Even one of the best selling digital cameras online, can be a real lemon for the uninformed consumer. Before you get overwhelmed with all the glowing online testimonials for the Canon Powershot A570IS, you need to remember a few things. First of all, remember that the world wide web is the biggest marketplace since the dawn of humankind, and practically everyone is trying to sell you something. Secondly, reviews written by consumers who have already bought the A570IS, have already convinced themselves that they did the right thing by buying the camera. Very few of them would ever admit to making a dumb decision, and throwing their money away. It's just human nature. So, with all that in mind, let's critically examine, all the reasons why you shouldn't touch the Powershot A570IS by Canon with a ten foot pole.
Batteries are the scourge of this age of gadgets, and the Powershot A570IS is one of the major offenders. This thing chews through batteries like crazy. Customers have been reporting problems with the A570IS draining batteries after taking as few as 20 pictures. Canon claims you should be able to get about 130 pictures with regular alkaline batteries. It seems pretty much impossible these days, to get a camera under $300 with a decent rechargeable battery pack. Batteries are becoming the printer cartridges of the camera world. The first thing most salesman in camera shops try to up sell you on these days is rechargeable batteries and a recharger. You can of course, turn the display screen off, and only take pictures with the viewfinder to save battery life. Some customers I've heard from even take the batteries out of the camera when not using it, as the camera will drain batteries just sitting there. While these practices may help, they're also a bit of a nuisance for the customer.
Another major drawback of this camera is the long delay time between taking pictures. You may have to wait as long as ten seconds in between pictures while the flash recharges. This can of course lead to missing a lot of great pictures. How often does the first picture you take turn out perfectly? Often the subject moves, or someone / something gets in the way, or the lighting isn't quite right. Being able to click the shutter a number of times in succession, greatly increases your chances of getting that perfect shot. While the A570IS has a lot of great features, Canon seems to have greatly under designed the amount of battery power required to run the camera.
Other consumer problems reported include:
- Screen is very difficult to see in daylight.
- Viewfinder is not always accurate.
- Face recognition feature is flawed and works about 20% of the time.
- Camera tends to take a softer (blurry?) studio portrait type image.
- Comes with a SD memory card, that's too small to be practical and needs to be upgraded.
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