Canon PowerShot A85 Review

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Canon PowerShot A85
4.8 stars
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christophermartin's Review of Canon PowerShot A85

4th Jul 2005

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Image Quality
    4 stars
  • Features
    4.5 stars
  • Time Digital Camera Owned
    1 - 6 Months
  • Battery Life
    3.5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4.5 stars
Good Points

Lots of features & settings!
Great for night photography!
Super Macor ability for a camera it's size and class.
3x Optical Zoom all you need!
1.8 LCD screen the right size!


Bad Points

Digital Zoom of a total of 11X is terrible, don't ever use it.


General Comments

The Canon Powershot A85 might just be the best overall camera in its class. Here's why...

Image Quality: The image quality on the A85 is most impressive. It's 4.0 MP can capture amazing stills that look so good you'd swear they were film photographs. Even the colouring of the images is crisp and just about dead on.

Features: It has in the user settings: Manual, Apature Value, Time Value, Personal.
Automatic settings: Auto, Portrait, Landscape, Sports, Night and Scene (which is for different lighting situations.)

Overall the features on this camera are great! And will satisfy most experts (the non Picky kind) and novice alike!

Battery Life: With four batteries this camera lasts 2.5x longer then a 2 battery camera because there is more of a charge. The batteries last about 150-200 pictures using normal AA Alkaline Batteries. If you use dollar store batteries then they'll last 8-10 pictures. This is pretty good. And think of Batteries for a digital camera as film that way they don't seem so expensive.

Ease of Use: This camera is so easy to use you'll think you're a photographic genius when you start seeing great images that you took. And maybe you actually are and you didn't know it?

Value for money: The A85 is very affordable and is a wonderful deal now. Around $200 US which is a pretty amazing deal!

Overall Rating: I give this camera a 9/10! Mainly because it serves the user so well. It is one of the best P&S cameras on the market.

Review by ChristopherMartin

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