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Canon PowerShot A60 Digital Camera

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The Bottom Line

This is a great beginner, teen, or family camera.

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Pros
  • High quality Canon lenses.
  • Easy to operate, plus some manual controls.
  • Excellent image quality.
Cons
  • Body is larger than many 2 megapixel cameras.

Description

  • Resolution: 2 megapixel CCD, Image sizes; 1600x1200, 1024x768, 640x480.
  • Lens: Canon 3x optical zoom 5.4-16.2mm (35-105mm equivalent to 35mm). 2.5x total digital zoom.
  • Viewfinder: Real image zoom optical viewfinder, 1.5” LCD monitor.
  • Exposure: Auto Exposure (evaluative, center-weighted, spot), 7 scene modes.
  • Focus: Autofocus, Manual focus.
  • Flash: Built-in flash.
  • Storage: CompactFlash (CF) card type I.
  • File Type: EXIF 2.2 (JPEG), Motion JPEG with sound.
  • Dimensions: 3.98”x3.52”x1.24”, 7.58 oz.

Guide Review - Canon PowerShot A60 Digital Camera

This camera is identical to the A70 with the exception of a slightly smaller digital zoom and about a million fewer pixels. It makes an excellent family camera for those that want to make prints up to 5”x7” and retain photo-lab quality. The quality will start to degrade on larger prints. To make prints larger than 5”x7”, a larger pixel count will be necessary to retain photo-lab quality.

This camera is very simple to operate. Mostly it is point & shoot, but with some additional manual controls for the budding artist. Additional controls include manual focus, and some preset scenes.

The brightness and color quality on this camera is exceptional, which is why this camera gets 5 stars. This camera may be a little more expensive than most 2 megapixel cameras, but the image quality is the reason.

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