I bought my first digital camera about 9 months ago, and it was a Canon A610. So I don’t have any other digital cameras to compare it with, but I have done a lot of film photography over the years. I’m very happy with it, and find it does pretty well everything that I want.
I’ve heard that with some cameras battery life is a problem, but with the A610 you can take at least 200 pictures with the same batteries. (And it takes 4 AA cells, so if your camera goes dead on the road, it’s easy to get replacements).
When I bought it, I got a 1 GB SD card for memory, which holds at least 600 pictures, but I recently bought a cheap 2 GB SD card on eBay, and the camera tels me that will hold 1300 pictures. It’s a big change from having to change film every 36 pictures or so. (Of course, there’s a downside: I’ve saved the pictures onto my computer, then backd them up onto CDs – and so far I have 5 CDs full of pictures from the camera! That’s more than 1500 pictures, plus a few short videos taken on the camera.)
Thought I mentioend the issue in this thread, but I guess it was another one.
I accidentally immersed my Olympus C-2040 in Lake Superior.
Olympus will fix it for a resonable price (114, including shipping it back to me) but I thought I would look aroiund to see if I want to put that towards a new camera instead.
Does anyone know if the Canon will remember resolution settings when it is turned on off? The Olympus defaulted to “HQ” whereas I preferred “SQ1 (high quality)”. It would remember “hih quality” but not SQ1, so I had to set it each time I turned it on.
Yes, it will. Just make sure you turn off “revert to factory settings” from the main menu.
BTW, Canon just announced their new line of A-series cameras today. Some are pretty sweet, but 10MP is pretty much overkill for most of us normal folks. It seems like everyone is going to 10 MP for no apparent reason.