Canon PowerShot A560

usability, price, performance, image quality, portability

durability, viewfinder

100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

price, usability, performance, exposure, flash

94% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Bedienbarkeit, Leistung, Größe, Preisleistungsverhältnis, Bildschirm

Verarbeitungsqualität, Portabilität, Fokus

85% der Kundenmeinungen auf Amazon.de bewerten dieses Produkt positiv.

100% des avis sur Amazon.fr donnent une note favorable à ce produit.

Brilliantly low noise, Great colour, Speedy, Face Detect

Pictures a little on the soft side, Some haloing, Burst mode not quite on par with other models

Another strong entry into the compact camera market by Canon, the A560 produces similarly high quality pictures to its sister model, the A550, and this time around they have packed in Face Detect, which will be a big selling point for some users.

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Responsive performance; slightly above-average lens.

Images plagued with artifacts and fringing; extremely noisy at high ISO settings.

This camera's solid performance can help you forget that it doesn't have many bells or whistles.

High resolution with excellent image quality ; Face-detection focus mode is very handy, works well (defaults to 9-point AF if no faces are found) ; 4x zoom lens is longer than many in the category and offers excellent coverage ; Very good exposure...

Documentation comes in two separate booklets, making it a pain to look things up ; While large, LCD resolution is on the low side ; No manual control of aperture or shutter speed ; Slow flash recycle (10 seconds!) ; Continuous mode shooting is on the...

Excellent 14.2MP sensor ; In body image stabilization ; Stellar battery life ; Fast burst mode rates ; Speedy performance overall ; Good high ISO performance and dynamic range ; Multi-Frame Noise Reduction ISO setting ; Auto HDR was very good, now even...

Sweep Panorama needs improving ; Creaking in grip ; Buffer depth is limited, especially when shooting RAW ; Phase Detection Auto Focus a bit hit and miss sometimes (could be limited to copies sent by Sony) ; Multi-Frame shooting can sound like a racket...

The Depth of Field Preview button is also an important inclusion, heretofore conspicuously absent from the A200, A300, and A500 Alpha models, and its return is welcome. Slick tricks like Sweep Panorama and Handheld Twilight are quite useful modes that...

Generally good color accuracy; Very sharp images overall

Ineffective noise reduction; Flip-out LCD is awkward in use

The Sony Alpha A560 is an interesting SLR: we found that it had good overall performance and was easy to use. But there are a few issues that hold it back: the flip-out LCD screen is useful, but a little awkward to use and doesn’t have the same freedom...