Canon PowerShot A590IS 8MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom: Customer Reviews & Product Details

We did a lot of homework before buying this camera, and we haven't been disappointed with our choice. It is easy to use on the auto settings, giving very clear pictures. A nice feature is compatibility with old DSL lenses.

I like this camera a lot. I have taken so many pictures and I am still learning and experimenting. I am new to digital and actually got this with a gift certificate. I would never go back to my 35mm now. I had several people tell me that Canon is an excellent lower end camera and I agree. The Powershot A590IS got great reviews on the tech sites on the internet. I especially like using the night feature. I got some great winter shots when it was snowing. Great pictures. If you are just starting or just want a great lower end camera, I would recommend this one. The Canon website has a lot of instructional information besides what comes with the camera. It has everything but the bag and I purchase that separately. I bought a Tamrac bag which I also highly recommend.

I bought this camera as an upgrade to my old PowerShot A520. With my old camera it was really hard to take a bad picture, so when I started having problems I decided to upgrade just in time for vacation. I am a typical occational camera user, vacations, special occations, a pretty day etc. With my old camera I only used minimal settings, portrait, movement, night, nothing fancy. Since this camera looked similar, I thought they would perform similar....boy was I wrong.

The picture quality is horrible. I was shocked when I came back and more than 90% of my vacation pictues were grainy. I tried to take some pictures in a night club, I changed my settings several times and never did get a clear picture. This weekend was my son's birthday party and I had the setting on kids and pets. I tried to get some pictures of him and his friends driving goKarts, all of them were blurry until they stopped moving??? The rest of the pictures, what a surprise, came out grainy. I got out the user manual and basically found out if the situation is this, change the settings to this, this and that. If the situation is this, then change the settings again, and again, and again. This is way to complicated. I don't want to spend 10 minutes adjusting the camera setting every time I want to take another picture. Time is up on this camera. I am looking for something else. I am extremley disappointed in this model.

This is a used camera. It seems to work well though I have not used it a lot and need to read the manuals included with the camera before I can fully utilize its features.

I bought this camera from Amazon a year ago to take along on my weekend hikes in the mountains. It takes great photos, although after a year I often get "lens error" messages and the camera freezes. In its defense it's taken several thousand photos of my travels.

I can take good micro shots of bugs and plants, take short (under three minute) videos and other creative features. I bought rechargable batteries for this to cut down on regular batteries.

But why the price hike to almost $300? I bought this same camera here for $99.95! What's up with this, Amazon? This is a year-old camera, the price should be dropping, not rising!