Canon Powershot A2000IS, Right for the price

Overall Rating4.54.54.54.54.5

Right for the price

I think this camera deserves four stars. I have used at least 10 digital cameras in the past 10 years, not counting the SLRs. At this price, $249, I think what this camera offers is as good as you can get from a pocket camera. There are some pros and cons but the pros far outweigh the cons. I like the A2000’s solid feel and weight, unlike the flimsy feel of the most other recent A series, such as my A570is. The pictures are as good as, if not better than, any pocket camera at this price. There are complaints about noise, but again find me better pictures from the same class of cameras.

The features, however, are what please me. I am not going to repeat them since it’s on the product description, but the use of AA batteries and 6x zoom are must haves for me. For better pictures quality, I use my SLR, but for pocket convenience, I’ll just enjoy this for the time being, until the technology catches up with our unquenchable taste.

—–Added——
After using it for a while, I couldn’t understand how anyone would rate this camera lower than 3 stars without good reasons. Try http://www.trustedreviews.com/digital-cameras/review/2008/09/19/Canon-PowerShot-A2000-IS for a fair review.

Update (2/6/2012): I also found some auctions for this item here.

The featured review for this product, Canon Powershot A2000IS 10MP Digital Camera with 6x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom Electronics, was written by Samuel M. Stone.

The average rating for this item is 4.7 out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.

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Reviews (2)

Rod Reidnauer

August 5th, 2010 at 12:17 am    


Overall Rating55555

Excellent if you don’t skimp on the SD card
This is an excellent compact digital camera. After my Fuji MX600ZOOM finally called it quits after 10 years, I chose the Canon A2000-IS after a pretty extensive search. Pictures are excellent, macro works incredibly well, video is clear and smooth as my video camera, and it’s so nice to have a 6X optical camera that will easily fit in my shirt pocket.

Some complained about poor write speeds, and I can tell you at max resolution, max picture size, it takes just about 2 seconds for mine to write. The reason is, I didn’t skimp on the SD card. I bought Sandisk’s 20 MB/s SDHC in 8 GB size. ($47, but $20 rebate) I almost went for their 30 MB/s card ($67) but I figureed 20 was fast enough for me. Now if you stick a $12 Walmart special in, then yea, it will take a while to write the photo to it.

In closing, i your looking for a high quality compact digital camera, you won’t go wrong with this one as long as you don’t feed it crappy SD cards.


Samuel M. Stone

August 9th, 2010 at 5:18 pm    


Overall Rating44444

Right for the price
Rated 4 stars.


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