Canon PowerShot A430
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Canon's A430 aims for the novice crowd with a simple point-and-shoot philosophy. The A430 is a 4 megapixel camera for entry-level users and aside from the ease of use, there's not a lot to go crazy over. The sensor is pretty small for today's standards, and the body, while sleek, isn't as flashy as Canon's exciting SD line. Even for novice or casual users, the A430 is a camera you'll probably outgrow fairly quickly, and soon enough you'll be itching to take those training wheels off and graduate to a better model. Skip the middleman and choose a camera you can grow with.
Specifications
- 4 megapixels
- 4 optical zoom / 3.6x optical zoom
- auto focus
- auto and manual exposure
- ISO 64-400
- JPEG file format
- movie mode w/sound
- 2 AA batteries
- 1.8 inch LCD
- SD/MMC card storage (16MB included)
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Canon PowerShot A430 Reviews
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Canon PowerShot A430 Reviews by Digital Camera-HQ Users
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It's a really good quality camera that takes great photos and is simple, compact and easy to use. Thankyou Canon!
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It's really the value for the money, Very good picture quality, Clear and Accurate colors, New fancy options like auto rotate image on the LCD by only rotating the camera in your hand and also the ability to change the camera shutter sound and other sounds and also the start up image, the flash sensor is very sensitive even for the reflection (Exp: If you try to shoot a white target the flash may not light at all if the room light is enough, But If you shoot a dark item the flash must light in order to gain each details of the shooted item with no fear of producing an image with flash reflection), So easy to connect to the computer with Win XP OS (The computer deal with camera through the standard USB cable as a storage device to write on or read from it's memory card even without installing the camera SW), I see also see a WIDE PIC mode in camera menu but I didn't test it yet.
My advice to any one is to buy this camera, It's a very good one for your budget too. (I Bought it for only $190) at 12 Dec 2006 to be my great camera for the new year 2007 :)
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A good digital camera and easy to use software quite impressive in fact,but I was expecting a better quality from Canon.I was using a 2 meg pix
Fugifilm camera 2800Z and have put one against the other and frankly,Fuji is clearer than Canon in my opinion .
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I really enjoy my Canon A430. It takes a great picture both indoors and outside. Inside pictures come out clear without using the flash. Has many mode setting which help the shooter get a good picture. I think it's a great camera.
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its good for beginners, but it already fulfilling than nothing....
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The camera takes good 4 mg pictures and the equivalent zoom of about 140 mm is good. However, canon has a long way to go before it will be as good as a $100.00 point and shoot film camera. Maybe if you buy the high end $800.00 digital things would get better. However, the ease of putting pictures on the computer and viewing them instantly is really nice. Again, canon needs to go back to the drawing board if it wants to match the ease of use of a film point and shoot. For sure the quality of the 4 mp cannot match today's film.
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I took the camara out of the box bought re chargable batteries and a 512 MB card. I have not stopped taking shots. Great quality. EASY to use. I finally read the manual. Great camera for carrying around or the main camera. LCD view is great WYSIWYG.
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the same as above
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Excellent point and shoot for a novice that requires few features. Good picture quality. Average shooting at night w/good flash range. Long flash recycle time. Highly recommended.
Canon PowerShot A430 Comments & Questions (write your own!)
I'm on the verge of leaving for vacation, and really need to buy a digital camera before I go. Since I'm not much of a photographer, all I really need is something that takes decent pictures that I can email to my friends, and that won't fall apart after a short time, but also doesn't cost an arm and a leg. I was checking out the Nikon L4 (on sale right now from Wolf Camera) and the Canon a430. Any recommendations?
Since its main function will be to take pictures that I can email, I need to be able to take decent pictures that are of small enough size to send. Do all digital cameras come with a low and high resolution mode these days, or do you have to specifically get a camera with one or the other or both?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Marie
Probably let's separate the emailing part from the camera part. There's some totally cool and free software that Google makes, called Picasa, that is very easy to use and should make things like emailing pictures super-easy. It knows how to make picture that might be too big to email the right size and any of the other annoying details -- it's got a built in tool just for this. Get it at picasa.google.com/download/...
While all cameras have always come with the ability to switch between low, medium and high resolutions, there's hardly any reason these days to use anything but high resolution. Take the picture in high-res, and let Picasa size it for whatever you want. Who knows, maybe you'll love one of your pictures and want to get it printed as an 8x10 where you would want the high resolution.
