Canon PowerShot A40 Review

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Canon PowerShot A40
3.9 stars
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Adam.'s Review of Canon PowerShot A40

6th Apr 2003

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    3 stars
  • Ease of Use
    3.5 stars
  • Image Quality
    4 stars
  • Features
    3.5 stars
Good Points

Good battery life. Excellent LCD screen. Very high quality lens, and flash can be used many times on same set of batteries.


Bad Points

Movie clips are limited to 10 seconds on high res, and 30 on low res. Canon stingy on memory (only 8mb supplied). No camera case supplied. Quite heavy.


General Comments

I am very happy with my Canon camera - it is well worth the £250 I paid for it.

On automatic mode images in bright sunlight can be slightly overexposed. Also, the colours are slightly washed out on auto, but fine when you manually adjust the white balance. These are my only 2 gripes.

It's a very responsive and able camera, with an excellent macro facility. It uses standard compact flash cards, not like Fuji where you are forced to buy their proprietary XD cards at great expense.

Battery life is good (I used it all weekend on the same alkaline batteries), but if you were on a 2 week holiday using it moderately, I would say you need at least 3 sets of batteries to be sure you're not caught out. It works fine on rechargeable Ni-Cad or Ni-MH cells though.

Image quality is fantastic, just as good as any top-end 35mm compact camera, and if you buy a 128MB memory card you can store 130 pictures on top resolution (1600X1200) or 275 on medium (1024X768).

It has the point and shoot ease of a compact, with the versatility and features of an SLR.

It it great for novice and professional users alike, especially as the front bezel is removable for fitting a close-up or telescopic lens.

The video clip function is fair to good, especially as it includes audio, but limited in length.

I don't know how the A40 compares to other 2mp cameras out there, but I know I am very satisfied with my mine and don't regret buying this model for a second.

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