Canon PowerShot A650IS 12.1MP Digital Camera with 6x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom


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Features:
  • 12.1-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality poster-size prints
  • 6x image-stabilized optical zoom; 2.5-inch vari-angle LCD display
  • Face Detection technology and in-camera red-eye fix
  • 21 shooting modes, including 9 special scene modes; Print/Share button
  • Powered by 4 AA-size batteries (4 alkaline batteries included); stores images on SD memory cards (32MB memory card included)

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Canon PowerShot A650IS 12.1MP Digital Camera with 6x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom
Reviews:

starsWow! Absolutely worth the price. Macro shots to 1cm!
I always had Sony CyberShots but when cameras 12MP left, I wanted better capacities of close-up that Sony offered (without optional objective AND adaptor of objective); I have rare businesses of book and antiquities and must take much projectiles of close-up. This Gun 650is is absolutely incredible for close-ups, being focused with less with 1cm - yes, a CENTIMETRE! Sony came not more narrowly than 10cm. And the quality of these macro projectiles is incredible as well. Another finished Sony advantage is the software of Gun, which enables me to actuate the remote camera, starting from my keyboard, adjusting situations crafty ones of lighting/exposure by seeing them on my large monitor, not the screen of liquid crystal display on the camera (although i.e., in fact, pretty large; also, the screen of flick is kind of expenses as well). If you do many indoor/studio tie, I recommend the adaptor to A.C. ACK600; you will spend much more for Duracell aa that the cost of the adaptor. In conclusion, the provision of the function of the Guns is large as well: easy to employ, in spite of the high number of adjustments available. Since the liquid crystal display is so large, it is easy to see all arrangements and icons, and it is easy to remember the procedures of adjustment. In the space of a few hours, I can have hundred different articles to require dozen adjustments; I was fortunately astonished to see at which easy point it was to do all this with A650; light years in front of the cameras of Sony which I had.


starsAWESOME
Great Camera. I love it. This is my first Canon. I had a Kodak Easy Share before. I have two young children and it keeps up with all the moving that they do. Its very very easy to use as well!


starsI am satisfied!!!
Nice Canon camera, right out of the box it took great pics in auto mode. I have not used the advanced manual modes yet, but so far great camera.
12mp create big size JPEG files, I use the 8MP option. I see that this camera has a bigger sensor size as compared to other models and other manufacturers, thats why I bought it.





starsDoes what it's made to do... and does it well!
I bought this camera for my wife for his birthday last week. I carried it to New York to go to make shopping for his birthday and wanted a large camera of growth of the point N which would take large the PEAKS and the video/audio clearly. I will be short since so many others wrote in detail about this marvellous camera. The images are incredibly clear, the buzz, however only large 6x optical, work. The stabilization of image is awsome. I do not have any complaint about this camera. A thing that I would like to note, the flick out of the perfect addition of screen of liquid crystal display... with an already fantastic device! the liquid crystal display will turn to all the angle and marks taking to PEAKS to various angles a breeze! im motionless learning this thing and me bevel waiting to be able to see the full capacity! If the youre thinking of obtaining thats of a camera accessible and catches large PEAKS, advance and buy a this Gun and Nikon is the best thus do not waste your money on any other mark. Some gave this device that of the 4 hold the first role the estimate, stating the minor, and I want to say very minor, the retreats which are most of the time compared to DSLRs (that I think is completely stupid... does not compare agreements to you of Honda to the common people of BMWs of 7 series..., uses your heads here!) If your budget is in range $300, this camera is your ticket. if you are a hard fanatic of matrix with an eye of falcon and require for perfection in large copies, then should look at DSLRs to you, not growths of point N Être that this is a growth of point N, and it makes all it one it cense that to make so much well, im judging it compared to other large cameras of growth of point N, and I give it of the 5 hold the first role. Oh and me forgot to be added, the life of battery on this camera is large once compared up to now with my samsung. older than the samsungs have a representative to last only 1 full active day to take the photograph. Its étée one week, and this thing always gives a kick! And another love of love of love of thing I, that it does not light... any waiting immediately. You push the button of power, the logo of gun can show for half of in the second place, (yew which you flicker the lack of youll it, I swear) and immediately youre ready to take photographs. Buy-the and appreciate!


