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There is also a wide range of scene modes which give you leverage of photography in a range of conditions. a special ‘My Colors’ menu offer effects such as Light or Dark skin, Vivid or Neutral and other custom color adjustments.

The A530 from Canon also offers an excellent underwater scene mode that helps you adjust color balance and exposure for the same. The camera also offers a 1.8inch LCD screen, optical zoom view finder and a self timer. The optical zoom viewfinder focuses better in dark conditions thus saving battery. The camera also has a built in flash and an auto flash and the regular features like red eye reduction are also provided.

The Canon A530 comes with a 16MB SD card and storage can be upgraded with either another SD card or a Multi Media card of a higher capacity. The interfaces that the camera offers are a USB 2.0 connector, audio video interface, a Pict Bridge and even a Direct Print which allows you to take print out directly by connecting the camera to a printer.

The continuous shots feature allows you to shoot 2.1 shots per second. The batteries used are the same as the ones in all the other digital cameras of the A series which are AA batteries giving you a battery life of up to five hours.

Although the housing of this digital camera is a bit old fashioned and may not seem very attractive to many but the features are good enough for any average photographer. All in all, it is a good, responsive camera excellent for both still photography and video recording.

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