Updated 15 Feb, 2012, 6:16 pm IST

REVIEWS / POINT AND SHOOT / CANON INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

Canon PowerShot A550

15 Jun, 2007, 1:23 pm IST | Laiq Qureshi | Point and Shoot

Features
A 7MP camera, the A550 goes one notch higher than the usual cameras in the same price range with 4x optical zoom. This offers some relief from the regular 3x zooms available in the market. However, what disappoints me is the 2-inch LCD screen. It’s capable of displaying 86,000 pixels but just isn’t big enough. Also, the camera comes without the face detection technology.

The various modes that the camera offers, however, makes for a pleasant experience. For those who that don’t like fussing around too much with the camera manually, the mode dial is just about as far as they would have to look. It gives access to modes like Auto, Portrait, Landscape, Night Snapshot, Kids and Pets, Indoor, Scene and Manual. Further, more scene options are available through the scene mode. These consist - night scene, foliage, snow, beach, and fireworks.

Interestingly, the camera also offers presets like high-speed movie mode that offers 60fps with 320x240 QVGA. Also like most of the A-series cameras this one too works on two AA batteries. So whenever you run out of batteries, you can replace them conveniently at any other shop. Do remember to use only Alkaline-based batteries though.

Like all the Canon cameras, this one too features the AiAF (Artificial Intelligent Auto-Focus) that intelligently and automatically selects one or more focusing points based on factors, such as subject position and motion. A550 offers a 9-point AiAF system.

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