Canon Powershot A620 Review

The compact and lightweight PowerShot A620 and A610 digital cameras feature a sleek new body design, 7.1 and 5.0 megapixel CCDs respectively, 4x optical zoom lens, Canon’s exclusive high-performance DIGIC II image processor and a 2.0-inch vari-angle color LCD screen.

The proprietary DIGIC II imaging processor enhances picture definition, vibrancy and quality, while helping increase the speed of the cameras’ startup, autofocus, shutter response, playback and image processing speed and reducing power consumption by 35% compared to the original DIGIC chip. Image transfer speed is accelerated thanks to the inclusion of a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port. The USB 2.0 port is backwards compatible (at no increased speed) with computers featuring standard USB 1.1 connections.

The Imaging Resource have just released their Canon Powershot A620 Review. Here are Dave’s thoughts-

“Canon’s PowerShot line of digital cameras have always been big favorites of IR readers, valued for their user-friendly design, excellent photo characteristics, and good build quality. The Canon PowerShot A620 is an estimable addition at the top of that line, sporting a 7-megapixel CCD and a very good quality 4x optical zoom lens. It offers everything from fully automatic to fully manual exposure control, with a healthy set of scene modes thrown in to make it easy to bring back great-looking photos from what might otherwise be challenging situations.Thanks to its high-speed DIGIC-II processing chip, it’s also very responsive, and its movie capability is impressive as well. We’ve generally found that the current crop of 7-megapixel cameras do better in terms of image noise than many of their lower-resolution cousins, and the A620 follows suit, with surprisingly good-looking images even at ISO 400. (Even 8×10″ prints on our Canon i9900 studio printer made from the A620’s ISO 400 shots were quite acceptable, a noticeably better than we’ve come to expect from consumer-level digital cameras operating at that ISO level.) Bottom line, this is just an excellent “all around” digital camera, an easy choice as a Dave’s Pick.“