Canon PowerShot A40 Reviews

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Canon PowerShot A40
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11 Reviews For Canon PowerShot A40

  • pandrew Rank: Corporal 12th Oct 2005

    Reviewer rating: 3.5 stars


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    Good Points: Rugged.
    Good pictures.


    Bad Points: Heavy, old fashioned, and slow.


    General comments: I've been using the Canon Powershot A40 digital camera for 3 years. The picture quality is excellent, but it eats batteries - rechargeables are a must. It's rugged, having survived a few low level drops.
    The camera has the features most people want i.e. point and shoot, and a flash.
    The auto focus is sometimes painfully slow, perhaps even up to 10 seconds, worse in bad lighting, but this is an old camera now.
    It may now be outdated, but it has proved to be reliable and very useful. I would buy a Canon again.

  • antonics Rank: Sergeant 7th Jul 2004

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    Bought my Canon PowerShot A40 a year ago in Hong Kong. Best price as they were phasing-out the 2.1 MegaPixel digital cameras already (feb 2003). Added a Muse 128MB Compact Flash Card for good measure. Great value for money. Only problem I encountered was the canon software got corrupted for an unknown reason. Had to reinstall it. Other than that, a fine choice for ones who are just open to having an easy-to-use no nonsense digital camera.

  • Foxxster 19th Oct 2003

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    Bought the camera over a year ago now. Was well priced - I paid £200 but obviously now the A60 or even A70 would be the go. The camera was easy to get to use in Auto modes and even the manual options can be quite easily learned. The camera takes great photos- as good as many 3 meg cameras. And it can take great night shots too which the previous model could not. Good battery life. The only annoying thing is the zoom control which seems to have a mind of its own. Hard to make sublte changes ...

  • bubba smith. 2nd Aug 2003

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    Good quality camera which shoots above what the 2 megapixel resoultion would suggest. The quality easily compares with our last couple of 35mm cameras (sub £150 pentax and a samsung).
    The menus take a bit of getting used to but once you have had a play they gradually become intuitive. Other than that it is point and shoot.

    As I suppose is the standard these days you can alter the resolution and compression. The fine setting is OK but pretty 'snapshot', the superfine and uncompressed s ...

  • Adam. 6th Apr 2003

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    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.

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  • matolefof. 4th Apr 2003

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    I tried several cameras before finding out that this camera is the best 2MP option.
    If you are just an average user you will find it very easy to use. but if you want to be creative and use some of the knowledge acquired in your last photographic course.. you have plenty of options to do it.
    The quality is amazing compared to even 3MP models and more expensive ones.
    One of the best features is the use of AA batteries. As simply as that, you can be in the middle of nowhere and always find ...

  • Craig. 3rd Feb 2003

    Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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    I bought the A40 after having a Powershot S10. While the A40 has many more features and short video capability, it is a clumsy and poorly configured camera. To add insult, the unit was faulty causing: over and under exposure of all pics. Canon now repairing under warranty - but I would prefer to let them keep it. Poor show Canon ! Spend some money on ergonomic specialists (people with common sense) next time, before producing such a product. No points on this one.

  • Neil. 14th Jan 2003

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    I will never buy another film again. Great pics even blown up to A4. The software gets better pics from 2M pixels CF other cameras using 3 or 4M. Photo stitch is flawless. Very easy for those who just want to point and shoot to get great results + control for those who want to do their own thing. The size of supplied card is not an issue with 128Mb cards a < £40. If you want a point and shoot camera - buy this one. If you want a camara which you control buy this one.

  • Andy. 26th Nov 2002

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    I love the fact that it is not a camera where you buy and get stuck with no add-ons or accessories to enhance the photographic experience. You can add wide or telephoto lenses, use an underwater case to take pictures while swimming. Pictures are sharp, colours true to detail and contrast is balanced. However, when taking shots indoor under tungsten light, you gotta fiddle with the white balance to prevent shots getting a yellow overcast.

  • Alastair. Rank: Lance Corporal 2nd Oct 2002

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    When assessing any sort of camera, the only thing that really matters is the end result. The Canon Powershot A40 has many advanced features which are designed to get the perfect result: spot metering, variable ISO speed from 50 - 400, several white balance settings, several 'photo effect' settings, and more. Unfortunately, when looking at the final prints, it is still pretty obvious that they have come out of a digital camera. When taking indoor photos, the subject must be within the ideal range ...

  • John. Rank: Lance Corporal 12th Apr 2002

    Reviewer rating: 3.5 stars


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    The Canon A40 is a good digital camera, only HKD $2,480.

Product details

2-megapixel sensor captures 1,600 x 1,200 images for prints at sizes up to 8 x 10 inches3x optical plus 2.5x digital (7.5x total) autofocus zoom lensIncluded 8 MB CompactFlash card holds 12 images at more details...