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REVIEWS / POINT AND SHOOT / CANON INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

Canon Powershot A560

19 May, 2007, 1:27 pm IST | Gagan Gupta | Point and Shoot

Performance
The camera's colors leave little to be desired, but that little also matters these days considering there are other competing cameras offering really good black levels and the right kind of saturation. Speaking of saturation, the A560 does a pretty decent job of getting the colors right under most conditions but sometimes, it messes up when capturing over-exposed areas on certain colors. Take the car in the image below for example. The car standing in that picture was completely red, but the camera captured the parts where the sunlight directly reflected off it as shades of orange and yellow.

DIGIC III's noise reduction technology works pretty well in regular lighting, but under low light situations and higher ISO settings there is still a noticeable amount of digital grain.

The overall sharpness of the camera seems affected by its noise reduction engine too, considering that there aren't any pictures from the ones I took in my test shots that show a great amount of detail. Still, the detail levels are pretty much up to the level of satisfaction of most casual users.

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Tags: Canon , Powershot , A560 , digital camera , digicam , 7 megapixel

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