Canon PowerShot A540 Digital Camera

Pros: Very good image quality, 4X optical zoom, large 2.5" LCD screen, and AA batteries
Cons: Grainy LCD screen, redeye, some corner softness, and minor chromatic aberration (purple fringing)

Canon's A series digital cameras have been number one in U. S. sales for the last three years because they dependably provide consumers with impressive ease of use, exceptional performance, superb ergonomics, tough as nails durability, excellent ...

Pros: Quality at a good price..large LCD screen, easy to use
Cons: Short battery life..can not figure out a few features

My daughters decided to get me a new camera for my birthday when they noticed I was taping the bottom of my old Nikon Coolpix 885 to keep the battery from falling out. The camera still worked pretty well other than that but it was 4 years old and they ...

Pros: Resolution, uses 2 AA batteries, size, features, manual controls, image quality
Cons: Slow flash recycle, noise at highest ISO settings

Do you like cameras that use two AA batteries? Prefer 6 Megapixels and 2.5-inch LCD screen? Want a camera that is fast in operation and is easy to use? Check out the Canon PowerShot A540. What is Canon PowerShot A540? The Canon PowerShot ...

Pros: Very easy to use, good quality pictures, fun color accent setting, only requires two batteries
Cons: Slow to reset after shooting photo

Purchasing a new digital camera can be intimidating. Because I had a generally positive four years with a Canon A80, I decided to stick with the brand. The gentleman at Best Buy was a major proponent of the Canon PowerShot A540 so I went with ...

Pros: Great picture quality, loads of settings, fantastic P&S, easy to use
Cons: Sometimes slow write speed on non-high speed SD cards

In the past I've always bought digital cameras based solely on price. I would get the best camera I could afford, which ended up getting me a couple of not-very-good cameras. The latest one died in the middle of a lovely evening full of prime photo-ops, ...

Pros: Very easy-to-use menu system, all-manual control possible, large LCD
Cons: Unacceptable image quality at low light levels, grainy LCD, overpriced for what you get

The Canon Powershot A540 a "great camera"? Not so fast. Oh, how I wanted to like the Canon Powershot A540. But the camera had some surprising shortcomings I couldn't overcome. As background, recently I purchased a Nikon D50 digital SLR – a ...

Pros: Good picture quality, movies with sound, AA batteries, good battery life, manual adjustments, optical viewfinder
Cons: LCD has low resolution and doesn't show purple, long flash recycle time

With so many choices, how did I end up with a Canon A540? Read this review, learn some interesting things, and see how you, too, would end up making the same choice. With the price now below $200, it is hard to beat the A540. CRITERIA I had ...

Pros: Good automatic snapshots, uses AA batteries and SD cards, large LCD screen, optical viewfinder
Cons: Not very compact, mediocre battery life, slow flash recharge

The Canon A540 is yet another new model (Feb 2006 release) in Canon’s highly-successful A series, aimed at amateur photographers who want some advanced shooting capabilities beyond a basic low-cost snapshot camera. The current A series models run on ...

Pros: Great Pictures for Amatuers, Easy To Use and Reliable
Cons: Eats Batteries

I'll be the first to say that I am far from an expert on any item in electronics. When I went to make my decision on a digital camera I did my fair share of studying here at Epinions and elsewhere. Through this research I quickly decided that I should ...

Pros: ease of use, large LCD, easy to understand manual, quality of images, beta quality
Cons: 16 MB memory card, AV/upload slot tag

If you read my review on the PowerShot A530, you will know why I now have a A540. I use my digital camera on a daily basis. It is contantly nearby. I want dependability, ease of use, good hand feel, portability and photo quality in a digital. ...

Pros: Light, easy to manage, user-friendly controls and wonderful results.
Cons: Chinzy plug cover and a useless 16MB card included in the retail box.

I began, years back, with Canon's Powershot A20 2MP), then promoted myself up to the A70 (3.2MP) about two year ago. Three days ago, I received my newest self-indulgence: the new Powershot A540 (6MP). So far, I have used it to take 40=50 shots, indoors ...

Pros: Easy to use, ready right out of the box
Cons: Uses batteries very quickly

It was great to open this camera on Christmas morning and find a small memory card and batteries in the box. The camera was totally ready to use right away. The last time I bought a digital camera it was a horrible experience, and this has been just ...

Pros: 6.0 Mega pixel Digital Camera, Digital zoom up to 4x, 16MB
Cons: Canon memory card; SD compatible, Real-image zoom Viewfinder, 2.5-inch P-Si LCD

This camera is designed to achieve excellent performance for times when you want to save those unforgettable moments. I Own a this camera and every time I have a party, or a family reunion I love to take pictures of the people I love, or even when ...

