"I initially looked at Canon A510, Canon A520, Canon A95, Nikon 5900, Nikon 5600, Fuji's F440 and F450 and decided on the Canon A520. The big thing for me was the great image quality it has, great optical zoom (4x instead of 3x for most other cameras in this price range with 4 mega pixels), nice and compact BUT not too small and the manual controls that it has. This was my 1st digital camera for myself and I take a lot of nature photography and let me say that it is great for that. I also took many indoor shots with low light conditions and they did pretty well. Our living room is dark and cozy (with dark red walls) and it still focused quite well and tookpretty good pictures WITHOUT the flash.Don't pay any attention to those out there that want to complain about it's lag time between pictures..etc. Unless you absolutely need to take a lot of continuous framepictures the lag time that this camera has is acceptable. I'm not trying to take 10 pictures in a minute anyhow. Look if you want to take pictures of your kid in soccer or something go get a camcorder. besides you can film the whole game that way and they usually have better zoom capabilities than digital cameras. Besides I would rather watch a soccer video instead of a few continuous frames photos.Batteries since the A520 has only 2 AA instead of the A95 having 4 AA's, I HIGHLY recommend getting rechargeables - you should get them anyhow!! Make sure you get a camera case that has room for an extra 2-4 AA's depending on how many pics you take at a time. I bought a pack of Energizer 2500 mAh (mili Amp hours a term telling you how much punch or power a battery has. The higher the mAh is the better it is for devices like digital cameras, pda's etc. Only Kodak and Energizer have a 2500 mAh although there are some no name brands out there with a little higher ratings. I've used other batteries but these Energizers are really good and last a lot longer than my previous 1800 mAh. Just watch out for getting newer mAh batteries because you will need a newer type charger than will load the batteries up to that capacity.Good Luck!!

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Canon PowerShot A520 Digital Camera

Great entry level digital camera with great image quality and optical zoom

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