I have had the CANON PowerShot A80 for over three years. It's a handy lttle camera, but has not lived up to my expectations. The LCD screen is too small and difficult to see in bright sunlight, and has no brightness control. It's heavy on batteries, so you have to carry spares with you because there is no battery level indicator. Consequently you never know when the batteries will fail. Also now a new problem has emerged. The CCD has failed, in that it gives a picture dominated by one colour. Canon are replacing it at their own expense, as this problem with the PowerShot A80's CCD is known to them. I'm assured this probelm does not happen with later models.

Comfortable grip, flip out LCD screen, and it uses AA or a rechargable battery. Good quality images.

Only 4 Mega Pixels. Small screen compaired to current cameras. No image stabilizing.

The A80 is an easy to use point and shoot camera. It has a good picture quality for only having 4 mega pixels. The flip out LCD screen was usefull at times, I would not consider it a must have. the camera is light and ergonomic enough to handle for extended periods of time. Canon has lived up to its high quality reputation I have come to expect from there film cameras.

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flash, simplisity, features. the flip out lcd is handy. it's the first camera I've had with this feature. and lets me get angles that I would not normally be able to.

not really a weakness, but I would like it to save RAW files instead of converting to jpeg internally. but for P&S shotting and most photo's it's a logical omition.

I picked up this litte camera to replace a Canon S45 that did not survve a down poor I got caught in while MTBing. I purchaced it used from B&H with a rating of 10. the camera is nice little P&S.

I mainly use this camera to post images on the web and it does a nice job of this. I haven't seen any reduction is photo quality when compaired to the S45 when compairing highest jpg to highest jpg.

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AA size batteries. Metal body. Manuel controls (same as Canon SLR)Ergonomic camera software.

Low resolution movie. Very complex and difficult PC software.

very nice camera. My girl friend also I use this camera. Results are very good. Flash photo is very accurate. Even fill in photos are full automatic and very nice. Color balans and sharpness are perfect.

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It hasn't need.

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Exposure and mode settings let you get pro results. The barrel used to adapt the WA and tele lenses also holds 52 mm filters: I adapted my 55 mm 35mm filters to the camera and the saturation and sharpness was grand.

Camera shake: get it on a tripod, between it being little and light and the usual digital camera lag time, this, and leaving it on Autoexposure in tough lighting setups, is the chief cause of picture mistakes.

The camera delivers very sharp and well exposed pictures on auto, but you really owe it to yourself and the manufacturer to read the manual and try out the huge matrix of features. It does it all and still goes into a shirt pocket.

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so far not needed

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The A80 replaced my Canon A20, which is still in use

This camera has many awesome settings that allow for some great effects. It is light and portable with a fold out LCD screen. It seems to be very user friendly.

I've had to replace the camera once, luckily it was on warranty. It just locked up and then died. One main weakness is the small LCD screen, it limits who can easily use the camera. Another weakness is that it takes a few seconds to get the shot, it is slow.

This is a very good camera that is worth the $400 price tag. It has many awesome settings that can get some great affects. I like how easy it is to use. If you have trouble seeing small objects, you probably shouldn't get this camera because the LCD screen is about an inch and half wide. You should get this camera if you have at least intermediate photography skills, if you just want a camera to take family pictures once in awhile etc..go with another camera.

Customer Service

Customer service has been great. I had to replace the camera once on the warranty and the people were great about it.

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