Pros: Takes really good pictures, great quality pictures, easy to use.
Cons: If your camera shakes or the lighting is to dark pictures are blurry.

I own a Canon PowerShot A540 digital camera. It is easy to use and I love it. It takes great pictures and was worth the $150 that I paid for it. I wanted a digital camera to take place of my film camera and I get better quality pictures than I do with ...

Pros: Makes good continuous Videos with audio
Cons: Takes time to reset

Canon PowerShot A540 Digital Camera is a very good camera which I take to almost every place I go. I have 2 kids and I like to take their pictures a lot. I have been using this camera from almost like one year. I bought it for the last year thanksgiving. ...

Pros: Uses Normal AA-Batteries, You can program Shutter Speeds to avoid blurry pictures, Has 4x-Optical Zoom.
Cons: No Built in Internal memory.

We have had this camera for about 1-year. I find that I utilize it more and more instead of my digital SLR camera because it is so small and convenient to carry. I have even taken family portraits with this for some friends and their families ...

Pros: Excellent image quality, easy to use, 2 AA batteries, great zoom feature
Cons: The port cover is poorly engineered, the card/battery door is fragile

I have been using this camera for over a year now and absolutely love it! As a very active photographer and an eBay seller, this camera gets used a lot. It goes horseback riding, kayaking and beaching. It has been dropped, banged around in saddle ...

Pros: Easy to use, especially on Auto Setting! Excellent photos at close range
Cons: Eats batteries like candy! Not the best choice for action or fast moving sports shots

This is my first purchase of any digital camera and after some research on this site and others, and relying on the Canon brand name, I am overall pleased with my purchase of the Canon Power Shot A540, which I paid about 240.00 for I believe last summer. ...

Pros: It is so Easy to use. It takes common AA batteries.
Cons: The camera manual is no help when it comes to using it

I received this camera as a Christmas gift last year. It was my first digital camera. I fell in love with the easy way to use this camera. It is so easy to use. Takes great photos and short videos. It has a 6.0 mega pixels and 4X optical zoom. It has ...

Pros: Cost, ease of use
Cons: Size, photo software

I read a number of reviews before buying this camera, and I'm pleased to see that all those who had positives to share about it were right. I can't imagine being happier with any other one out there right now. The price was right, especially for one ...

Pros: Ease of manual controls, high quality pictures for web and prints, many complements.
Cons: Red eye(which can be fixed w/software provided).

I purchased this camera about 4 months ago, and I've taken over 200 pictures with it. No problems so far at all. I love it. It's pretty self explanatory, with a quick read of the manual. I was taking pictures within an hour. I took it on several trips, ...

Pros: As easy to use as any other camera in this category.
Cons: Do Not Buy!!! Battery compartment is too small for rechargeable batteries!!!

This camera is very user friendly, but so are most in this category. Only one flaw, which I feel makes it a "Do Not Buy" camera, is the battery compartment. It is so small and tight, that rechargeable batteries with a thick cover will not fit.
Do Not Buy! Find a camera that will easily accept rechargeable batteries!

Pros: small and light
Cons: zoom dont work that good

This is a really nice camera it takes clear pics and really cool and light weight and small dont take much space

Pros: 4x optical zoom, motion with audio, large lcd, SD card
Cons: Recharge on flash slow - but what camera isn't?

I've had this camera and have used it for about three weeks. It is feature rich. There is nothing else in the price range with a 4x optical zoom/6 mp that can offer such a range of use - from beginner to advanced. I did my homework on this one. The movie picture with audio is a real plus. This gives you the ability to take high quality stills and not have to lug a video camera along for the motion shots (unless you wanted to do extended motion). My previous camera is a Pentax Optio 3.2 mp. Much harder to use and controls are built for tiny fingers. No audio on motion shots either. So I graduated up to 6 mp; doubled the quality for a camera that costs less than half of what the Pentax cost 3 years ago.
The SD memory card the Powershot takes is the smallest and least expensive. I picked up a 1GB card on sale at Officemax for $15.00 and it gives me over 1500 pictures and lots of room in movie mode.
Hope my review helps you in your decision.

Pros: Easy to Use, Video with Sound, Features, Easy to Use
Cons: None so Far

I bought this camera last month, and so far I've had absolutely no problems.
Before this I owned a Fujifilm Finepix A205, which quit suddenly for no obvious reason. That camera had only 2 megapixels, so the 6 megapixels on this Camera is wonderful!
I bought this camera mainly for the features it had. I've tried almost all of them, and I am completely happy with the results. It was worth the money I paid.

Pros: Great photos, amazing features, low price!
Cons: Flash is too close to the corner and can easily be obstructed by a finger.

