Canon PowerShot A75 3.2MP Digital Camera with 3X Optical Zoom

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List Price:: $249.99

Average Customer Rating:: 4.0 out of 5

Manufacturer:: Canon

Features

3.2-megapixel sensor captures enough detail to create photo-quality 10-by-14-inch enlargements
Canon 3x optical zoom lens combines with 3.3x digital zoom
9-point autofocus; movie mode; 1.8-inch LCD monitor; PictBridge compatible
Store images on Compact Flash Type I memory cards (32 MB card included)
Powered by 4 AA-size batteries (alkaline included, rechargeable NiMH recommended)

Description

The PowerShot A75 is easy to use yet fully equipped to explore the world of digital photography. With Canon Visionary Technology, this camera delivers breathtaking results at an affordable price.Even though it contains a host of advanced technologies, the PowerShot A75 has been designed so first time users can switch on and start shooting for immediate, great results - straight out of the box. Yet for those that intuitively push the boundaries of their products, this 3.2 Megapixel camera comes packed with a host of features. The PowerShot A75 has a 3x optical zoom to close in on the action, giving photographers greater scope to get the composition just right. 13 versatile shooting modes are on board for you to experiment with - including a new 'Scene Mode' which gives access to special pre-programmed creative modes such as 'fireworks', 'foliage', 'beach' and 'snow'. The 9-point AiAF helps to ensure pictures are always perfectly focused, even when the subject is not centered. Take up to 180 second movie clips, complete with sound recording and playback on the generous 1.8" LCD monitor. For very high definition playback on a TV, the camera can even record up to 30 second VGA clips. Every function on the PowerShot A75 works with you to help take great photos. Canon Visionary Technologies combine in the form of a superb quality lens, precision sensor and super fast processor to ensure accurate, high clarity image rendering. To speed up focusing and optimize exposures, the camera analyzes the scene and makes setting adjustments even before the shutter release is pressed.

The successor to Canon's popular A70, the entry-level PowerShot A75 is a surprisingly advanced model with a 3.2-megapixel resolution, 3x optical zoom, and more manual features than you'll find on most digital point-and-shoots. Featuring a high-tech design with aluminum front cover and metallic handgrip, the PowerShot A75 combines a sense of both the modern and the traditional.

Optics and Resolution
The PowerShot A75 has a maximum 3.2-megapixel resolution for images up to 2048 x 1536 pixels. You'll have the depth and detail you need to create beautiful prints and impressive online results. It also has 1600 x 1200, 1024 x 768, and 640 x 480 resolution modes.

It's is equipped with a 5.4-16.2mm zoom lens (35mm film equivalent: 35-105mm) for a 3x optical zoom. It also featuresa smooth 3.2x digital zoom, for a 9.6x total zoom. The 9-point AiAF is capable of focusing the 3x optical zoom quickly even when the subject is off-center and can be switched to single point (center) AF. An auto-assist beam helps to focus in low light conditions and the camera has a 5cm closest focusing distance.

Movie Mode
In addition to still images, the PowerShot A75 can also capture video with audio (and even edit within the camera). Individual movie clips are limited to 3 minutes maximum per clip, and you have three resolution options: 640 x 480 (VGA), 320 x 240, or 160 x 120.

More Camera Features
The PowerShot A75 has 12 shooting modes that not only let you take as much or as little creative control as you want, but offer perfect preset parameters for common shooting situations including portraits, landscapes, night scenes and sports. In addition, the camera has a new Special Scene Mode that delivers even under the most challenging conditions.