So that was the inexpensive part!
It sounds like you want a reasonable and easy to use camera without paying a lot. The choices you made seem like they are right on: Nikon L4 digitalcamera-hq.com/digita... and Canon A430 digitalcamera-hq.com/digita... are both aimed at simple uses. Both are well rated, if somewhat boring cameras. You might look at the Kodak C533 (digitalcamera-hq.com/digita... also, which is in the same price range. Kodak has focused on making cameras that real people can actually use, more so than Canon and probably Nikon.
Have a great vacation!
Are you sure you need 5MP? Do you regularly make 8x10's or bigger? Save a few buck on mo-megapixels and get mo-zoom instead. Zoom rocks. Check out the Canon A430, for example: digitalcamera-hq.com/digita...
Tom
walmart.com/catalog/search-...
it is wal-mart.com and it has some really good cameras on budget! i am thinking about buying one from there. Good luck =D!
thanks.
dnb
As my co-workers will attest, I am a raging environmentalist, so I am glad to hear that Canon is doing the right thing (although I suspect that in most cases they end up in a landfill anyway and get replaced with a refurb model).
But perhaps they salvage parts, and I am glad to know this and will try not to lead others astray :-)
Tom
Good luck-
Or you can use the AV port to hook your camera directly up to a TV via rca port (the red, white, yellow plugs) and play them on the TV screen. If you take your pictures at a high quality resolution and full MP they will look nice even on big screens.
Or simply on your camera LCD in play mode.
You can buy accessories for a Sony T10 ( digitalcamera-hq.com/digita... ) directly on the manufacturer's website ( sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERS... ). They even have a Ring Light ( sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERS... ) for macro-photography (3.25" in Macro mode). The camera does not look to be compatible with a docking station, but does come with A/V USB connector cables for easy transfer.
Andrew
I noticed that you haven't marked any replies as the "best answer." Are you still looking for a reply? If so, I recommend you re-submit it on <a href="digitalcamera-hq.com"&... so it will have a better chance of being noticed. These days it looks like most questions are being answered within a few days. Good luck!
Andrew
I noticed you haven't marked a response as "Best Answer" yet. Are you still looking for help? If so, I recommend re-submitting your question at digitalcamera-hq.com so it has a better chance of being noticed. Lately it looks like questions are being answered within one or two days. Good luck!
You can also review our low-priced cameras listed <a href="digitalcamera-hq.com/digita...
Andrew
Look for something that can take close-up photos and has a good macro feature so that you can get good details. You also won't need a lot of megapixels- two or three megapixels will do just fine for posting images online. The Canon Powershot A430 ( digitalcamera-hq.com/digita... ) might do the trick. Canon Powershots have pretty good macros and can capture detail reasonably well without being super expensive.
You can zoom your camera by pressing up on the circular button set on the back right of the camera. Make sure your camera is set to take the photo when you use this function as well.
Andrew
santosh
Also, make sure you using the correct rechargeable batteries. There are Nicd, and there are NiMH kinds. And make sure your batteries are "seated" properly when charging.
With that in mind, some people say that keeping the batteries warm (for example, carrying spare sets in a pouch close to your body) will allow you to take photos in cold temps without loss of the camera. So carry a few sets of batteries and keep the camera inside your coat at all times, and you should be OK.
An insulated pouch for the camera will also help, as sometimes moving parts like lenses and shutters can stick in the cold. So keep it all as warm as possible.
One more thing- when coming in from freezing temps to the warm indoors, condensation can form and ruin the lens of the camera. So put the camera in a ziplock bag, squeeze all the air out, and then bring it inside. This way condensation will form on the bag and keep the camera and its lens dry during the temperature change.
Thanks again, Helm
This camera will take 3 minutes of video at 15 fps. The size of your memory card dictate how many of these videos you can take. Good luck.
Andrew
It is indeed possible, but converting different kinds of video is often a long and confusing process. There's a lot of information out there, and a lot of misinformation, too. Lots of shareware programs that promise a lot before they take your $20 and then end up not working.
However! This message board thread ( photography-on-the.net/foru... ) indicates that it can be done relatively easily using Nero Burning ROM (a popular CD/DVD burning program) and also indicates that there are many other reliable commercial programs that will do it. Have a look.
