With my Fiance’s birthday last week and our upcoming wedding and honeymoon, it was due time I bought her a digital camera to replace my ageing Fujifilm Finepix S5100, a 4 megapixel, 3 year old camera that was starting to look more like an antique than a digital camera.
The first stop for me when deciding to buy a camera (well in this case, a camera for my Fiance) is to look at the Camera stats on Flickr – here you can easily pick up which cameras are the most popular across brands and type (SLR, point & shoot, cameraphone etc). Not only can you see which cameras are the most popular, you can then browse photos that were taken with the camera.
So after all my Flickring, as well as chatting to my dad who was a professional photographer in his day, I had my eyes set on the Canon Powershot A590 IS. It has the following features:
- 8.0 Mega pixels
- 4X Optical zoom
- Optical Image Stabilizer
- Face Detection
These are the features on the box, simple and clear. However, some of the other features which I find very useful on the camera are:
- Built in Accelerometer – so when viewing a vertical picture, turn the camera and the image rotates.
- Focus check – after taking a photo, it can automatically show you a zoomed in version of the photo, thus determining if the photo was in focus or not.
- Speed of use – it takes less than 1 second from turning the camera on to the ability to press the shutter button – paparazzi styles!
- Video – the video quality is also very good as well as it has the ability to zoom while recording.
We haven’t taken lots of photos yet, but we will be snapping away at the wedding as well as on honeymoon, so add me as a contact on Flickr and check back soon!
Lastly, you can get this Canon Powershot A590 IS camera from SACamera for R1799. It was the cheapest price I could find online and at retail shops. Along with all the camera accessories they sell, they are also a authorised Apple retailer. In exchange for this review they offered to give me a camera bag and 2GB memory card. So a big thanks to SACamera!
