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Canon's popular A Series cameras have always stood out from the competition, but PowerShot A640 takes that concept to a whole new level. Experience breathtaking 10.0 megapixels resolution-a first for an A-Series camera - and the power of a 4x optical zoom lens. You'll have more fun shooting, and make your finished images even more rewarding, with the camera's exciting array of easy-to-use, high-performance features including 21 shooting modes and ISO800/High ISO Auto settings for much greater ability to shoot in low light.

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Memory Type: MultiMediaCard (MMC), Secure Digital (SD) Card, Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Card

LCD Screen Size: 2.5 in

Camera Type: Compact Camera

Megapixels: 10 Megapixel

Lens Mount: Fixed

Optical Zoom: 4

Weight: 8.64

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Product Title: Canon PowerShot A640 10 Megapixel Compact Camera

Manufacturer: Canon

Lowest Price: $640.00 from Amazon.com

Power Score: 4.4 | 12 Reviews

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A Superb Camera!

Strengths: Superb picture quality, swivel lcd screen, almost every function you could ask for. Low image noise and still plenty of details in the pictures.

Weakness: Lack of I.S. (image stabilisation). Maybe a bit pricy.

I bought this camera 2 days ago and sold my old PowerShot a620 to a friend. Compared to the a620 this camera has made small improvements in many areas. Feels sturdier and more solid then the a620. The memorycard is under the battery-cover now - the cover also feels more solid. This camera really shines when it comes to picture quality. Colors are nice and saturated and pictures are tack sharp and...
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By onkelthomp - Sep 29, 2006

The best I have used so far

Strengths: 10M pixels; Twistable 2.5" LCD; First class quality pictures.

Weakness: Maybe the absence of Image Stabilization (does not bother me).

My former camera was Nikon Coolpix 4500; my daughter uses canon PS S2 IS; my son uses Olympus E-330, so I am a bit familiar with Canon and beyond. I am not really a professional, and have some experience working with PhotoShop and Aperture. I have just purchased the A640, and the first impression is fantastic, in full accord with previous reports here and elsewhere. Easy to use, law noise, and an...
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By ProfAD - Oct 4, 2006

Basically an A610 with twice the MP and 8x the storage

Strengths: ...it's an A610 with twice the MP :) and a few more features, a cleaner ISO400, PC control, SDHD.

Weakness: The 10MP with 3x zoom is a poor mans' substitute for a real 6x zoom 5MP camera. Will tolerate mild cropping at best.

I own an A610 (which I love) and I got my hands on an A640 today. It's the same camera just with more pixels. Images look almost exactly the same ignoring the digital magnification, ISO400 is a little cleaner on the A640, but it is definitely slower than the A610. 1-100s vs 1-125s at ISO100, for example. This will get worse as you decrease EV or increase ISO. Of course you get a major magnification benefit from the A640 (plus the ability to shoot from a PC, and ISO800, and SDHD)...but other than that I really couldn't see any difference, even at 100%. It doesn't have the same exposure problem as the A620, the exposure was fine, with the noise grain more obvious of course because of the increased resolution. The files were 75% bigger at the same image-quality setting and it was black instead of silver. The motor whine was the same, but I had to open the battery door to get the SD card out (and that is a pain as it is much harder to open the battery door than the dedicated card door on the A610/A620). If you are a casual shooter I don't see much reason to get it and not the A630. With the A630 you get SDHD and ISO800 too, and the A620 is cheaper and the images are about the same size. The A-series Canons are really made for landscape shooting, they can put a lot of pixels on a subject and they will give great landscape shots, but you would not want to use it as a substitute for a long zoom on a camera with only 5MP, say. I'll post some high-zoom crops...you'll get the picture.
I rated it as "very good-would purchase again" only because it's not actually mine...I purposely avoided buying this camera, I bought an A610 off eBay and then an A620 from (an Internet store which shall go nameless), for under $400 total. Why? So I could have a backup for my A610, which I got for $185 on eBay 6 months ago, but with approximately the same image size as the A640, without paying too much of a price in terms of shooting speed. The A610 is that good at what it does well, and what it doesn't do well, I don't really need to do. I suspect that if you take a lot of landscape shots and if you don't mind shooting from a rest when it gets dark, the A610 will do just fine for you. I really have no idea if the extra MP of the A640 has any benefit in a print, I don't have access to a printer capable of anything larger than 8x10 (and if I did, I wouldn't print anything larger, anyway) and I doubt that I could see a difference at that size. On screen, at 100%, the size difference is obvious, but at full-screen they are they same camera, with less noise at ISO400 for the A640. To me this camera really only makes sense if you are going to print very large prints, you have a 10MP display (like, a 2x2 array of 1600x1200 monitors...another reason to buy the A630 instead), or you intend to control it by computer. Or, if someone gave it to me :) But I am going to return my A620 as I am not happy with the images coming off of it...they are ok...but the exposure is not all that great. The A640 seems to work better (maybe that is why the A620 that I bought was refurbed). If you want to see test shots, go look at my A610 review. I put up a *LOT* of test shots there.

By touristguy87 - May 22, 2007

Good, but not great camera.

Strengths: Swivel LCD screen, good picture.

Weakness: I expected at least more sharpness.

As a long time Canon user I had high expectations on this camera. I needed to replace my Canon PowerShot S50 that went kaput after about 3 years of careful use. I was upset at Canon because I expected a longer life for my S50 -after all I paid more than $600 for it brand new- and I took great care of it. Canon costumer service is a joke, they couldn't care less for you and your camera, so I...
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By Sherkan1 - Nov 24, 2006

BRILLIANT

Strengths: EXCELLENT

Weakness: NONE THAT I CAN THINK OFF

THIS IS A FABULOUS LITTLE DIGITAL CAMERA WITH A MASSIVE 10 MEGAPIXELLS IT IS SO SIMPLE TO USE IN BOTH AUTO AND MANUAL MODES, AND THE 10 MEGA QUALITY IS SIMPLY FANTASTIC, IT HAS A BRILLIANT ARRAY OF FEATURES AND IT HAS NEVER CEASED TO AMAZE ME SINCE I PURCHASED IT RECENTLY.........OH!!!! AND THE VIDEO QUALITY IS OF A VERY HIGH STANDARD GET RID OF ALL THOSE OLD FASHIONED 5-6 MEGA CAMERAS, DO...
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By 1VOYAGER1 - Sep 28, 2006

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