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| Brand: Canon
Category: Photography
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $110.95
You Save: $39.04 (26%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  295 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Includes Software: Yes
Optical Zoom: 4
Digital Zoom: 4
Connectivity: AV
Display Size: 2.5
Battery: aa size alkoline
Maximum Focal Length: 23.2
Minimum Focal Length: 5.8
Maximum Resolution: 8
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 3.7 x 1.6 x 2.5
MPN: A590IS
Model: A590IS
UPC: 013803089325
EAN: 0013803089325
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Nice Camera for More Professional Use - Not Necessarily Personal Use July 9, 2008
25 out of 42 found this review helpful
When it came time to buy a digital camera I wavered between the Cannon and the Sony CyberShot. I bought the Cannon for three reasons:
1. more megapixals
2. 4x zoom
3. price was right
And make no mistake, this is a nice camera. BUT...for what I was wanting, just a basic, personal use camera, it's not ideal. It has a lot of nice features on it that I will never use. It's not the easiest camera to figure out and use. The dials/menus take some studying.
My mother bought the Sony Cybershot and after seeing her camera, I wish that I had too.
If you are looking for just a good basic camera, shy away from this model. Don't get pulled in by the extra features...unless you have some training in photography and know how to use the manual settings, most of the extra features you won't use. And the basic features are not as "user friendly" as you would expect.
 Canon Powershot A590IS May 4, 2008
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
This is an excellent camera for the money! It is small enough to carry in a pocket but still large enough to feel good and have a viewfinder so that you can turn the viewing screen off to save the battery. We have taken several hundred photographs so far and are still on the first set of batteries. The photos are excellent quality and the camera is easy to use but sophisticated enough to allow a wide variety of individual priority's such as aperture or timing. It also has the image stabilizer so that unfamiliar people can take photos without blurring them. I would buy it again without hesitation.
 Great point and shoot April 11, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I bought the A590 as our first digital camera. We just came back from a trip to England where we took more than 300 pictures. We haven't printed them yet, but they look great on our computer. We even took some action shots during a soccer/football match, and most of those look great also. We took all our shots in the auto mode.
When we were considering buying this camera, it was a bit confusing to read all the reviews about the more exotic features of this camera. I suppose it's nice to have all those features available on this camera, but I'm not sure those features are relevant to someone like me who is simply looking for a good "point and shoot" camera. I'm glad I bought the A590, and would recommend it to my friends.
Big Disappointment June 9, 2008
14 out of 25 found this review helpful
I did a fair amount of homework before buying the Canon Power Shot A590 IS with face recognition technology and image stabilization. Although it received many good reviews, my experience with the camera was very disappointing. Thw first big surprise was that although this is labeled a point and shoot digital camera, it has many features that allow an experienced photographer to modify the settings and make custom modifications. I'm not an experienced photographer and was easily overwhelmed by the choices, especially since the instruction manual jumped right in discussing these things before it even explained the basics of how the camera worked. The book didn't get to the basics until page 40! I have 2 other digital cameras that I've used for several years so I am familiar with how many digital cameras are set up----not that this helped. This model Canon represents some significant design changes in digital cameras which I wasn't prepared for. To make things worse, the instruction manual in many cases was incomplete or inaccurate. I quickly became best friends with Canon's technical support department just to learn how to use the camera! Although the tech reps were pleasant and tried to be helpful, sometimes they didn't know the whole story either. I also had problems with the software that comes with the camera for downloading pictures to my computer and editing them. When I first installed it, it worked fine. Then everytime I used it something went wrong and I had to call tech support for assistance. The problem would get resolved only to reappear a few days later and the prior solution wouldn't work any more. Even the tech reps couldn't explain why While the camera worked OK most of the time, it didn't function correctly all of the time which was really frustrating. Also the picture quality was inconsistent. Some pictures came out good, others (taken the same way) were lousy. I had so many problems with both the camera and software, even though they were brand new, I came to the conclusion that maybe I got a defective model so I returned it. After everything the camera put me through, I didn't want to waste my time trying another one so I am looking for a different digital camera to replace my older ones. If you are considering buying this camera, I wish you luck. You'll need it!
Nice, But Not What It Should Be June 9, 2008
14 out of 23 found this review helpful
I have a Canon A570, it has always turned out great results, very consistant, very very pleased with it. Highly recommend it,I used to be into 35mm photography for years ran around all over with a bag full of lenses, becoming a senior citizen changed all that, so, the Canon A 570 arrived, does a beautiful job, allows me to fool around somewhat.
My wife saw a 590, loved it, we bought it, well, its a beautiful thing, from the start up, the photos were not as good as the 570, in fact, just not that good, period. We were unhappy with it and returned it, I firmly believe the 590 we received was defective, yeah, even Canon goofs,, photos were not clear, flash did not work right, lens was bad, other than that it was great, have seen tourists here in Manhattan using the 590, spoke with them, saw their results, gorgeous, soooooooooo,I think we may reorder it from Amazon for my wife, firmly convinced I got one that slipped through, Canon is a great company, but we all goof occassionly
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