Canon PowerShot A580

If you're looking for a cheap and cheerful point-and-shoot compact, the Canon PowerShot A580 could be right up your street. With its cute, plastic yet sturdy body and running on AA batteries, it features image stabilisation and 15-second long shutter for...

Accessible controls; decent images

Lacks panache; vanilla feature set; no optical image stabilisation

The chunky, cheery styling isn't to our taste, but the friendly price, accessible controls and respectable image quality pull it out of the bag for this unsophisticated and easy-to-use point-and-shoot

A combination of good picture quality and value for money is always likely to be a winner. The Canon Powershot A580 offers both. This is a 7 megapixel starter camera with a 4x optical zoom lens.

Picture quality - value for money

Shutter lag times with flash

The Powershot A580 offers both picture quality and value for money. If you are looking for a relatively inexpensive digital camera and looks and style are not everything to you then this could be the camera you are looking for.

We have analyzed the reviews for the Canon PowerShot A580 using our BETA review analysis. These are our findings: The Canon PowerShot A580 is very good. Despite scruples with the troublesome design, users are happy with the low price, compact size, and ea...

brilliant battery life, brilliant design, exceptional display, extraordinary ease of use, extraordinary features, brilliant photos, fantastic price, fantastic size.

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