Offering a wider scope for photographic experimentation, Canon has also included manual, aperture priority, and shutter priority exposure modes. These modes are supported by a metering system that boasts evaluative, center-weighted average and spot options. Other features include:

1.8-inch low-temperature polycrystalline silicon TFT color LCD (110,000 pixels) and real-image optical zoom viewfinder
With 9-point AiAF, focus is fast and accurate no matter where your subject appears in the frame
Photo effects: Vivid, neutral, low sharpening, sepia, and black & white
Continuous shooting: Approximately 2.2 shots/second
White balance control: Auto, pre-set (daylight, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent, fluorescent H), or custom white balance
Built-in flash with Auto, Red-Eye Reduction ON/ OFF, Slow-Sync modes
Shutter speed: 15 to 1/2,000 seconds

Canon Technology Features

Digic Imaging Processor: While much technical discussion of digital cameras centers around the optics and the CCD sensor, the complex task of image rendering is the job of the image processor--the "brains" of a digital camera. Canon's latest, exclusive DIGIC Imaging Processor significantly enhances digital camera performance in numerous areas. DIGIC's high-speed signal processing is combined with high-capacity buffering to give Canon digital cameras fast response and continuous shooting capability unmatched by other digital cameras. DIGIC delivers longer battery life and beautiful, rich color rendition with far fewer white saturation problems. And DIGIC's unequaled precision delivers clear, noise-free images that are demonstrably superior.
iSAPS Technology: Canon iSAPS (Intelligent Scene Analysis based on Photographic Space) technology dramatically improves the performance of AF (Autofocus), AE (Auto Exposure), and AWB (Auto White Balance). By analyzing a huge volume of photography data, accumulated over 60 years and the manufacture of over 150 million cameras, Canon engineers arrived at statistical relationships among focal length, focus distance, scene brightness, and other factors. Equipped with this "fore knowledge" Canon PowerShot cameras can optimize AF/AE/AWB settings for any given scene more rapidly and more effectively.
Multi-point AiAF: Canon's wide-area, multi-point AiAF (artificial intelligence autofocus) automatically selects one or more focusing points based on factors, such as subject position and motion. AiAF works in conjunction with iSAPS Technology to more quickly and accurately achieve autofocus under a wide variety of shooting conditions. You get fast, accurate AF whether you hold the camera horizontally or vertically, with stationary or moving subjects, with off-center subjects, and even in low-light/low-contrast lighting.

Direct Printing/Sharing
The PowerShot A75 introduces a new Print/Share button that speeds and simplifies printing to compatible Canon and PictBridge enabled printers and one-touch image transfer to Windows XP, Me, 2000, and 98 computers for use with image processing programs, uploading to the Internet, or placement in e-mail. When connected to a Canon Compact Photo printer, a Movie Print mode divides the selected clip into equal parts and prints thumbnails of a maximum 63 equally spaced frames onto a single sheet of Postcard Size Paper.

Storage and Transfer
Images and video are stored on CompactFlash memory cards (Type I only) and the included 32 MB card holds approximately 33 images at the Large/Fine setting. Images can be downloaded to either a Mac or PC via USB 1.1 connectivity, which means the camera can be connected to any USB-based Windows Me/2000/XP and Mac OS 8.6 or later computer without installing any software.

Power and Size
The camera is powered by four AA batteries (alkalines included; rechargeable NiMH batteries recommended). With the LCD on, you will get approximately 250 shots on when using alkalines, or 550 shots when using NiMH batteries. It measures 3.98 by 2.52 by 1.24 inches and weighs 7.06 ounces (without batteries).

What's in the Box
This package contains the PowerShot A75 digital camera, 32 MB CompactFlash card, wrist strap (WS-200), USB and A/V cables, and 4 AA alkaline batteries. The supplied software on the CD-ROM includes browsing and printing software ZoomBrowser EX (Windows) and ImageBrowser (Mac). Other software includes PhotoStitch, plus photo and movie manipulation software ArcSoft PhotoStudio and VideoImpression.

Spotlight customer reviews

Don't buy it

[ Posted: 2008-07-07 ]

Rating: 20%

Don't buy it if you want your digital camera lasting for more than 2 years. Both my friend and I bought one three years old. Now, the camera won't show the image on the screen. I can't take any photo.

Sigh! I am disappointed with 2 years life time.

