Introduction:

Designed for personal use, Canon PowerShot A490 is a simple camera with user-friendly features, value-added performance and an intuitive lay out that has less clutter and more utilitarian potential. This camera is neither too small nor big and can be comfortably snuggled into a corner of your pouch. The camera supports a wide range of memory cards-SD/SDHC/SDXC/MMC/MMC Plus Card/HC MMC Plus Cards.

Features:

Being a beginner’s camera, Canon PowerShot A490 has all those special features that will make your shooting experience easy, fast & flawless. Canon’s specially designed Smart AUTO is one such feature that allows the user to deliver stunning pictures irrespective of their technical knowledge and skills. For an added advantage, the user can play and experiment with the available 13 shooting modes meant for various occasions and settings.

Pros:

• The camera packs a 10.0 megapixels resolution which will come in handy while making posters and taking print-outs of magnified size. Without losing quality the user can make posters of 13”x19” with this camera. Capture movies of 640 x 480 resolution with sound with this camera.
• The 3.3x optical zoom lens along with 2.5 LCD of 115k resolution makes it easier to compose and review images. With 3.3x optical zoom lens in your tow you need not worry about distance or location of the objects any more.
• The camera comes equipped with a Low Light Mode specially designed to deal with the hurdles arising while shooting in low-light conditions or during the night. The ISO range 400-3200 offered by this camera creates miracles while working in unison with the Smart Flash Exposure, a feature which ensures that your images receive proper flash and do not exhibit any degradation of quality in spite of poor light.

Cons:

• The user cannot adjust the aperture or the shutter speed in this camera.
• The camera lacks a true optical viewfinder and the built-in microphone picks up noises from surroundings.
• Overall performance of this camera is rather sluggish and the user cannot use optical zoom function while shooting videos.
• Battery life is insufficient and there is no flash exposure compensation feature in this model.

Pricing Range: Grab this budget camera today by paying just $85-$110.Available in Silver!

Final Verdict: Canon PowerShot A490 is a budget camera in the strict sense. Endowed with basic controls alone this camera differs greatly from its expensive sibling A495. The camera performs decently though at a slow pace and does not make any loud claims about its performance. Nice budget camera for beginners!