Cannon A70

Has anyone had any experience with the Cannon A70? I'm digital camera
challenged and would appreciate any advice. I want to take pictures of
artwork (some as small as 3 x 5 inches) as well as the usual travel, family
and zoom photos. Capability to hold lots of color print album-quality
photos would be nice. TIA
Lobo
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:44:19 GMT, "Lobo" wrote:

 >Has anyone had any experience with the Cannon A70? I'm digital camera
 >challenged and would appreciate any advice. I want to take pictures of
 >artwork (some as small as 3 x 5 inches) as well as the usual travel, family
 >and zoom photos. Capability to hold lots of color print album-quality
 >photos would be nice.

I "only" got the A60, but I find it adaquate for regular photo use;
i.e. people indoors and outdoors, buildings - all come out quite
nicely.

You might have to "sharpen" (USM - look it up, just as well learn it
right-away...) the picture in a photo editor of some kind before
having them printed as they are not as sharp as some other brands
out-of-the-camera - "sharp" not to be confused with out-of-focus! -
they just need some work before print *as most do anyway* (crop the
pic so that unwanted things don't get printed, get the right
proportions, red-eye removal, ...)

For those close-up artwork photos the flash could be too powerful at
that short range, but you have a useful manual mode where it can be
adjusted and also the A70 can take filters (I bought a polarizer,
52mm thread) or close-up lenses when you use the optional
lens-adapter.

You should get a 256MB or larger CF, in my experience the auto-focus
in its advanced mode could miss the intended focus point... I have
shots of a very sharp ground with blured flowers to prove it!

If you don't want to do the work in a photo editor for each photo
there are options like DCE AutoEnhance and JPEGCrops.

Or you could get the Nikon equvivalent of the A70... <!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->