Canon PowerShot A430 Digital Camera

Pros: Low price, 4x optical zoom, resolution, features, performance, build quality
Cons: Slow flash recharge, during which the screen goes blank, no dedicated zoom control, noise

I liked the last year's 3 .2-Megapixel Canon PowerShot A410 and decided to get an updated version - 4-Megapixel Canon PowerShot A430. I bought my A430 for $144. The prices went down since then and you can get an ...

Pros: Simple, takes good pictures, 4X optical zoom, well made, uses AA batteries
Cons: Slow flash, 16 MB memory card is way too small.

The Canon PowerShot A430 is a simple, rugged and flexible point and shoot camera, that is well suited to kids, first-time digital camera buyers, and as a second camera. While it only has a maximum resolution of 4 megapixels (2272 x 1704), It has extra ...

Pros: Price, Optical Zoom, Built in Microphone and Speaker, Battery (AA), TV out, Scenes
Cons: Battery life, little noise, low quality sound, no aperture and shutter control

Canon A430 is more than beginner level Digital camera at very affordable price. I bought it for Rs:9900 ($165), at this price other good Digital camera manufacturers sells their cameras with less manual options and features, like mega pixels and optical ...

Pros: It takes very good pictures for this low priced camera. Its menus are easily mastered.
Cons: The review screen washes out, Slow flash recharge, has an appetite for batteries.

It does take a very good picture for this quality and low priced camera. Its menus are easily mastered.

I found it odd sized for the shirt pocket, but for Canon to use this plastic for the body seems to degrade their fine name. The review screen washes out in day light, but takes the picture that you see, unlike the view finder that seems offset to the Left. Slow flash recharge, during which the screen goes blank, and storing a picture is terribly slow when batteries are half gone without warning. If your going to a garden party for the day, take a pocket full of batteries, it's heavy on the juice. It used two alkaline AA batteries for 31 pictures at full res. Canon claims 190 at basic and 80 at full size, plus downloaded. I am told that the new Lithium rechargeable AA's will average 300 pictures.

Pros: Great zoom,easy to use, great for any medium to close range shot.GREAT picture!
Cons: Loves batteries but only non-rechargeable.

It's a awesome camera, great for starters! Easy to use and also has great extras in scene and manual mode.

Pros: small and powerful,great printing quality,record mpeg
Cons: take a lot of batteries along with you.

i love to take pictures,and my other camera is to big to take everywhere. I bought this one for less than $140.and i love it..the pictures come out excellent when i print them with the canon selphy,and the camera is small enough to be taken everywhere.It also can record small movies for up to 60 minutes.
if you are looking for an inexpensive digital camera,this one is great,and 4 megapixels are plenty enough.