3 years and still ticking!

[ Posted: 2008-05-08 ]

Rating: 100%

This originally purchased for my intro to photography class in 2005. I still use it today! Truthfully, I only ever use manual mode. Occasionally I make mini-movies with it (the movie function only records for 1.5minutes at a time). Its been somewhat abused (dropped a couple of times)- so I'm impressed that it still works great. This is excellent for beginners who aspire to develop their photography skills but aren't ready to commit to the higher end SLRs like the Rebel.

Many people don't like the autofocus boxes. Over the years I've learned to manipulate them so they aren't quite the hinderence they could be. You just gotta learn how to trick the camera to focus on what you want- I use my hand, its the best tool to get the autofocus boxes to move to where you want it to go. Obviously that adds more time to the setting up process of a shot.

For fast spur-of-the-moment pics, you'll either want to turn that feature off or switch over to auto. The hard part with auto of course, you can't control the fstop and iso settings as well as you can in manual. So give and take.

Not a pro camera by any means- but for the enthusiast, it is a good little workhorse. I love it! --- I would definitely recommend rechargeable batteries and 1GB+ memory cards.

This camera is a winner

[ Posted: 2007-11-28 ]

Rating: 100%

This camera is a winner. I got this last year for Christmas and man was it the perfect gift. Super easy to use and it takes the best pictures. I love that it is little and fits in my purse but still takes great pictures like the big cameras. You won't go wrong with this one.

messed up after 2 years of careful usage

[ Posted: 2007-11-23 ]

Rating: 60%

It was a pretty good camera until Canon came up with this tiny bit of cameras which does not require 4 AA batteries. Man, that is so unfair!
Anyway, I still used it, it drinks the batteries very quickly.
I would definitely pay a little bit more and buy a s300 or sth better.
Now, after 2 years, suddenly, no falling, no nothing, its display is not working and it will not take any pictures.

So I am left with it. I am planning to buy a sony this time, hope I will be lucky.

Save yourself the trouble, buy something else

[ Posted: 2007-11-03 ]

Rating: 60%

I bought this camera a few years ago and it worked wonderfully up until this summer. It started saying "memory card error" on the screen and wouldn't take pictures. If I executed a complicated series of commands, I might get the camera to turn on and take pictures for a brief amount of time. There was no guarantee that the memory card error would not come back and delete the pictures or make them inaccessible, so I never left pictures on the camera for more than a few minutes. This made using the camera outside of the house pretty much impossible.

Eventually even the complicated button mashing was no longer enough. It was all memory card error, all the time. Then the camera stopped turning on and/or off. It would freeze with its lens extended and not turn on no matter what, or it would refuse to turn off unless I removed the batteries. If I did get the camera on, when I pushed the menu button it was anywhere from 5-10 seconds for the menu to come up if it did at all.

I borrowed my mom's camera for a few months and hadn't bothered with this one, but I recently started messing around with it again. Once I figured out that simultaneously holding down the power and set buttons would let me turn the camera on, I contacted Canon support. I told them that I was getting a memory card error and that the camera was very difficult to turn on.

The response that I got was to reset it to the factory settings, and if that didn't work then I would have to send the camera in to them to repair. There was no mention of trying to format the memory card, cleaning the memory card and the slot, try a different card, nothing. Just send it in. I pay for shipping and insurance, and there's a minimum repair charge of $79, not including parts. Oh, and if I don't want to do that, they'll sell me a refurbished camera for $110. Why would I ever want to buy another Canon with customer service like that? No attempt was made to be helpful, they just wanted more money.

The only reason I gave the A75 three stars instead of one was because it took pretty decent pictures for the time that it worked, especially outside. So if you want to buy a camera that will only work for a year, year and a half tops, go ahead. I know I'll be replacing this one with a different brand and I doubt I'll ever buy Canon again.

The A75 is not the only Canon that has the memory card error problem; it seems like all the different models do. Buy at your own risk and don't expect any help from customer service.