MB card as a addon accessory. Also its quite cheap to buy over Internet in the US , you can get it as cheap as 14000 Rs. instead of paying 20000 Rs. in india.
Overall the camera is good, LCD is quite clear. But one needs to handle the LCD flap with care, since it looks little fragile. It runs on 4 AA size batteries, and can take upto 100-150 snaps atleast. While replacing the batteries one needs to be little careful with the opening and closing the compartment , since its kind of a tight fit.
One could also buy a canon battery charger if interested, I did not feel it was necessary.
This camera can take decent videos for 1 min duration at a given time, and comes well in terms of sound and video.
Best part of it was it allows taking adjacent snaps of landscape and the software allows to create a panoramic image of the same. I created a few and they look perfect.
Software given along with the camera is also quite good.
It gives a 3x optical zoom, which is not great but ok.
Since its a 5 Megapixel camera snaps can be large in size but has got good clarity.
Also it allows you to attach telescopic lens or wide angle lens to it !!, which usually the SLRs allow., which I felt was a good feature.
Perhaps it has the best picture clarity in this segment of camera. I had done serious research on the web before buying this one.
Overall I recommend this camera as a good buy ..
