Canon PowerShot A590IS Point and Shoot Digital Camera Review

Canon first introduced its Powershot A590IS digital camera in early 2008. Since then, it's gotten rave reviews from users and camera authorities alike. The two reasons that really make this camera stand head and shoulders above its competition are price and ease of use. This camera also comes fully loaded with the latest features usually found on higher-end, more expensive cameras.

When this camera first started selling, it was going for just over $200. As of the time of this writing, you can find this camera on Amazon for a little over $100. This means it's priced well with easy reach of everyone leaving enough money to buy important accessories to go with it like a case, rechargeable batteries, and a larger memory card.

Canon has really out done itself in terms of ease of use when it made this camera. It has what Canon calls the "Easy Mode." This means you can basically just pick this camera up, turn it on, select the easy mode, and begin snapping away. The camera is smart enough to handle all of the details for you and still produce excellent pictures that you'll be proud of. This is one of the many features that has received overwhelming positive feedback from new and experienced camera users.

Two handy features that are not highlighted by Canon are the battery and memory card types. It takes two AA sized batteries to operate. You can buy regular off-the-shelf AA batteries anywhere and they'll take around 200 pictures before they need replacing. However, it is recommend that you buy rechargeable batteries and a charger for use with this camera. You'll get more pictures before you have to change out the batteries and save money by not having to buy new ones all the time.

While this camera comes with a 32MB memory card in the box, it's too small in terms of picture storage capacity. The memory card format that this camera uses is SD and SDHC. These types of memory cards are easy to find and very inexpensive. You can buy a 4 GB (gigabyte) SDHC memory card for around $10 these days. That's enough storage capacity for around 4,000 high quality pictures or 90 minutes of high quality video recording.

The low purchase price, ease of use, low-cost and availability of batteries and memory cards combined with advanced features such as Motion Detection Technology, Image Stabilizer Lens, and Face Detection Technology, really make this camera a hands down winner.

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