starsfirst time camera owner
I like definatly this camera of large very good devices by fate of battery life and I am excited to employ them all!


starsI love this camera!
This camera is easy to use and takes wonderful pictures! My son-in-law, who knows a lot about cameras, says it is a very good and powerful camera. My pictures turn out so clear and the colors are beautiful. It takes 4 AA batteries, which allows it to be ready for the next flash shot more quickly than a camera with only 2 AA batteries. It's a little bigger and bulkier than what I was used to but I love this camera!


starsAlmost Ideal
My family has several A-series Canons up to the A75. Although all still work, I wanted better resolution via more pixels and a sharper lens, a longer zoom lens, better exposure lattitude, and a stabilized image. The A650 provided all this and more. If you have an older A-series, the controls and features are very similar so its easy to adapt to this new model. I got great 8x10 prints from the older 3 mp cameras, with no cropping. The 12 mp allows you to crop extensively and still get a decent print. The image stablity system remains a phenominal mystery to me. I can hand hold shots at full zoom to about 1/60th sec. with little to no blur. For daylight shooting I don't need to go higher than 200 ISO, beyond which image degradation becomes more than I care for. Also, easy contrast management, two click exposure compensation, histogram review, and AA batteries make this a satisfying camera. Why not 5 stars ? I'd still like to see auto exposure bracketing, a better manual focus (split image ?) remote control shutter release option, and a still larger ccd sensor with more pixels (gotta keep pushing those camera manufactures to the next level).



starsGreat Camera, Great Photos
This is by far the best "point-and-shoot" that I've ever purchased. Canon has done a great job incorperating manual operation, allowing tons of creative freedom.

For me, this camera was the perfect vacation solution. Now I can still get amazing pictures, without lugging around my Canon EOS.

You probably don't need 12 MP on a camera like this, but this camera gives you the option of changing the file size, so I'm using it as an 8 MP.

This product is well worth the money, you will not regret your purchase.


starsVerrry happy!
I cannot really speak the technical jargon, but I really like it. It will not adapt a pocket of shirt. It is little larger because this large kind of piece to cover outside and its the heaviest, but it is a nice camera which takes large the pix. It takes batteries of aa, which is an aubaine when your power disappears and you draw some share the pix. You can buy the aas anywhere. You can also buy the refillable ones of aa if you want. It has a flick nice out of screen of LED too. It is simple to take photographs or films with. The optical buzz 6X with the range of the objective really lets to you rise narrowly and personnel with this camera. I finish by always the knowledge, but I like it. One strongly recommended to him to me. It is compact, just not as compact as some others. It is little larger than 5 the Minolta Pixel than I improved of. Although not a part of the package shown here, mine came with a printer from photograph which you do not have need to hang to a PC, thus one is available. This camera will also accept a standard deviation of 2 gigs, that some cameras not, because I include/understand it.


starsCanon's Best A Seiries
In value the levelling obtain to him the large camera that I 7 years old I am obtained for chrismas thus hope that you appreciate it


starsI'm in Heaven
Before I received this camera I was using an HP M22, which is a 4MP with 3x digital zoom. It was a great little camera for a digital beginner, but using the A650 is like I died and went to heaven. The shots are so clear - no grain! It's like I have my old Canon AE-1 back. When you take shots inside there is little, if any, red-eye...and if there is, the computer program takes it away without any problem. This camera is so "flexible". If you want to point and shoot you can, but if you are into doing it the old way you can use the manual mode! I absolutely love this camera!!


