Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Canon Power Shot A530

This has proved to be a very rugged camera and excellent value for money. I have taken thousands of pictures with this camera. Although I have since acquired a more sophisticated camera I can still see an ongoing need for this one or one like it.

The advantages to a small camera like this are that it is small, light and easy to use. Eventually the rubber prongs wore out. They hold the rubber panel closed. Other than that this camera has served very well and it still goes strong. Since it came out there have been improvements in the capacity of SD cards that this camera cannot take advantage of, so it is limited to taking a card with a maximum of 2 gigabytes. But since the average picture taken by it is a little over a megabyte that means it can take over a thousand pictures with one memory card.

This is the camera with carrying strap.

A closer image of the camera.

Here the camera is turned on with the lens deployed.




This is the back with the viewfinder, view screen, controls and speaker.

This shows the access door open with batteries and SD card installed.

There is a panel just to the left of the batteries. It holds another smaller battery for the date and time.

The bottom shows a thread for mounting to a tripod and a slide switch for opening the battery access door.

On the top there is an on/off button, shutter release button, zoom ring and dial for selecting various shooting modes.

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