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

Excellent deal regardless of the cost. Quality photos match that of any camera. Video is very exceptional.

For the price, this one is a steal. The manual settings give you a lot of control while the image stabilization works perfectly to give you great shots.
This is a great camera for a budding photographer to test his skills before jumping on to a SLR. After one gets a good grasp of the controls, the photos come out stunning.

One problem is that the time between shots is a bit high, and I have missed out some great moments because of this. Also the compartment for the battery and the SD card could have been improved upon

I have had this camera for about a year now and have really taken some great pictures with it. I am not a professional by any stretch so this one has a few more bells and whistles than I need. I may take some classes so I can grow into it and learn about setting shutter speeds, which might clear up my issues of not getting good action shots. For now I basically stick to the auto mode except for the occasional short video clip. The colors are always crisp and I have gotten some great close-ups with the macros of bees and butterflies in my flower beds. It took some getting used to but now it is second nature for me to press the shutter halfway to let it refocus and then snap the picture. I got some great action shots at the jousting event at the local Renaissance Festival recently.
I did notice two features that are lacking on this model that my old Samsung Digimax A503 Red Digital Camera 5MP, had. (1) no internal memory. I noticed that when I was up on Mackinac Island (MI) this summer. While I was uploading my SD card to my laptop and had a photo op out the window I could not take the picture, unless I would have canceled the upload and put the SD back in. My old Samsung would hold 5-7 images if I didn't have the memory card in. (2) no cropping in preview. Again, my old Samsung you could zoom in on a preview of a photo and hit the shutter button again and it would create a new file of the cropped photo. Nice for printing directly from the card to a printer without editing software. But this camera is definitely a top-notch choice for point and shoot photography.

Small, light, easy to use, with good optics and the very important viewfinder (flat screens in back, however large, are useless in bright sunlight!). Definitely worth the money for the amateur photographer/snapshot photographer.

I'm really glad I chose this camera, I'm no expert...so this camera is very user friendly, and ends up taking some pretty good pictures for me, especially outdoors.