New Canon A700 and A540
ID in categories: Digital cameras on Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
PMA 2006 International Trade Show, Canon used to presents new cameras in A serie. New Canon A700 6.0 Mpix 6x optical zoom camera with huge 2.5” LCD display, and Canon A540 also 6.0 Mpix 4x optical zoom and also 2.5” LCD display. Canon PS A540 the heir of America’s best selling model in 2005 Canon PS A510.
Both cameras have same CCD sensor with 6.0 Mpix things that separates them are used lence, resolution of LCD display,type of viewfinder and few options in software. Both cameras provides fast USB 2.0 computer interface so there is no more waitting to transfer picutures like with old A510/520.
Also one of the improvements from old serie is ISO 800 which alows you flexibility while shooting in low light conditions without flash, also it alows you to use shorter shutter speeds increasing image sharpness, reducing motion blur from fastmoving objects and shaky hands. Great Canon DIGIC II image processor is used in both cameras alowing fast shooting 2fps for A700 and 2.3fps for A540 and low noise on pictures taken with hi ISO settings. Maximum resolution is 2816×2112.
There is hard job infront these two cameras, to beat selling results of great predecessors. Improved resolution, imaging prosessor, zoom, larger display, I think that we have a winner.
Soon we will have exhaustive tests of these cameras, so stay tuned…
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January 22nd, 2007 at 3:37 pm
[…] The Canon announced successors of digital cameras in entry class. Canon A class offers maximum possibilities in compact case. All cameras in Canon A class have been designed with ease of use firmly in mind. New Canon A550 is a successor of the last years bestseller Powershot A530/A540. Comparing to previous model, new one is bringing new optical sensor with 7.1 Mpix, new lens with 4x optical zoom, large two inch display, a redesigned controls. Also two new cameras are presented in lowest price range, A450 and A460 replacing the previous A420 and A430, both cameras have 5.0 Mpix optical sensor and large 2.0 inch diagonal display. The A450 is using 3.2x optical zoom lens, while A460 is using 4x zoom lens, which is basically only difference between them. All three cameras have DIGIC II Canon image processor, witch is no surprising in lowest A4xx class, but honestly I was expecting newly developed DIGIC III image processor ( already presented in Canon EOS 400D and Powershot G7 ). Obviously this is no revolution, Canon produced tree more great cameras to substitute three great cameras. There are just enough improvements to stand out from last years model and nothing more. For now all eyes are on the next camera that will come from Canon ( A560 ) it should implement new version of DIGIC processor witch is more able to confront demanding processing image data from small sized sensor packed up with megapixels. All tree cameras are expected in the stores during February. […]