Canon PowerShot A580 Specifications

By Rich Trenholm on 19/06/2008

More Canon reviews , RRP: AU$199.00

The good:

  • Accessible controls
  • Decent images

The bad:

  • Lacks panache
  • Vanilla feature set
  • No optical image stabilisation

The bottomline:

The Canon PowerShot A580's chunky, cheery styling isn't to our taste, but the friendly price, accessible controls and respectable image quality pull it out of the bag for this unsophisticated and easy-to-use point-and-shoot camera.

Editors' rating:

6.2/10

Users' rating:

9/10

Audio

  • Built-in microphone
  • Yes

Battery

  • Battery type(s)
  • 2 x AA

Camera

  • Optical sensor
  • CCD
  • Megapixels
  • 8 megapixels
  • Light sensitivity
  • ISO 80, ISO 100, ISO 200, ISO 400, ISO 800, ISO 1600
  • White balance
  • Automatic, Custom, Presets
  • Lens aperture
  • f/2.6-5.5
  • LCD display size
  • 2.5 inch
  • Flash type
  • Built-in
  • Tripod Mount
  • Built-in
  • Optical zoom
  • 4 x
  • Focal length
  • 35-140mm

General

  • Camera Type
  • Digital compact
  • Dimensions (H x W x D)
  • 64.7 x 94.3 x 40.8 mm
  • Weight
  • 175 g
  • Available colours
  • Silver

Still images

  • Still image format
  • JPEG
  • Still image resolution (max)
  • 3,264 x 2,448 pixels

Storage

  • Storage type(s)
  • Secure Digital Card, Secure Digital High Capacity
  • Internal memory
  • MB

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  • Video capture format(s)
  • AVI (Motion JPEG)
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