As the thread indicates, <a href="videohelp.com/">vid... is also an invaluable resource for everything related to video conversion. Good luck!
The first thing to do is to take the batteries out of the camera and let it sit for a few minutes, then try putting them back in. It might just need that to reset and then it'll be fine. If not, go to that website I mentioned above (www.e18error.com) and try some of those solutions, since many of them will work for lens errors. But be careful before you do anything too extensive- I don't know what camera you have, but if it's new/ still under warranty you may want to just take it back rather than try any home solutions that could void your return policy.
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By the way, don't know Justin, but he did a very nice job showing how to open the camera case and clean out the grit and sand from the camera lens drive gear. Make sure you send him an email to thank him :)
Thanks Justin !
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2 or 10 seconds, the choice is yours.
The battery life depends on what type of batteries you're using. I'd definitely recommend picking up NiMH rechargeables- you'll get about 350-400 shots out of a single charge. Regular non-rechargeable batteries will give you much less shooting time and end up costing you way more as you'll blow through them pretty quickly. That isn't a flaw in this camera, it's that way with any cam that runs on AA batteries.
Sometimes... can be found for less.
Some sony are good for this... but I would tell you to buy a Nikon L series. Cheap, great... nice features... and rechargable AA batteries. Your kid, or even you... don't need more than this.
Hope to be helpful,
Alan Schamber.
I think you can indeed get a good camera for very close to this price, especially for an eight-year old. Basically what you want is something fairly durable and easy to use that takes good photos, with rechargeable batteries. You said that a non-blur feature would be nice, but my thought is that you may have to pass on that feature simply because it's a pretty new thing in cameras (it's called Image Stabilization), so getting a camera that has it means that you're automatically buying something recent, and thus more expensive.
Here's my suggestion though. I'd buy one of the early Canon A-series if I were you. As I said, they're earlier models, so the operation may be a little slower and you won't have an anti-blur, but they will be cheap and they will take GREAT photos (I refuse to give mine up, even though I own lots of 'better' cameras now) and they are durable, and super easy to use.
Now, they do use AA batteries- but you can buy rechargeable NiMH AA batteries, along with a charger, for about twenty bucks. Walmart has them. And they will last you for a long, long time- I actually prefer AA rechargeables because they're so cheap in the first place, and they've worked great for me.
The A430 ( digitalcamera-hq.com/digita... ), I think, is still available new, as are the A530 ( digitalcamera-hq.com/digita... ) and A540 ( digitalcamera-hq.com/digita... ).
I'd also recommend, since those are going above your budget, checking Amazon for some of the other models that are no longer available new. The camera I own, the A85, is available used through Amazon for $99 and would be a great choice:
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Let me know if that helps at all!
BTW - If you're happy with the answer you received, you can simply click on "Mark for best answer" bubble and it will place the question in the "Answered" category for all to see. Thanks for posting it and Good luck!
Another tip is to go to Canon's website ( usa.canon.com/consumer/cont... ) and look for firmware updates. Download and install them.
Also, make sure you have fresh high capacity (mAh) batteries in it. Often undercharged or depleted batteries can easily affect camera performance.
However, it only takes 4MP pictures and that means little in the way of enlargement capability. But to go with SONY, you'd have to change memory cards and pay more for a similar camera. Stay in the family and go with something like the Canon SD880.
Using several cards, rather than one large one gives you insurance. Any memory card can fail or become corrupted. And when you're on vacation the last thing you want is to lose the opportunity to take pictures until you can recover that media card with a software utility. If your card goes bad, swapping another one for it at that moment is of advantage so you can keep taking pics. Then, later when you're in front of your PC, you can use a utility like "F-Recovery" ( filerecoverytools.com/produ... ) to get back your pictures and recover your card.
No need to lose the moment because you relied on one card one when several can solve that problem. At the very least, you want to get more than one of whatever size you settle on.
One last thing. Cards have different speeds. The faster a card is, the quicker it'll save the photo and cycle to be ready for another shot. In the end, your camera is only going to be as fast as it's slowest link in the chain. So check for speed when you purchase a card.
As for size, being that it is compatible with SDHC, you can go as high as you want. Although for above 8GB, you may need a firmware update, but I rather doubt it.