Their design of these 2 digital cameras is user friendly and well-built, the pictures are great, and they’re easy to shoot. Comparing to A530 and A540, A630 and A640 equips with Vari-angle 2.5 inch LCD screen that flips outward and rotates which allows users to take photos for themselves or some close up subjects much easier. At the highest size and finest mode you can see your subjects finest details and also obtain high quality A4 and A3 prints. The optical viewfinder helps to save battery life by turning off the LCD display. Red-eye continues to be a problem in the Canon A series and noise at high ISO. No sign of image stabilisation and dust reduction to these models.
Functions:
• Shooting Modes: auto, program auto, shutter priority, aperture priority, continuous shooting, macro, full manual
• Scene Modes: Portrait, Landscape, and Night Scene + Special Scene (Sports, Foliage, Show, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium, Underwater, Indoor, Kids and Pets, Night Snapshot) + Panorama
• Effects: My Colors Mode and Color Swap Mode
• White balance: Auto, Cloudy, Daylight, Fluorescent, Incandescent, Manual
• Metering: Spot, Center-Weighted, and Evaluative
• Movie Mode: 640×480 (VGA) movies at 3 fps up to 36 minutes long (still limited…)
Technical Data:
• 2.5 inch LCD
• 10 megapixels A640, 8 megapixels A630
• 4x optical zoom + 4x digital
• 35-140mm (35mm equivalent) lens
• Aperture: f/2.8 to f/4.1
• Power-on: 1.4 sec
• Shutter Lag: 0.060 sec
• Shutter Speed: 1/2.500 – 15 sec
• ISO range: 80-800
• 9 point AiAF autofocus system
• Self-timer: 2, 10 sec, custom timer
• SD Card memory storage
• 4x AA batteries
• Optional Accessories: Waterproof Case, Conversion Lens Adaptor LA-DC58F, Tele-Conversion lens (1.75x) TC-DC58N, Wide Converter (0.7x) WC-DC58N, AC Adaptor Kit ACK-600 (contains CA-PS500), High Power Flash HF-DC1
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