Canon PowerShot A70 Reviews

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Canon PowerShot A70
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9 Reviews For Canon PowerShot A70

  • hb1444 Rank: Staff Sergeant 11th Jul 2006

    Reviewer rating: 2.5 stars


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    Good Points: Nice shape, easy to fit in a pocket. Good sized LCD screen, 3.2 megapixels


    Bad Points: Too power hungry. Very heavy containing batteries


    General comments: I have used my Canon Powershot A70 Digital Camera for over two years. This was my first digital camera. It served me well when I took photos until its power intake got the better of it. I was charging the batteries for ages and found that it only worked for less than an hour. Then I decided to use my batteries in my coffee machine - one fell and rolled under my washing machine, paid 5 pounds for a new set, was worse off, at parties and weddings the camera cut out again, now the memory card has failed, at the wrong time (on the way to my cousin's wedding!) and now I could not take photos on five occasions (FIVE wedding parties) I have now decided that a digital camera is a waste of time and money and I have now opted for my 0.3 inbuilt camera on my Nokia 3220. What a waste! I know that my camera has not let me down, but I know that its accessories let it down!

  • ea hoffman 4th Jun 2006

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    After buying the Canon PowerShot A70 digital camera new and owning it for a year and a half, it developed an E 18 error message and the camera no longer worked. I discovered this was a common problem with all Canon digital camera; some sort of manufacturing glitch, but Canon refused to make good on this product.

  • mr blue sky Rank: Corporal 5th Apr 2005

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    Recommend to potential buyers: yes

    Full review of the Canon PowerShot A70
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    A brief history of my digital camera fun.

    I started about 3 years ago with what was basically a toy digital cam.
    This rubbish, but functional item was bought from a giant Pound land type of superstore for the terminally skint, well, I like a bargain . Buy cheap buy twice as they say!
    It took pictures at a max resolution of 640 x ...

  • skysurfer Rank: Lance Corporal 3rd Mar 2004

    Reviewer rating: 3.5 stars


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    After the lens cover on the Canon PowerShot A70 jamming a few times, either not closing or not opening it finally fell off!
    Also, when using the Digital camera with gloves on, I obstructed the lens a couple of times by accident when switching it off. This results in an error code and no further function even when cycled off/on. With some manual intervention it could be brought back to life! The picture quality is good. I've got some good pics of lightning using the manual features.

  • RickL591 18th Dec 2003

    Reviewer rating: 2.5 stars


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    I upgraded to this Canon PowerShot A 70 digital camera from a Powershot A40. I was never really impressed with the overall picture quality even set at it's best resolution. So after only two months, I have shipped it into Cannon repair and hopefully they can correct the "fuzzy" resolution problem.

  • Genghis Rank: Lance Corporal 29th Nov 2003

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    This Canon PowerShot A 70 was my first digital camera and I did some research to find what would be the best. The A70 came on top, for a 3 million pixel camera, with an adequate zoom capacity. It was a bit bulky, but that was due to he fact that it took standard AA batteries.

    I was amazed by the excellent picture quality and just how easy the camera is to use. You have an excellent range of auto functions and you can also do things maually. The video clips are brilliant.

    This is a lovely c ...

  • Tony. 16th Jul 2003

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    I bought this camera recently, quite off hand without doing any research, as I had some bonus dosh and wanted an upgrade from an old Fuji 1.2MP thing.

    Shortly after, I decided to learn about manual photography as I rather like taking pictures, and I think my composition is ok. Never understood all that ISO and F.Stop stuff though!!!

    I was exceedingly pleased to find, as I plowed thru various books on digital photography, that this little number is incredibly versatile, giving access to man ...

  • Mahler. 20th Apr 2003

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    This is my first digital cam. I did a lot of research before getting this Canon PowerShot A70. For all features this camera offers, this is a good deal. I like the manual controls and all other 10 shooting modes for stills. Pictures captured in lowest resolution still give good qualities.
    One negative thing is the compartment doors (for batteries, CF card and cables) look kinda cheap and not closed tight enough though they are shutted already. Compare with S400, A70 is heavy and a bit bulky but ...

  • Chris G. Rank: Lance Corporal 21st Mar 2003

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    This was my first venture into digital photography and i wanted to start on the cheap (Epson C82 (under £100)) left me with £300 for the camera. I went for the A70 (and a battery charger) after reading some reviews on the web and overall I'm incredibly pleased with the whole package. The images are clear and colourful and printed out at 10x8 you can't fault them. The controls are simple, and yet give the user plenty to 'play' with and experiment with exposures etc. The LCD is great a ...

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3.2 megapixel sensor captures enough detail to create photo-quality 8 x 10 prints and medium-quality prints up to 11 x 143x optical zoom and 3.2x digital zoom (9.6x total)Up to 3 minutes of video with more details...