Canon PowerShot A460 Reviewed

Sometimes you just want a digital camera that’s inexpensive, simple and easy to use, but produces high quality photos that you can be proud of. Sometimes you just want a camera that you can grab, slap in your pocket, and take off, knowing that the images that you end up with are going to be of high quality – yet a camera that’s durable and tough enough so that you don’t have to baby it. That’s what you get with the Canon PowerShot A460.

Here’s the deal, the PowerShot A460 is a very easy to learn and use 5 megapixel camera from Canon that lives up to the quality of Canon in a variety of ways – mainly the superior image quality. Basically this is a point and shoot camera that is simple to use anywhere you’re at with a plethora of features. Of course if you’re a serious professional photographer or hobbyist then this digital camera isn’t for you but that’s obvious. But, if you’re the type of person who wants to go out and capture some important moments without having to take a class first to do so, then the PowerShot A460 is perfect and brilliant for what it does. With 5 megapixels you’re going to get a quality of photo that’s perfect – especially for the price that you’re paying. This is an inexpensive camera with exceptional quality and that’s pretty much an understatement. You’re equipped with 4X optical zoom which packs a pretty powerful punch and will allow you to zoom in on important activities that you just aren’t able to veer in close enough to on your own. You’ll still come away with a photo containing sharp detail and brilliant colors. The 2.0 inch LCD screen will allow you to review your shots quickly and easily, giving that added pleasure of immediate gratification, as well as provide quick work for your virtual editing area. If it stinks, then get rid of it right then and there! This camera is as simple as it gets to use because of the Mode Dial that let’s you quickly jump to the different modes and let you choose the options that are going to give you the best automatic choices. You’ll come away with a fantastic capturing of the most important events in your life. Birthday parties, sporting events, graduations, vacations, etc. will be memories that are just a snapshot away. Again if you’re not the professional photographer no worries because with this little guy the advance presets will give you the opportunity for the best pictures available without the headache. Just point and shoot man! The auto focus will deliver the shots with the detail that you would expect, using a special focus beam light that gives you a quick and accurate focus. For your more creative side there’s the manual mode, giving you definitive creative control, where you set exposure levels, ISO speeds, and white balance. One of the greatest features of this camera is the addition of the DIGIC II photo processor. Canon’s DIGIC II provides distinctly faster startup, the powerful auto-focus previously mentioned, as well as assures that each image is more vibrantly colorful. In addition, to make this an even better investment, the Canon PowerShot A460 is equipped with ISAPS Technology, which is a proprietary scene-recognition technology developed specially for digital cameras by Canon. How it works is by using an internal database of thousands of different photos – along with the speedy DIGIC II Image Processor – improves focus speed and accuracy, exposure, as well as white balance. These two technologies combined in this one little camera means that you’re getting much more for your money than you probably originally expected. Let’s not forget about those moments that you’ll want to capture on video as well. With the A460 you’ll be able to catch up to 3 minutes of high quality video clips so that you’ll have special memories forever that you can playback time and time again and even send them off to friends and family over the Internet. You want convenience, quality, and ease of use. The Canon PowerShot A460 is the epitome of those…you simply cannot go wrong with this digital camera.