Canon Powershot A70 - Any Good?

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My daughter wants a digital camera for her birthday and I have seen that
Argos are selling the Canon Powershot A70 for £149.99 reduced from £299.99.
It would probably just be used for the usual holiday/party snaps. Would this
camera be a good buy? I suspect it may be an outdated model, in which case
can anyone recommend a more recent camera for about the same price. It would
need to be a small pocket sized model, ideally with say a 3x optical zoom,
min 2 megapixels and preferably with a protective cover to slide in front to
protect the lens (it would probably be rattling around in her handbag with
all the other junk girls keep in there).
Thanks
Nodge

 

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Target in the U.S. has the canon A-75 (3.2 meg pix) on sale for
$240.00. Also look at the Casio QV-R51 its about half the size and a
5.1 meg pix camera, with excellant reviews on sale at Circut City for
$289.00.

Yikes


On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 23:31:16 GMT, "Nodge"
<john.jopp@nnospambigfoot.com> wrote:

>My daughter wants a digital camera for her birthday and I have seen that
>Argos are selling the Canon Powershot A70 for £149.99 reduced from £299.99.
>It would probably just be used for the usual holiday/party snaps. Would this
>camera be a good buy? I suspect it may be an outdated model, in which case
>can anyone recommend a more recent camera for about the same price. It would
>need to be a small pocket sized model, ideally with say a 3x optical zoom,
>min 2 megapixels and preferably with a protective cover to slide in front to
>protect the lens (it would probably be rattling around in her handbag with
>all the other junk girls keep in there).
>Thanks
>Nodge
>

 

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After a bit more research, I'm thinking now that the Konica Minolta Dimage
X31 at £135 might be a better bet. What do you think?
Nodge

 

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My favorite websites for camera reviews are, in order, www.dcresource.com,
www.steves-digicams.com, and www.dpreview.com. Dpreview also has a good
forums section. Anyways, from the use you describe it's going to get (thrown
into a girly girl's handbag and used for pictures, not photographs), I think
the X31 fits the job description much better than the canon.
Richard
"Nodge" <john.jopp@nnospambigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> After a bit more research, I'm thinking now that the Konica Minolta Dimage
> X31 at £135 might be a better bet. What do you think?
> Nodge
>
>

 

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"Nodge" <john.jopp@nnospambigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> My daughter wants a digital camera for her birthday and I have seen that
> Argos are selling the Canon Powershot A70 for £149.99 reduced from
£299.99.
> It would probably just be used for the usual holiday/party snaps. Would
this
> camera be a good buy? I suspect it may be an outdated model, in which case
> can anyone recommend a more recent camera for about the same price. It
would
> need to be a small pocket sized model, ideally with say a 3x optical zoom,
> min 2 megapixels and preferably with a protective cover to slide in front
to
> protect the lens (it would probably be rattling around in her handbag with
> all the other junk girls keep in there).
> Thanks
> Nodge
>

Take the A75, slightly better than the A70 but both very good cams at very
good prices.

Eddie

 

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Nodge wrote:

> My daughter wants a digital camera for her birthday and I have seen that
> Argos are selling the Canon Powershot A70 for £149.99 reduced from £299.99.
> It would probably just be used for the usual holiday/party snaps. Would this
> camera be a good buy? I suspect it may be an outdated model, in which case
> can anyone recommend a more recent camera for about the same price. It would
> need to be a small pocket sized model, ideally with say a 3x optical zoom,
> min 2 megapixels and preferably with a protective cover to slide in front to
> protect the lens (it would probably be rattling around in her handbag with
> all the other junk girls keep in there).
> Thanks
> Nodge
>
>
the a 70 takes bloody good daylight pictures, very very sharp and rich
in colour, easy point and shoot mode as well
and it is built to last