My local camera store is having a sale on Canon cameras and since I have been looking for a decent and small point and shoot camera as some kind of backup to my 40D and something that I can take video clips with so I bought a Canon A570 IS like 15 minutes ago with money I saved for a tripod lol.

I am going to post some pictures later but first I need to find those tiny SD cards that I should have laying around here somewhere lol.

EDIT: It kinda surprises me how small and "plasticy" it feels in my hand lol and even though it actually has a normal viewfinder but it's kinda useless and tiny lol.

picture taken with it's big brother


This post was edited by Futurama on Feb 24 2009 03:58pm

Grats ^^

haha lol thanks!
Hey didn't you say that you don't have your own camera? Maybe you should get one of those too if you can't afford to get a DSLR anytime soon. I only paid a hundred bucks for it ^^ and it got 7.1 Mpixel and Image stabilizer.

I have the a560 somewhere...pretty nice point and shoot for under $200 - too bad it takes AA batteries.

Well you could get rechargeable AA batteries but of course they nowhere as good as those battery packs for DSLR I mean I have taken like 700 pictures with my 40D and have had it for almost two months now and I have only recharged it once . I remember my old point and shoot HP Photosmart 945 I think I had to recharge the batteries after like 100 pics -.- what a pos lol

This post was edited by Futurama on Feb 24 2009 04:13pm

Lol my dad had that camera.
It's garbage. We sold it after a week.

Here is a picture of my EOS 40D taken with my new p&s at ISO 800 lol. As expected the noise level is extremely high but of course low light pictures are not intended to be taken with a p&s anyway. I will post some more test shots tomorrow when I am going to take some outdoor daylight pictures with both of my cameras just to do some comparisons lol.



another picture taken with the built-in flash



This post was edited by Futurama on Feb 24 2009 07:32pm

point and shoots are good for taking pics of stuff u want to remember to come back to and spend time getting a good photo but don't have the time to set up or the lighting is shit

my gf had this camera. its a tank. just watch out for the battery lid breaking off.
ive got a canon powershot a650is as my standby

yeah the battery lid does looks a bit fragile but I will try to be more careful with it lol.


The reason I bought it is because I kinda want a backup camera and a camera that I can play around with or bring with me to places that aren't very uh friendly for those larger and more expensive cameras I mean after all it's only a hundred bucks lol.