Canon PowerShot A430

Opinion: Excellent little camera for the money. For $130, you get a basic 4mp camera with 4X optical zoom, plus your basic VGA movie mode, exposure compensation, macro/landscape mode. Controls are simple and easy to use.

Image quality is great for outdoors. Indoors and higher iso pictures not so good. Battery life with two 2000 mah rechargeable batteries is excellent. I can get over 800 pictures with a 1Gb SD card. The start up time is fast, but shot-shot time is a little slow.

For a cheap camera, there isn't anything to really complain about. It's a good competent basic point and shoot camera.

Opinion: I buyed this camera this Christmas for my grandparents(both 68 years old and have no computer).
This is a good and simple camera.
It makes nices pics and movies.
In higher ISO settings the pictures are a bit noisy but it doesn´t really matter.

Overall the best camera for people which cannot handle some complex camera with a lot of manual controls.

Opinion: Great camera, compact size, easy to use, looking nice(My A430 Blue), one of the best for money and I really like super macro shoot

Opinion: very bad

Opinion: Very bad photo!!!!!!

Opinion: This is an easy-to-use camera that produces great pictures. I bought the camersa in the Czech Republic and as a result got a user manual in Czeck - but I found I could set up and use the camera with no problems. (There is an english language manual on the supplied CD).

It powers up and down fairly quickly but can be a little slow in saving pictures to the memory card.

Having a viewfinder is a must - it enables you to steady the camera against your face when taking protos and it saves on battery power as you can turn the LCD off and this is one of the few compacts around that has a viewfinder.

I use a DSLR for most of my pictures but as a light, portable point-and-shoot camera this is ideal. A great little camera for the price.

Opinion: Beginner will be happy with this great 4MP camera, with 4x zoom, optical viewvinder, selectable ISO, scene modes, and VGA movie mode (with sound). But novice and amateur photographer must beware of the lens since at wideangle is not so wide, and long-end is slower than others.

Opinion: one of the best point and shoot camera i have ever had

Opinion: I have been using a Canon S45 for a few years. I wanted a bit smaller camera that ran on AA batteries instead of a propriatary battery pack. The A430 has some good features.

1. Quick start up time.
2. A quality lens and Good zoom.
3. Fairly compact for a camera that runs on AA's.
4. Canon quality images.
5. Movie mode and good sound capture.
6. Good variety of picture shooting modes and settings.
7. Optical viewfinder with zoom.

The camera does not have,

1. Shutter or apreature priority. You wont be able to shoot long exposure night scenes, but I have the S45 for that.
2. Only 2 stitch modes, right to left, and left to right. This doesn't matter too much, I was doing stitches by eye through the veiwfinder and stitching them after. You have to watch the exposure this way, but it's do-able.
3. A small view screen. I just mention this as so many cameras are advertizing a large veiw screen, usually sacraficing the optical viewer. With those you have to run the screen all the time. I typically have the screen shut off and I use the optical viewer most of the time to extend battery life. I have a computer for viewing the pictures in a large format.

For my needs this camera fills the bill nicely. It is small enough to carry in the pocket and the images are Canon quality. 4 megapixels is more than enough for the images I print (8.5 X 11 at the most) so I am not getting caught up in the 'Pixel Wars'.

A good camera for under $200.