Canon PowerShot A550 7.1MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom by Canon
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Digital camera reviews of Canon PowerShot A550 7.1MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom
Digital camera Review: Canon PowerShot A550
Summary: 5 Stars
This camera was given to someone else as a gift so I can't vouch for the quality of the item. However, I did get to take a few sample pictures with it and operate the controls; and found it to be loaded with features and easy to use.Digital camera Review: Canon PowerShot A550 7, IMP Camera w/ 4x Optical zoom
Summary: 5 Stars
I really like this camera! Small and compact digital camera with 4x optical zoom, it is easy to use which is a must for me, since I am technically challenged most of the time. . I use it to take photos of my ebay items and family outings. This small camera takes true color pictures ,close up or distant.Also has a convenient carrying strap. Has cord with easy to understand program for downloading the pictures to your personal computer.Digital camera Review: Canon PowerShot A550 7.1MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent camera for the money. Could not beat the Amazon price and I really tried. The software that comes with the camera is all you need, it is excellent. This is the bottom of the line for the PowerShot, but it has most of the feautres that the average user will ever need. I strongly recommend it.Digital camera Review: Canon PowerShot A550 is a solid budget camera
Summary: 4 Stars
Canon's PowerShot A550 is a simple, inexpensive 7-megapixel camera, and that's all it wants to be. While it has some nice features, it doesn't offer any outstanding, unique aspects that put it above any other camera in the field, and that's just fine. Good performance and solid images are all a camera needs to succeed, and the A550 delivers just that.
Though not quite small enough to slip into your jeans, the A550 is still comfortably compact. At 7.4 ounces and 1.7 inches thick, the camera can fit easily into most jacket pockets and bags. The camera's body has an L-shaped design found on most of Canon's PowerShot A series, giving it a generous grip. The buttons are large and comfortable, and they're laid out logically along the back and the top of the camera.
The A550 is a fairly nondescript camera, with few outstanding or unusual features. Its most notable attribute is its 35mm-to-140mm-equivalent 4X zoom lens, which gives it just a bit more range than the 3X lenses typical of most budget cameras. It has a smaller-than-usual 2-inch LCD screen that is augmented by an optical viewfinder for shooting in dim light. Besides those features, the A550 has the standard handful of scene presets and image adjustment settings, including a 30fps VGA (640x480) movie mode and a pleasantly unexpected 60fps QVGA (320x240) high-speed movie mode. Finally, like most Canon PowerShot A-series cameras, the A550 conveniently takes AA batteries.
The A550 performed well in almost all of our Labs' tests. After its brisk start-up time of 1.5 seconds, we could snap a shot once every 1.7 seconds, a great improvement over previous PowerShot A5x0 cameras. Unfortunately, with the onboard flash enabled, that time more than tripled to 4.9 seconds per shot. The camera's shutter was responsive, lagging less than 0.5 seconds with our high-contrast target and a modest 1.2 seconds with our low-contrast target. Burst mode was also pleasantly fast, managing 51 full-resolution shots in 31.4 seconds for a rate of 1.6 frames per second.
Photos looked pretty good, though they're marred by overprocessing and fringing in spots. Colors reproduce well, though indoor photos shot with automatic white balance come out very yellow, a common problem for most snapshot cameras. Noise is low up to ISO 400 sensitivity, where a fine grain starts to appear. Images are predictably noisy at ISO 800 sensitivity, with speckling damaging fine details and softening colors. ISO 800 is usually reserved for low-light and high-speed shooting, and everyday snapshots shouldn't have many problems.
With quick performance and decent photos, the Canon PowerShot A550 is a solid budget camera. It doesn't have many special features and it's not particularly small or light, but it's a strong choice if you don't want to spend a lot for your snapshots.
Digital camera Review: Canon Powershot
Summary: 4 Stars
I love the camera. Easy to use and small but not too small so that it is hard to press the buttons. Easy to download into my computer and an overall wonderful product.