starsI like it
I employed A710IS before I bought A650. A650 is really cumbersome camera. It heavy and large is compared with A710. You will not carry it in your pocket. A larger probe means broader objective to carry out the same range of buzz as in A710. Moreover it has 4 batteries of aa instead of 2 in A710. A larger probe but more Pixel thus a noise is just more or less as in A710: ISO200 is the maximum which I can accept. Thanks to the stabilization of image which I draw with ISO80 more of time. IS work perfectly. The quality of posting is really good. Of pivot of screen assistances really. The screen is not protected well thus you must turn the screen to the top on the side to the bottom each time you stop the camera. The quality of photograph is good with great Extrafins arrangements of OIN 100. I have an impression which the objective is better than the objective of A710' S. The camera is fast. But I do not like the instantaneous time of load and the speed of development automatic compared with SLR. Of 4 batteries of aa the flash charges more quickly than in A710. The handle is not very comfortable for a so heavy camera but I became accustomed with him. I did not like materials and did not establish quality: my camera has a small slit between two parts of body. I really do not worry. I do not like the weak flash. I do not like the new behavior of orders (compared with A710). For example, to activate the flash you had to press on the instantaneous button only one time on A710, but on A650 tighten initially opens just the choice of instantaneous mode jump to the top the window. And in the second place the pressure changes the current mode. Doesn't the camera support the resolution of the video 1024x768. Pourquoi have the screen of pivot if you need always separate visual camera? I would have changed the devoted button of OIN with the synchro slow which is provided by the principal menu only. On the whole, I like this camera.


starsLayman's review
I won't go into any technical specs about this camera, previous reviewers who are far more knowledgeable have already done this.

I upgraded to this camera from a simple Nikon Coolpix, as I wanted a few more options and better picture quality and a little more performance than the basic coolpix could offer. I also didn't want to go all the way up to a bulky Digital SLR either. This camera bridges the gap between a basic camera and one for advanced users.

It's not as big/bulky as the SLR's like the rebel but it isn't a shirt pocket camera like the Elph's either.

It has plenty of features to allow you to learn how to take photo's, allowing you to experiment with some of the more manual functions and not always rely on using the old point and shoot "auto" function but for those times you need to, that option is still there to fall back on.

The photo quality is excellent and at 12.0MP you get plenty of room to crop your photo's. I would recommend a larger memory card as the one you get with it isn't good for much of anything.

This camera is also compatible with the newer SDHC cards and I put in one of the 8Gb cards whis has plenty of storage for photo's and some decent length Mpeg's.

It takes 4AA batteries but is not as much of a battery hog as I had thought it would be. The rechargeables are great to have but the new AA lithiums do last quite well under heavy use.

Another nice feature, if you are low on power you can turn off the screen (which is a beefy 2.5" variable angle by the way) and use the viewfinder...a feature other camera's have started to leave out.

With some of the other whistles and bells, face detection, Image stabilization and a 6X zoom and this is a solid purchase for the price.

All that and its still very user friendly....




starsGreat Camera with tons of features for an excellent price !
All previous reviewers have done a fantastic job so I won't bore you with the same. All I can say is that I bought it about two weeks ago, took it to a trip to Southern California and took over 500 pix and 4/5 flix using a 4GB and a 1GB SD card.

The outdoor pix are absolutely phenomenal, indoor ones with out using flash are too noisy and the ones with flash using Auto are extra ordinarily yellow, but I am too new to it to play with the settings. Plus this is my first Canon Digicam so I am not familiar with the menus and settings that much.

Overall the pix are great, size & weight is OK, I love the swivel LCD screen (a must have for me, coming from Nikon CP4500) 6X zoom is much better than generic 3X. I wish it were a little faster. I found it to be a bit slow to start and in between shots.



starsSix Mega-Pixels better than Twelve
After several weeks and 500 photographs this seems a technically advanced replacement of fine for A80 of confidence which finally died. With four batteries and a flick out of the screen higher-resolution I much prefers it in somewhat similar A710 (now A720) which is in my family. All in generally agreeing with all the positive things and details extended in the reviews written before Thanksgiving, one can wish what the Gun chose not to do. A smaller objective is not the great reason for which the A650 images are not until the quality of a large numerical SLR. The people of camera know that a problem is the race to have very high accounts of Pixel on the probe of image which replaced film. The 12.1MP ahead in publicity. The same probe classified with MP only 6 instead of 12 would have like consequence of better images. With little Pixel you obtain a bigger size of cells for each Pixel. A larger cell will gather a weaker light. That means stronger signal, less noise, when you draw in the moderate light. Less need for the camera to the sleeping bag pointed details of the objective to hide the spots of the noise. If you are comfortable with the major part of this camera which hardly adapts in the trousers a pocket, because I is, then it is a very good choice. However I bought it with a colour of regret with what could have been. I could have had better less conspicuous images of a camera with Spéc.. So more us regret to feel your next camera can have Pixel little and take better photographs.


