Canon PowerShot A560

When you’re looking to buy a new digital camera, sometimes all of the bells and whistles can get overwhelming. If you’re not a professional photographer, sometimes you just want a basic camera that gets the job done without a bunch of fuss. With the Canon power shot A560 you do get a basic camera – with many bells and whistles – yet a camera that’s easy to use and doesn’t take a lifetime to figure out.

At 7.1 CCD megapixels you’re destined to have superb quality photos that will dazzle you each and every time you look at them. This means you’ll have crystal clear memories forever with images that put you right back into the moment because of the vibrant colors and high resolution detail that the A560 delivers.

As you capture your shots, and want to review them to see if you’ve gotten the picture that you were aiming for, you’ll enjoy looking at them through the large 2.5 inch LCD screen. With this high resolution screen you’ll be able to see the sharp details that bring your pictures to life.

You’ll also enjoy this incredible feature as you’re going through your menu to adjust your settings for taking the best shots you can get.

On that note, one of the incredible things about this camera is the fact that it’s extremely powerful and versatile yet very simple to learn and use. There are 14 different shooting modes that make it easier than ever to capture the perfect shot without a lot of fumbling around. Basically, just scroll down and find the shooting mode that best fits the scene you’re trying to capture, and then shoot away.

You can choose between modes like:

• Auto Mode: Where the camera basically does it all for you so it’s literally a point and shoot deal, letting you truly just focus in on your subjects rather than having to dilly dally around with different settings.
• Manual Mode: This gives you complete control where you set the exposure settings, the ISO speeds, as well as the white balance…
• Landscape Mode: This gives you the ultimate in sharpness as the camera uses a small aperture setting.
• Portrait Mode: This is a neat mode where the aperture is set to a large opening, and what this does is focus in on the subject and blur the background, which in a nutshell makes the subject really standout…
• Indoor Mode: In this setting you’ll be able to cut out the usual problem of blurring when shooting indoors where the light isn’t usually ideal…
• Night Mode: Stop getting shots that are too from taking night photos. The night mode gives you a flash with ideal light illuminating your shots and giving you a clear as day photo…
• Kids and Pets Mode: Wow, whoever came up with this mode is a genius! In this mode your camera will reduce focusing time and most importantly freeze fast moving objects (kids and pets, duh) so that you never have to let those all important children’s pictures go by…

There are also some special modes that you won’t usually find on a digital camera such as:

· Foliage Mode: letting you capture the autumn leaves and your garden with the utmost in brilliant coloring…

· Beach Mode: One of the major problems at the beach is shots with dark faces…this mode cuts down on that possibility letting you capture summer memories and vacations perfectly…

· Snow Mode: Ever notice that when you try to shoot in snowy scenes you lose faces and end up with a blue tint? Eliminate that and come away with perfect winter photos each and every year…

· Aquarium Mode: Geez…Canon has thought of everything! Aquariums are one of the toughest places to get pictures because of the flash bounce back and the overall darkness of the place…The PowerShot A560 is the best camera available for trips to the aquarium.

· Fireworks Mode: It never fails…You can never capture the Fourth of July or New Years fireworks the way that you’re actually seeing them. Now your pictures will be as bright and vibrant as the actual show itself that you’re seeing with your very own eyes…

Of course this Canon PowerShot model comes with Canon’s proprietary DIGIC III processor, which helps bring your photos to a whole new level in resolution. Just as well, the Face Detection Technology makes owning this camera a blessing. Use it by pressing down on the shutter button half way and then let the camera do its work of recognizing faces and making them as brilliant as possible – supplying the perfect light exposure, white balance, and coloring.

You’ll never have to squint to see your friends or family in a photo again. Faces will look as they naturally do to your eyes and on top of that not be possessed with red eyes…Red eye reduction is another of the many benefits to owning a digital camera with the DIGIC III processor.

Basically, you can’t go wrong with a convenient, sleek camera like the A560 that packs such power. You’ll be hard pressed to find a camera at this price range that’s as beneficial to have as the Canon PowerShot A560.