When looking for a new camera, I wanted a camera that took stellar photos but also had point and shoot convenience. The first thing that impressed me about the A540 was its small size and feel. This camera easily fits in my jacket pocket and real easy to use. The case is also pretty sturdy unlike my old Kodak Digital Camera that literally fell apart after a year. Second, the photos are absolutely amazing! The auto-set feature selects the best mode possible for the shoot and makes taking great pictures in any light. For the true photo enthusiasts, you can manually set the camera to just about any setting imaginable. This camera is great for both amateurs and experienced photographers.
The camera can also shoot digital video that is of pretty good quality. You can also adjust the resolution of the video to save memory space or have great quality.

The camera offers an amazing amount of features for the price. I strongly recommend this camera.

Pros: image, quick to shoot, easy to operate, price
Cons: should have bigger screen, but is better than some.

After reviewing the comments left here, I bought this Canon and love it. It is easy to use and takes awesome pictures. They print without being grainy and very focused. I have to delete very few, usually because i didn't set it for the lighting, because it seems to take good pics in all sorts of conditions. I dropped it a few weeks after I got it, which is usually the end of a camera for me. But to my surprise it didn't wreck it at all. Couldn't ask for a better low price camera. I have had mine about 9 months and can't believe I went so long without it.

Pros: It was a good little "point and shoot" camera in the beginning.
Cons: Canon's customer service makes its products worthless.

I am amazed that there are so many glowing reports when thousands of owners have experienced a fatal flaw with the lens. Canon refuses to stand behind its product in spite of a threatened class action suit by disgusted customers. Don't purchase any Canon products. Questions, Google Canon A540 lens error!

Pros: Awesome battery life, great pictures, easy to use
Cons: LCD quality could be better

I've been using this camera for a month and it is perfect!
I couldn't wish for more.

Battery life is AWESOME!! I can't understand why some people complain about it. I bought 2600MAh rechargeable batteries and they last very long. Some days ago I took 630 photos and 220 of them were taken with flash on without changing the batteries. and LCD was always on!! And pictures were playbacked several times!! It is fantastic!!

LCD quality is quite poor but it's not a big problem.

Pictures are great! Taken outdoors they are fantastic, indoors they are ok especially with flash on.

In low light conditions pictures could be better. They are quite grainy but with software it is easy to edit them.

Manual controls and manual focus is a great pro. :)

I'm more than just satisfied with this camera!!

Pros: Features - you can take video and still shots.
Cons: The batteries seem to die quickly.

I bought this camera just before my son was born and it's great! It is very reliable and easy to use. In my experience, the batteries seem to die quickly. I bought rechargeable batteries and haven't had a single problem with this camera. I would strongly recommend this camera to anyone!

Pros: Good quality, reasonable price, great for taking pictures of things that wont sit still
Cons: Several seconds between pictures in dark settings

We bought this camera to take pictures of a two year old and our dog. We liked that there is a kid/pets setting that you can set it to. It takes fast pictures without being blurry. Picture quality is good. Easy to use features and takes nice video clips.

Pros: compact size, photo quality, easy to use
Cons: Time to be ready after flash is used

I had a Canon A520 that I just upgraded to the A540 and it takes amazing shots. I take tons of photos both of people and when I travel and this camera takes great photos! I took photos of the fireworks on the 4th of July and they look professional! Would highly recommend it!

Pros: Nice design and clarity, battery life is good
Cons: May be complicated to figure out at first, possible distortions with moving images.

It took me a while to find out how to use it but after it was fun to work with. When the camera is still, it can take amazing photographs. It can have distortions in the pictures, but not a bad camera at all. Battery life is moderate, would recommend to use rechargable batteries if taking hundreds of pictures monthly. Plain batteries may not work with this model. Nice design and was worth spending $220 for, was easy to transfer photos and have multiple formats for good, better, or superb quality. Have taken over 7000 photos, recharged about 12-18 times, not too savy.

Pros: Good color rendition when the camera worked...which wasn't for long.
Cons: Very poor battery life. Product failed completely and Canon would not honor warranty.

Had problems with this camera almost right from the start. First, it would only take about 15-20 pictures before indicating that batteries were low. After a few months use, the camera would power up but would not take a picture when the shutter release was depressed. Sent the camera to Canon factory warranty service center. After having the camera for about 2 weeks, they informed me that there was "white liquid" in the camera, stating that it appeared the camera may have been dropped in salt water. The camera has never been out of my possession, and has never been misused in any way whatsoever. My experience is that Canon's warranty isn't worth the price of the paper it's printed on. I am out $200 for a camera that didn't even last a year. It will be the last purchase of ANY Canon product that I will ever make. Ever.