starsWOW Canon
I upgraded from a Canon A80 for my recent vacation... and this camera is awesome. Very simple to use with excellent features and outstanding pictures. The image stabilizer makes an obvious difference/improvement. Go Canon!


starsBeautiful Pictures, but know what you are buying
The Gun a650 takes the photographs beutiful. I have a raised end, a numerical SLR as well, and while I can note differences with larger copies, the quality of image is not on line that far. I would say that the difference is more due to the objectives than the cameras. It is not that the objective in the a650 is bad - right this I bought the expensive objectives for the SLR. While the price of the a650 can be intimidating for point-and-draw, want the note that the a650 is internally identical to the G9 Gun, which cost $100 more and cannot use batteries of aa. An attention with the note, however, is that this camera is heavy and large. It weighs close of book with batteries and will not adapt in you the pocket. Before you buy, disappear the catch the camera. I bought almost the sd950 for his smaller size, but decided that I could not transmit by relay only on the batteries rechargible, which is ironic considering my reechargibles uses of SLR only and I never had problems.


starsDoes many things well
I wanted the liquid crystal display of tilt/swivel of A640 but knew that the model must be improved soon. I waited, and as soon as this A650 left, I bought it. My recent experiment is most of the time with Nikon D50 SLR (and before that, much of generations of SLRs film). This purchase is our "small" camera, less importunate than large black Nikon, easier with packing on an occasional walk, less obvious in a social occasion, easier to make smuggling in places where photography "is not authorized." A650 exceeded my hopes of many manners. Looking at their images the full resolution relating to a gauged monitor, there are only light differences between Nikon and A650: mainly, A650 betrays light a frangeage blue details contrasted in the extreme edges of the reinforcement. This most probably betrays the smaller and cheaper design of objective (the objective on Nikon cost more than the A60 camera!). Except this straw, only extreme enlarging of apparent lower part, I do not see any difference in acuity, saturation, or the exactitude of color. Although it is small beside a SLR with the objective of buzz, A650 is a bulky handle compared with the tiny point-and-gunners of, for example, Panasonic. It will not adapt in a pocket of shirt unless you wear the shirt of a logger, but it is enough small to enter the pocket of hip of my Levi 501' S, or the pocket of estafilade of a windbreaker. A part of volume is because it uses the batteries 4xAA instead of certain small, of patent rights battery. It is more enormous in my sight: the batteries are available everywhere, and I have already a charger and a refillable box of aas. The menus are clear. The orders are like other models of Powershot de Canon, thus would be well-known to the owners of Gun. Come from a different mark, I had to obtain used with the various buttons, which was not difficult, a testimony with the significant design of the Gun. The majority of the common options are provided by a simple button "overall FUNCTIONAL" which jumps to the top a laconic menu on the liquid crystal display. All the principal actions are ready to give: to remove the most recent, awkward image with some cameras, is fast and easy; placing the hearth of Macro/Normal/Manual, or the On/Auto/Off flash, is also fast. The slope, liquid crystal display swivelling is a large device! You can store it face-in, thus it will not obtain not striped in a pocket or a glove compartment. You can turn it to completely around compose an image of yourself. You can turn it below face thus you can judge the camera high above your head and compose a projectile above a crowd, or thus turn it receiving you can hold the camera on your side and take projectiles of discretion descending the street. The liquid crystal display is luminous, but one day sunny you must calm the shade it for the lira. This camera does even it video very decent! It will spend 15 minutes of video 640x480/30fps on a piece 2GB. Recently I had to record much more than that, and A650 was the only caméscope with range of the hand, thus I placed it to make 320x240/30fps. That the format allowed more than 45 minutes of recording on a piece 2GB. Not by using anything but naked A650 (no tripod, no mic external) I obtained it video of acceptable amateur of a dinner of meeting of family, speeches of tightening and interviews clearly. By using the iMovie and the iDVD of APPLE, I could send by the DVDs post office of the occasion to the participants in a few days. A650 would serve certainly any relative wanting to capture a play of school or to dance considering it. Good quality of image, convenient orders, visual capacities, a liquid crystal display with which makes the hula -- with what is not like? Well, there are some minor things to complain approximately. One, the reflector view finder is close relation-useless for me, a disappointment as I am accustomed to compose in the optical discoverer of a SLR. There is no information of image in the discoverer. He cultivates a good 10% of the real image. The barrel of the objective exceeds in the image of discoverer to some reports/ratios of buzz. The liquid crystal display is the only manner practises to compose. The discoverer is a naked-useful fall when the ambient light is so high the liquid crystal display is illegible. Two, you bourdonnez while swivelling a lever on the left or, and I just cannot obtain it right if I push left or right bourdonner INSIDE. And, it is difficult to order the buzz: after I push the lever the false manner, I push it the other manner and quickly exceeds the composition which I want, and owe bourdonner behind, jolt, jolt, jolt. There is just no comparison to turn the ring of buzz on the barrel of an objective of SLR, which is a soft and normal manner to compose. Three, a camera with this quality of image, and the support of the opening and the obturator-priority as well as the full hand drive operation (as it a) really must support BELIEVED. Are the mode "fine" JPGs indeed good quality but how hard could it have not to treat visual data just? An irritation which the handbook approximately informs in fact: the microphone of in-apparatus-photo capture each noise of your fingers on the orders. If you bourdonnez during a video, the click-clack of the lever of buzz is very audible on the sound track. In conclusion, I have to still examine A650 in the low-light, the situations haut-OIN. I have hopes that the processor improved of "digic III" will make well, but donot can say only it. Other that these exits, A650 in the daily use is pleasant and comfortable. I intend to obtain many years and images out of him.


