Pentax Optio A40 Digital Camera

Pros: Photo bliss. Extremely easy, many control options, high end features at a rock bottom price.
Cons: None. For this price range you can't get anything better.

This is a somewhat late review, since Canon have released newer versions already. However I felt lik ...

Pros: More features than you will ever need for a point and shoot.
Cons: Lag time in focusing is sometimes lengthy.

My wife has taken many photography classes and loves to play in the dark room with her pictures. This camera can give her pictures a run for her money. The only drawback is that printers are either too expensive to print out the pictures or they just...

Pros: Easy to use, many settings
Cons: heavier than most, shutter lag

Having owned this A40 over a year I have put it through its paces. It takes great photos, has good software, and travels with me where ever I go. You will definitely need to buy a bigger CF card. I also recommend buying rechargables and avoid using...

Pros: Excellent image quality, good battery life.
Cons: Menu system can be a bit confusing, only comes with 8 megs of flash.

I purchased this camera over the summer and I must say that for under 300 bucks, this camera sure takes excellent pictures.

I found the features and menus difficult to master at first, but once I did learn about them, I found that the quality...

Pros: Awesome Photo Quality, Great Features, Movie Mode, Advanced Camera Features
Cons: only 8 MB media included, drains regular AA batteries quickly

After a few weeks in research, both on the Web and on brick and mortar stores, I finally came to the conclusion that the Canon A40 was the best choice for me. I was looking for a 2+ MP $300 dollar camera that offered point-and-shoot ease of use for my...

Pros: Video quality with audio Image quality Battery Life
Cons: I have not come up with any.

I bought this camera to replace my RCA CDS4100 since my computer had Windows XP and I wanted to be able to take advantage of both the Operating System and the cameras capabilities. I was very impressed with the camera right away. The quality of the ...

Pros: Excellent picture quality,ability to adjust settings manually,and no more film to develop !!!!
Cons: Cons ?,Cons ?, Seriously,I have only minor gripes with small C/F card supplied.

Welcome to the end of days for film as we knew it. I for one have been waiting for this day since my local camera store lost my Bahama vacation pictures with Alyssa Milano.

Ok not really, but you get the picture (pun intended).
Let's...

Pros: Excellent resolution, easy to use, lots of options, good video component, adjustable flash
Cons: Small memory card included

I got this camera for my birthday and use it mainly for amateur artistic photography. I don't have any complaints about it. It is easy to hold and doesn't suck batteries dry. It has a lot of different settings for taking pictures:

Sepia/Vivid/B&W, etc
Resolutions
Exposure
Flash intensity

... and even more that I haven't tried to experiment with yet. The one problem you might have with this camera is that it doesn't come with a large enough SD card. You will have to buy one to take more than 10-20 high-res photos. I have a 256 mg SD card that will hold several minutes of video PLUS pictures from the camera.

Pros: Sturdy, easy to use, well-priced
Cons: The shutter speed is just a shade slow

I bought this camera in October of 2002 at the advice of the guy in the electronics store. Not being much of a photographer, I needed something easy and well-priced. When I bought this, it was around $250.00.

This camera is by far the best camera purchase I've ever made, hands-down, even including regular film cameras. The menu is intuitive and the buttons are pretty well-placed for ease of use. It has a 3x zoom lens, but you can get up to 7.5x digital zoom. Honestly, there are so many features to this camera that I haven't even mastered them all yet. It was comparably priced to a lesser-known brand (can't even remember it now), and I haven't regretted this purchase for a single moment.

I've taken this camera in my bag without a protective case several times, and I'll admit that it's been dropped once or twice, but it has never stopped working. The battery life is excellent, too. Now that the market offers higher megapixels and cameras with steadying technology, I keep thinking I should go shopping for a new one, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with my A40!

Pros: Durable, Good Quality, Nice Pictures
Cons: Slow shutter reaction, poorly documented manual features.

I originally bought this camera when I was expecting my first child, about 2 years ago. I have almost 1000 photos from this camera.
The photo quality is superb, zoom feature is good, and the camera's reasonably easy to use.
I do have a few complaints
My biggest complaint is that the camera often takes an excessively long time to snap a shot. We're talking seconds here. Now that may not seem like much until you try taking a quick shot of your kid doing something really cute. In the time it takes the camera to realize I really do want to take a picture, the moment is lost.
The video recording is nice, but wish I could get longer than 15 second clips.
It has some good manual capabilities, but the owner's manual barely even tells you about them.
Otherwise I'm happy with the camera. It's lived through a few drops. Using high capacity RadioShack rechargeable batteries I get a lot of use between charges. There are many optional accessories available for this camera, including lenses. Frankly, if the camera took quicker shots, I'd keep it for years. But after two years, I'm shopping for a replacement.

Pros: easy to use, great manual capabilities, good materials, great colors, good price, uses AA batts.
Cons: Small LCD.

I brought this camera 4 years ago, and i want to state that the LCD makes a lots of noise, but is still taking great pictures. The canon cameras are easy of use, have great colors, and good materials, so the day this camera die, im going for another canon.

Pros: Price, software, photo quality, low-light performance, durability
Cons: Short videos (20 sec max), but they stitch together great!

Let me preface this review with some background; Ive been into photography for over 30 years using Pentax K1000, Olympus OM-1, Contarex, Leica, Hasselblad film cameras and Olympus, Canon, Pentax, and Nikon digitals. I've owned the Powershot A-40 for almost two years and use it all the time- skiing, snowshoeing, cycling, motorcycling, hiking. The photo quality is excellent and the video is good enough for my purposes. I have printed photos at 8 X 10 on photo paper using my Epson 760 printer, and the quality was incredible! I took a seies of videos of my son skiing then used a video editor to stitch them together into one. The Canon software is far better than the Olympus software that I use at work. It's far easier to navigate and is more intuitive. The camera has been banged around, dropped, gotten wet (slightly) and still works flawlessly. I would recommend NiMh rechargeable batteries and a 128 MB card.

Pros: Price, picture quality, available accessories
Cons: a bit of a learning curve on pro features

Wow. This is a great camera. Picture quality is awesome in all modes. This can be easy for the beginner and powerful for a pro. Lots of great settings and options. Kit is complete with everything you need.

Pros: Fairly goof proof. Reasonably priced. Seems pretty robust.
Cons: Manual is mind boggling. Shutter is slow so no good for rapid action shots.

Very easy to use. Very comprehensive features including video with sound. Picture quality is excellent even at low resolution. Even the kids can take good photos with this one! BUT: Definitely buy a larger memory card (32MEG minimum) and get rechargable batteries - seems to last heaps longer on rechargables (NiMH)than Alkalines for some reason. Flash isn't very powerful in larger spaces.

Pros: easy to use,good quality
Cons: none that i have found yet

after spending most of my 2003 spring holiday finding the perfect camera for me (amateur) i chose this one.
very chuffed with the overall package. best purchase i have ever made considering price, quality & ease of use