Price, features.

This is the family's camera. Easy to use but with enough advanced features to help produce exiting pictures. Fairly well priced for the trinket, the only drawback so far is the lens protective shutter always gets stuck when you first turn on the camera.

excellent photo quality for 4 meg
good color
easy to use menu
small, light
uses 2 aa
video good!

fairly slow start up
flash recycle time...very long and eats batteries
SHUTTER LAG, not a good action camera

this was a warranty refurb. that replaced a faulty a70. It is a fine casual small digi to have, but a slow responder. Images are sharp, saturated and look great...but you need the light because the flash recycle time is unbearable and eats batteries. Yes, this is true.

Customer Service

very good CS, highly recommend canon digitals

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-rugged - I have dropped this camera three times during mountain bike rides
-multiple auto-settings, macro, manual settings, etc
-excellent battery life (use rechargeables)

-sticking shutter cover - not just my problem

I like to take a lot of pictures of my family and my mountain bike rides. For my purposes this camera is perfect. It is fairly small, (although not the smallest) and doesn't eat batteries like some digital cameras I have used in the past. The pictures are good, although some red eye is unavoidable under certain conditions. Action shots turn out nicely and there is little shutter lag so I can usually get the shot I want.

Very good image quality from close ups to landscapes for a compact zoom P/S. Small size, ability to shoot full manual. 245 frames at superfine and largest size on a 512 MB SD memory card, decent zoom range.

Very poor performance at ISO 200 and 400, unacceptably long flash recharge time.

I bought this to back up/compliment my dSLR camera for those times when carrying an SLR just isn't practical. What I really like is the ability to shoot fully manually if one wishes (including ability to use preset or custom white balances) or to flip the dial and shoot fully auto for the folks who aren't as familiar with photography (great for handing the camera over to someone to take some images for you). Image quality is very good. If you know some basics about photography and know what you can and cannot do with the camera then can actually produce excellent images with it.

night shot is very goood compared to others makes of this range,picture quality very fine,digital zoom is sexy

shutter speed is low,good to take still snaps rather,in a slight motion aslo photos becomes hazy

this was my first digital camera,with 4mp,i use have a old one with less than 1mp,after take photos with this hotie the resolution was awesome.the first i used to take photos of my criket match in the feilds,the photos very incredible,all became fan to this little one

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i dint used similar one,i campered mine with my friends others makes of the same range

-small size -focuses even closer in manual focus mode -great price -nice screen -great interface -relatively fast lens (f2.6 when lens is fully wide) -three compression levels at each resolution setting -powerful flash -suprisingly high sync speed (1/500th!)

-Signifigant noise above ISO 100 and unacceptable noise at 400 -Shutter lag (although it is a digicam) -Mediocre battery life (too bad it only takes two AA batteries unlike the older models which took 4) -Flash is too strong - When using it with closeup subjects it is WAY overpowered... even the flash exposure compensation doesn't really help.

The PowerShot A520 is a great digicam in terms of value and in terms of performance (for a digicam). Its low price ($200 for 4 MP and a 35-140mm zoom lens!) will certainly be appreciated by any buyer. The pictures look sharp, clear, and there is no visible distortion except for a negligible amount at the tele end (140mm). I would highly reccomend this camera, although i wish it had more battery life and a slightly less powerful flash. The camera also accepts extra add-on lenses from Canon which I have not purchased due to the bad reputation of add-on lenses for digicams. Nevertheless, the build quality is also good, as is the screen size. A great buy.

Customer Service

Haven't checked on customer service yet...

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I have not used any previous Canon digicams, however I have used a Olympus D-520, another great camera.

Camera size, buttons, image quality, panoramic photo stiching, sequence.

I need to use the software to transfer the files from the camera to the PC. Whith the Kodak I had, I saw the camera as another drive where I could move them easier. Also, there's a plastic cover that you must take to connect it to the USB cable. But really it's a nice camera. The speed between frames is OK but not amazing, but it may be because I have a cheap memory card?

Needed a camera to take mountain biking and take some pics. over there. The buttons are well organized and I can use the camera with gloves on, which is a plus. It takes awesome pictures, has more bells & whistles that I understand, I love the panoramic pictures.

Customer Service

No need to take it, so I have no idea..

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Kodak don't remember the number 5 Mpixels.