starsFeature rich camera to grab and go
With obtained this as small camera when I do not want with packing my DSLR. I had PowerShot before... these glance and feeling are similar to one which I obtained years ago. It is smelled good in the easy hand... with the growth a-handing-over, and is good if you have larger hands. The menus are rather intuitive, and the buttons are there for functions generally used. I employed this during the day and the night. It carried out well in both Ébruitez cases obviously at high ISOs, but where very dark, it does not reveal as much. I feel construction, whereas not metal, is still vigorous. It should be maintained in well-upholstered little bag of camera. The principal devices are the stabilization of image and the raised OIN, which have like consequence of the more pointed images; also the flick of 180 degrees out of the screen, which you can use to obtain yourself in the easier image. Exits: Would prefer a shorter option during the time of review of image than 2 seconds... differently, you must stop the review completely.


starsBeyond Outstanding!
The first reviewer did such a fantastic job reviewing this camera there is little more I can add.

As a professional photographer, I've owned a lot of cameras. I still have and shoot medium and large format film but in the smaller 35mm size, I now shoot nearly 100% digital. For my small digitals, I own several of the G-series and a couple of the A-Series PowerShot cameras, including the A710IS. It's a very, very good camera but I did not like the flash, battery life, or the non-flip LCD viewer.

Canon fixed the flash, doubled the batteries, and put the flip-LCD in! Also, the new SD-SDHC cards are supported. The San Disc 4GB Extreme III with the card reader is the perfect flash memory card for it too.

This is, by a wide margin, the best "pocketable" camera available on the market today at any price. The words "Landmark Product" come to mind.

If the nearly $400 takes your breath away, save up for it and wait until the price drops a bit.

For those like me on the perpetual upgrade treadmill spending $400-$700 every year for the incremental features we need and want, we've finally reached that illusive destination!



starsBest A-series Canon yet -- worth the upgrade
I'm a long-standing fan of A-series Canons. I started with the A40, went A80, A95, A620, A640, and now this A650 - yes, it's out there, earlier than expected. They all have excelled in picture quality, but each has brought something new to the game. Most improvements between top end models were notable but fairly marginal (ISO increase, bigger screen or MP). My most recent move from the A620 to A640 was one of the smallest. The A640 had higher megapixels than the A620 and a bigger LCD but offered little else besides a black case. Then they went and stuck the SD card in behind the battery door -- a real bummer continued into the A650.

