Canon PowerShot A800

Zitat: Pro: + Excellent overall performance; Good Macro performance; Easy to use; Good ergonomics; Light and stylish; Good price. Cons: - Little customisation; No image stabilisation; LCD viewfinder is difficult to use outdoors; Chromatic aberrations can be bothersome at high zoom; Shutter button lacks focus lock half-press tactile feedback.

Zitat: The Good: + Easy to use point and shooter + inexpensive The Bad: - Bulkier and less style-orientated than your average pocket camera - obviously plastic build - no HD video or HDMI output - memory card costs extra For those with between £60 and £80 to spend on a snapshot camera for the kids or the mother-in-law, the A800 offers fair value for money, an easy to use feature set and fair results. For what’s being asked here it’s hard to grumble about what’s been left out

Zitat: Apart from a few new shooting modes and a questionable cosmetic overhaul that actually makes the camera slightly more difficult to use, it´s difficult to see just what Canon have added to the new Powershot A800 to justify its release. The biggest improvements are the doubling in battery life, now up to around 300 shots, and a significant reduction in price to well below the £100 / $100 point. The removal of the hand-grip, presumably to make the camera prettier on the eye, along with the boxy front redesign are retrograde steps in our opinion. However, as the picture performance of the A800 is notably little different from more expensive IXUS models, and if you don´t need a wider-angle lens or bigger screen, then this budget model starts to make sense as an inexpensive route to image capture for digital photography novices. The A800 doesn´t have the dashing looks of some rivals and isn´t quite as easy to use as its predecessor, but it does still deliver good image quality with better battery life for a much more wallet-friendly price. That just makes the Canon Powershot A800 worthy of our Recommended award.

Zitat: Pro: + Battery-powered + easy to operate + reliable pictures. Contra: - Too big for a shirt pocket - some blur - poor video. Although the A800´s list price is a touch optimistic - we´re sure it will be hugely discounted soon - Canon´s latest will be a welcome addition to the shortlist for those on a budget. An increasingly rare thing even in the budget market, this back-to-basics camera from a trusted brand eschews fancy tech in favour of core, even old-fashioned features; a reassuringly chunky build quality, AA batteries, and an interface that´s as easy to use as any digital camera we´ve seen. The PowerShot A800 is about as versatile as you´d expect at this price - that is to say, not very - but its good value image quality is enough to convince us that this point-and-shooter for novices is a well-judged, well-made product that deserves to do well.

Zitat: Pro: + Batterie-Laufzeit + Auflösung Contra: - Bildrauschen - Detailtreue - Auslöseverzögerung - Veraltete Video-Funktion Weniger als 80 Euro für eine Kamera vom Markenhersteller sind ein echter Knüllerpreis. Doch die Leistung spiegelt in erster Linie den Preis, nicht das Know-How des Herstellers wider. Die PowerShot A800 liefert einigermaßen brauchbare Fotos allein bei Tageslicht. Die Ausstattung bleibt karg, die Geschwindigkeit zu langsam. Auch wenn das Budget knapp ist, empfehlen wir etwas mehr in die neue Kamera zu investieren.