Customer Rating: 
Summary: Canon A5901S
Comment: The range of features is incredible for such a small camera. Although I am not much of a photography buff I have enjoyed experimenting with different shutter speeds, apertures, lighting etc. The AUTO setting takes very good pictures with quick recovery for the next shot. Connection to a PC and printer is very easy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: top notch camera
Comment: This camera was everything I expected and more. Very user friendly. I had been using film until now and I am not disappointed. The quality of the photos with 8 megapixels are great. So many good points and options there are too many to list. I did my homework, and this is the best small digital camera for the price range. I put a 4 G flash card in it and I am very happy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Bought this as a gift and was amazed!
Comment: This camera is stunning! It takes great pictures and easy to use and very lightweight. For the price, in my opinion, this is the best point and shoot camera in it's class.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great value for the money
Comment: I'll leave the detailed feature reviews for those who have the time to write for free, but this camera is a great value for the money. It has aperture priority and shutter speed priority settings, as well as a host of scene modes that shift the white balance to the lighting for various scenes. There's even an aquarium mode, which I've tested and found to be very useful.
There are so many features that one might feel overwhelmed, but you can start taking pictures immediately with the easy mode or the auto mode and let the camera take care of things for you. You can disable flash in all modes, so if you are using easy mode in a museum where you aren't permitted to take flash pictures, you can turn it off.
Battery life is much better than the last camera I had (a Fuji Finepix 1300), and it takes 1/2 as many batteries (2 versus 4) also. I use the Duracell 2650 ma/hr rechargeable NiMH batteries, the highest capacity I could find locally, and keep 2 spares freshly charged. I haven't tried this camera on alkaline batteries but I would expect shorter battery life, though probably better than in most cameras.
Zoom works well. It stops at 4x optical when you zoom but it can go further with digital zoom (with some picture degradation, of course), up to 16x. I like the fact that it stops you from going beyond the maximum optical zoom before you enter the digital zoom, and beyond 4x it changes the magnification factor number to blue characters, so 5.5x would be blue, to warn you that you are beyond the optical zoom's capabilities. It's easy to mute the camera when you turn it on if you need to be quiet when you take a snapshot, as in some nature photography. You just have to hold one button on while you turn the camera on and it puts it in mute mode so the camera doesn't beep every time you push a button to change some setting.
Great camera, great price at $109, and you can find it in the Amazon Marketplace for about $10 less right now from Adorama Camera as a refurbished unit if you don't mind that. I would have bought one of those refurbs from them but at the time there were none for sale below $109 anywhere else.
If you need more features and greater zoom range, consider the 10x model, but this one got the greatest overall reviews everywhere (not just on Amazon) and that was a major decider for me.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The best camera you can buy for the money
Comment: Pictures are great, very fast response time (for a digital camera). The zoom works while recording (not many small cameras do this). Full manual control, including flash intensity. Buy it.
Summary: Canon A5901S
Comment: The range of features is incredible for such a small camera. Although I am not much of a photography buff I have enjoyed experimenting with different shutter speeds, apertures, lighting etc. The AUTO setting takes very good pictures with quick recovery for the next shot. Connection to a PC and printer is very easy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: top notch camera
Comment: This camera was everything I expected and more. Very user friendly. I had been using film until now and I am not disappointed. The quality of the photos with 8 megapixels are great. So many good points and options there are too many to list. I did my homework, and this is the best small digital camera for the price range. I put a 4 G flash card in it and I am very happy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Bought this as a gift and was amazed!
Comment: This camera is stunning! It takes great pictures and easy to use and very lightweight. For the price, in my opinion, this is the best point and shoot camera in it's class.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great value for the money
Comment: I'll leave the detailed feature reviews for those who have the time to write for free, but this camera is a great value for the money. It has aperture priority and shutter speed priority settings, as well as a host of scene modes that shift the white balance to the lighting for various scenes. There's even an aquarium mode, which I've tested and found to be very useful.
There are so many features that one might feel overwhelmed, but you can start taking pictures immediately with the easy mode or the auto mode and let the camera take care of things for you. You can disable flash in all modes, so if you are using easy mode in a museum where you aren't permitted to take flash pictures, you can turn it off.
Battery life is much better than the last camera I had (a Fuji Finepix 1300), and it takes 1/2 as many batteries (2 versus 4) also. I use the Duracell 2650 ma/hr rechargeable NiMH batteries, the highest capacity I could find locally, and keep 2 spares freshly charged. I haven't tried this camera on alkaline batteries but I would expect shorter battery life, though probably better than in most cameras.
Zoom works well. It stops at 4x optical when you zoom but it can go further with digital zoom (with some picture degradation, of course), up to 16x. I like the fact that it stops you from going beyond the maximum optical zoom before you enter the digital zoom, and beyond 4x it changes the magnification factor number to blue characters, so 5.5x would be blue, to warn you that you are beyond the optical zoom's capabilities. It's easy to mute the camera when you turn it on if you need to be quiet when you take a snapshot, as in some nature photography. You just have to hold one button on while you turn the camera on and it puts it in mute mode so the camera doesn't beep every time you push a button to change some setting.
Great camera, great price at $109, and you can find it in the Amazon Marketplace for about $10 less right now from Adorama Camera as a refurbished unit if you don't mind that. I would have bought one of those refurbs from them but at the time there were none for sale below $109 anywhere else.
If you need more features and greater zoom range, consider the 10x model, but this one got the greatest overall reviews everywhere (not just on Amazon) and that was a major decider for me.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The best camera you can buy for the money
Comment: Pictures are great, very fast response time (for a digital camera). The zoom works while recording (not many small cameras do this). Full manual control, including flash intensity. Buy it.
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