The A650, though, is a major reboot for the series. Improvements from the A640: 12MP; image stabilization; a 6x lens that's much improved from any previous A series glass; a higher resolution LCD that's the same size as the old A640 but produces much better quality images; a distance sensing flash that won't blow out subjects close to the camera. This works better than manual flash level method when out of Auto in old A640; there are the DIGIC III improvements: red eye removal tool, face sensor, better shot-to-shot speed, longer battery life; a higher ISO 1600 is there and a 3200 (in lower resolution) plus, in my experience, less noise in the lower ISOs when comparing it to the A640 ISO to ISO; a better viewfinder; a new interface for picture playback shows the grid images but slightly enlarges the chosen picture over the tic-tac-toe -- a nice improvement. Finally, there's a focus check that pulls in the focal box image for quick perusal (still love to have a live histogram), and an "auto" ISO that'll bump up the ISO to prevent blurring -- this works, but I prefer to choose (it's selectable off/on). That's a big pile of improvements from one camera to the next. The 6X G-series lens and image stabilization are enough to make the jump but packing in all the rest makes this a worthy move for A640 users.

What else? They've changed the button layout a bit, adding a direct ISO button on the back -- nice. They've also added a much-needed gauge for zoom/wide. You can finally see where you are in the zoom range -- very nice and needed. The viewfinder has an expanded reach that's an improvement over the A640 as well, though I rarely compose with the viewfinder since you are still getting 80% or so of the final image. This camera also brings a new sensor, bigger than the A640. This is a relief, since the print size for a jump from 10-12 wouldn't be huge. But squeezing more MP out of the previous sensor would have brought noise. Canon did things one better and upped the size of the sensor and the pictures really sing for the improvement.

It maintains the usual A-series pluses: runs on AA batteries (four of them - best for the quickest flash recharge), has easy capacity for add-on lenses for telephoto and wide, plus underwater cases, and has the same wonderful flip out screen of the top-end A series cameras (this time with a much needed pixel count increase -- there's much better resolution here). Also the usual full manual control, the many shooting and `scene' modes (21 of them), and a custom slot for your favorite settings are still there. So far, it seems perfectly in line with the A series consistent reputation for image quality.

I did feel the A640 delivered a more contrasty image than the A620. This new A650 produces images more in line with the A620, they feel richer and I feel like the mid-tones are brighter than with the A640 so they don't have the same contrasty out of camera quality of the A640.

What's the downside? Well, really only one major caveat here: The build quality. The A620 was a solid machine. The A640 was nice as well, the black case felt good in the hands. The A650 takes a step back here. The design, with the split silver/black casing already looks cheaper than the old A640. But then, flip the zoom button and you can feel it. The lever is lighter and makes a sort of unsatisfying clicking. It doesn't say "quality." And when the camera body is in your hands, it feels cheaper. It weighs a few ounces more than its predecessor does but it's a larger camera. Instead of a 2 oz. bump, you'd expect five or six based on size alone. They obviously didn't skimp on the glass (lens) and the features are well, you'd be hard press to want for anything (aside from RAW support) here. But the body feels truly plastic. Flip the switch on the A640 that moves you from playback to record and do the same on the newly redesigned A650 and you can feel it. The A650 switch feels light and cheap.

In addition, and no surprise, there's no native RAW support. The lack of RAW may be a non-issue eventually, as free hacked firmware is available (and likely warranty killing) to get DIGIC II cameras to do RAW. DIGIC III is likely right around the corner. But Canon does so well in the lower ISOs that you get a great image "in camera." And this new machine has dialed back the NR so that there's more detail in the higher ISOs. I can't imagine using ISO3200 (they've dubbed it 'cell phone') but the usability of ISO 800 is remarkable. This is from someone who hates noise and tends to stick with ISO80 whenever possible. It's not an F-series Fuji in the low light, but in some ways, it's better. There's more detail and depth than the Fuji with a bit more noise. But no Fuji has the picture quality at lower ISOs in normal light like a Canon. This A-series takes the best images yet from any A-series camera -- and at 12mp! All the feature improvements are very, very welcome (big zoom and IS) but the fantastic image quality is really the bottom line.



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