Digital Camera Review: PowerShot A480

The PowerShot A480 Digital Camera by Canon was given to me as a Christmas gift. I have been tinkering with it off and on for the last week and I have been very pleased with it. I took a few sample shots of the Christmas tree and when I downloaded the images to my computer, the pictures were perfectly clear. The camera I had before was a Samsung. The pictures came out pretty nicely, but they were not as clear as the pictures that come from my new digital camera.

The new Canon digital camera has 10 Mega Pixels, a 3.3 optical zoom, and a large LCD monitor. My camera's color is red. The LCD monitor was produced with very high precision. The camera also takes great videos and the audio is wonderful. The amount of recording time depends on the type of memory card you have. I have a 2 GB memory card which gives me the ability to take over 16 minutes worth of video and 749 pictures. If you have an 8 GB memory card, you can take over an hour video and 2994 pictures.

The camera itself is fairly easy to use. An easy to follow manual is included with the camera. Other items included with the camera include alkaline batteries, a memory card, interface cable, AV cable, wrist strap, a digital camera solution disk, and a warranty card. My camera was purchased from Wal-Mart and can probably be purchased at several other technological stores.

Camera Stats Summarized:

10 Mega Pixels

3.3 optical zoom

large LCD monitor

Compatible batteries include AA-size alkaline and Canon AA-size NiMH batteries.

Compatible memory cards include SD memory cards, SDHC memory cards, MultiMediaCards, MMCplus memory cards, and HC MMCplus memory cards.