Canon PowerShot A650 IS
Cameras Buying Guide
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February 3, 2008 01:06
4.0/5
I bought this the day before leaving for the Inaugral voyage and Namimng Ceremony for the Queen Victoria in England. My primary camera is the Canon SLR Digital 5D with three lenses which I love but after taking some 4500 pictures while on board for 26 days I would have loss half of those if I had not bought along the 650. I used it while on the bridge with the flash turned off and it got stujnning results and later at the Captain's table was invaluable due to size but still with 12.1 MP and 6X optical. The 5D was wonderful outside taking pictures of the ship but I was really pleased with my addition of the 650 IS. It really works beautifully and takes great pictures. The only thing close in a point and shoot is the G9 by Canon. I like the fact you can carry it with you anywhere and it works with AA Batteries you can get anywhere. -
February 8, 2008 01:28
4.0/5
I got this camera and a Canon Printer at Costco for 340 and that's really a great price for a camera of this caliber. It has 12Mpixels which is 2 more than my Canon SLR.
Picture quality sometimes competes with my Canon 40D for good lighting conditions. It has just about all the features of its big brother. I love the flip and rotate LCD for self shots. It's light and easy to hold. Love the AA replaceable battery feature rather than rechargeables. My only complaint is the placement of the Memory. You have to open the battery compartment to remove SD memory. This is awkward and may result in spilled batteries if you are not careful. Overall though it's a great little camera for a very reasonable price. -
May 5, 2008 05:29
4.0/5
Purchased the camera to replace my old Sony DSC-P200 P&S and complement my EOS XTi. Initially did not like the camera due to size and build, however the pictures are great - even when viewed at native size. Video clips are very good quality - albeit consuming large amount of memory. Overall, not a pretty camera but the best P&S quality I have seen. -
October 21, 2008 07:37
Spectacular
2.5/5
This camera should have had a pop up flash after all the time Canon had to figure out that with an adaptor and filter, adaptor and lens, there is going to be that shadow in the lower tight corner. With the weght of this camera, a neck strap was in order. It's hard to walk 2 dogs with a camera on my wrist. This camera works well in auto but I need a larger lcd screen for quick comfort. Still too difficult to see screen in the sun. There has to be a solution for that which is a Canon option and not an add on which blocks controls. I have the feeling that Canon is not listening to the basic complaints. That troubles me since there are so many fans who continue to buy and move up always in the hope that the next one have more than one or two improvements over the last. -
July 6, 2008 07:33
4.5/5
The G9 is a great camera, everybody agrees. The A650IS has the same optics, sensor and processor as the G9.
The G9 runs on an expensive, hard to find, proprietary battery. The A650IS runs on four AAs. The A650IS has a flip out LCD viewer, not a fixed one like the G9. And, if you like manual controls, you find them all on the A650IS.
The A650IS does not handle RAW files but that's not important to me. Sure, itīs not good looking like the G9. But it sells for much less than the G9. -
July 3, 2008 12:29
4.5/5
i found that tapping the snapshot button partially after a pic would cause it to go back to picture mode instead of waiting 3 seconds, but fit that into a smaller package and this would of been a truly great camera -
March 21, 2008 12:28
4.5/5
Same camera as the g9 but much cheaper and it has a flip-screen. The shot-to-shot time is about 2 seconds without a flash. CNet's report was incorrect regarding this (they said 2.8-3secs) and i confirmed this with about 10 other review sites at about 2-2-2.3 secs. -
March 4, 2008 08:59
Excellent
2.0/5
The morons that wrote the software - only let you put the DATE/TIME Stamp on the image in the "Post-Card" mode only! Who in their right mind would put such a limit on what seems to be an otherwise good camera. For the record, I am a bit of a novice, so I don't comprehend all the f-stop, focal length and other "stuff" this camera (or any) does, or why this or that needs set this way or that way in certain occasions. BUT, the time/date stamp was an important thing to me. Guess I need to just send in my old Sony "505v" in for repairs. ** The rating is lower than it should be - because of my issue with the Date/Time stamp. **
