Canon PowerShot A580 8MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom

The Canon PowerShot A580 offers high-quality stills and movies with unsurpassed simplicity. Even beginners can create phenomenal images with the amazing PowerShot A580. This impressive 8.0-megapixel digital camera has a 4x optical zoom and bright 2.5-inch LCD that make shooting simple and convenient. To give you superior quality images without having to worry about the details, there's a full range of Canon's highly-advanced features at your service - including a powerful DIGIC III Image Processor, enhanced Face Detection technology, a host of shooting modes including a new Easy Mode and more. Built-in ElectronicFlash - Auto, Red-eye Reduction, Auto Red-eye Correction, Flash On, Flash Off; FE lock, Slow Synchro Flash Range - 12 in.-11 ft./30cm-3.5m (W), 12 in.-7.2 ft./30cm-2.2m (T) (when sensitivity is set to ISO Auto) Shooting Modes - Auto, Easy, Camera M, Portrait, Landscape, Special Scene (Foliage, Snow, Beach, Sunset, Fireworks, Night Scene, Aquarium), Indoor, Kids & Pets, Night Snapshot, Movie Storage Media - SD/SDHC Memory Card, MultiMediaCard, MMC Plus Card, HC MMC Plus Card - Suggest optional 1GB or higher for practical use File Format Design rule for camera file system, DPOF Version 1.1; JPEG Compression Mode - Still Image - Exif 2.2 (JPEG); Movie - AVI (Image - Motion JPEG; Audio - WAVE (Monaural)) Number of Recording Pixels - Still Image - 3,264 x 2,448 (Large), 2,592 x 1,944 (Medium 1), 2,048 x 1,536 (Medium 2), 1,600 x 1,200 (Medium 3/Date Stamp), 640 x 480 (Small), 3,264 x 1,832 (Widescreen); Movie - 640 x 480 (20 fps/20 fps LP), 320 x 240 (30 fps) available up to 4GB or 60 minutes, 160 x 120 (up to 3 minutes at 15 fps) Uses 2 AA Batteries - Shooting Capacity for Still Image - approx. 220 shots (AA-size Alkaline Battery), approx. 500 shots (AA-size Ni-MH Battery); Playback Time - Approx. 540 min. (AA-size Alkaline Battery), approx. 660 min. (AA-size Ni-MH Battery) - Sugge
Customer Review: A580
excellent product. i have one at work for technical work,and was so impressed I bought one for home
Customer Review: Great value in a small package
The Canon PowerShot A580 was exactly what I wanted: a small camera that would fit on a belt in a case or around the neck, one with an actual optical viewfinder in addition to the LCD screen, decent optical zoom (4X), a brand with a good reputation, and good value for the money (about USD $150). This camera has all of these features. Because I have used Canon cameras in the past, the dials and buttons are almost intuitive now although there are some differences which were easy to learn. Adjusting for light variation in the shot (light background and dark foreground) was difficult to do quickly. Fortunately, one can easily make adjustments on the computer using Adobe Photo Shop (the less expensive version). I would recommend a larger SD memory card than the one provided or the maximum available through Canon (512MB. While I prefer my Canon Digital Rebel SLR camera for overseas travel, this A580 is perfect for city shots, candids of friends or family, and as a backup camera. I would recommend this camera without hesitation.

There are many ways to learn digital photography, the most obvious one being practice, but there are also less obvious choices... like the title of this article for example: "online digital photography training".

Learning how to take good pictures with a digital camera can be a hard task to accomplish, and I guess more importantly for some people, to make (a lot) of money from them can be an even harder task.

But now after the huge thing called the internet, learning digital photography online has never been easier.

Getting a mentor

There are many ways actually, to go through online digital photography training, for example you could hire someone to teach you personally, basically a mentor... but that would probably run you dollars up in four figures.

Another way to learn digital photography is...

Taking online classes

Similar to the previous option, except not only you get coached and you do it together (virtually, that is) with an entire class. Very expensive, but also very effective.

The third option, which is my favorite, is to...

Teaching yourself

Now studying and learning digital photography all by yourself may seem like a daunting task at first, but let me tell you one thing:

There are hoards of courses online which you can get hold of very cheaply. A lot of them aren't legit, so watch out. That would be the one drawback of purchasing some products online, but you just have to pick the good ones.

Making money from your photos

Now what I think is even cooler about the whole internet thing is that you can make a full time income just by submitting your digital photographs to certain websites, it's really cool actually, and some people make serious money from it.

Well that's it for this article, feel free to research any of the above ways by yourself... I can't do everything for you! Good luck with your Digital Photography!

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