Canon Powershot A480 Digital Camera

Canon Powershot A480 Digital Camera

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Hey everybody, welcome back to ComputerTV.

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I'm Sam and today I am not only here

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with this Canon Powershot, this is the A480,

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I'm also here with Albert. I brought him here,

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he's going to be my model today.

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I was thinking I would just jump in

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in the back of her video, make a bunch of silly faces

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to distract her but then producer Dan told me to sit down

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and now I'm sitting down.

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I don't even know anything about this camera.

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Well don't worry, I'll tell you all about it.

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Well you guys know Canon, it's a great brand

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and this is a perfect camera for beginners.

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It's not too complicated to use,

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it's really simple to point and shoot

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and it has just enough features

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to really take amazing quality pictures.

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In fact it's 10 megapixel, it's also a 3.3x optical zoom

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but also has a 4x digital zoom,

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oh you're going to take a picture of me?

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Oh, taking a picture.

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Also has motion detection, face detection,

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red eye correction, ISO 1600 capabilities.

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Wow, just taking pictures of everybody over here.

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Has a really good battery life,

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in fact I went on a couple of websites

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and I'm just looking for reviews for this camera

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and they said it was really durable. I don't know about you

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I drop my digital camera everywhere,

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like it's always on the floor.

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Does that happen to you a lot? Do you drop your camera?

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I carry a DSLR with a huge lens and stuff

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so if I drop it, I'll drop myself off a building

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right after because it costs more than my yearly salary.

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Got it, well I have a very basic point and shoot camera,

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kind of like this one, and I drop it all the time

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so it's good to know that this one is durable.

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It also takes excellent quality, you have that 10 megapixels,

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so you're really going to get some crystal clear images.

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Definitely feels durable. - Yeah.

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Wouldn't want to test it too much

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but it feels quite durable, very well built I'll say.

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And it has two colors, this silver

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and then up top is the white.

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I like that dual color stylish look you can see,

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very nice looking. Also has 15 shooting modes

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including 12 special scene modes.

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And it also has photo effects

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already built in to the camera

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so you can make your photos you know sepia,

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or white and black without having to plug into a PC.

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White and black, did I just say white and black?

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I think you meant to say black and white...

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Black and white.

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...the same thing though.

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I think it is the same thing. - You called it SEpia too,

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isn't it sepia? - Oh no, no it's SEpia.

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I thought it was sepia.

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Oh well I've always called it SEpia.

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Well, now we have a problem.

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Alright so, let's take a closer look at this thing.

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Power button is up here, nice and simple.

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Turn it over, you've got a 2.5 LCD screen right here.

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I'm going to take a picture of myself

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so you can see, look at that screen, ooh.

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You have face detection, cool.

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Yeah it has face detection so it won't take the picture

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unless everybody has, you know...

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Everyone's in focus, everyone's in the right light.

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It'll expose the picture properly.

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Exactly, exactly. Don't confuse it with smile detection,

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because it's different. - Right right right,

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it's not smile detection it's just face detection.

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It's face detection. Alright so right now we are in auto mode,

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but to change the mode you'll see,

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you just click on this mode button right here.

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Alright and you can use these side scroll buttons

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to go to program mode,

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which is basically the same thing as manual.

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Here you have portrait

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but you also have all your different scene modes

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so you'll see when we go down

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you'll see you have night, kids and pets, indoors,

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sunset, fireworks - that's a cool little feature,

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you even have you know, a setting for the beach,

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the aquarium, all sorts of cool stuff,

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and right here this is your movie mode.

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And once you're in the mode,

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you click OK, you just go to this button menu

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and that's where you can really control all your settings

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which is good to know. Now let's go back

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and I want to see my pictures so we'll just go back into auto

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and you just push this playback feature right here

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and look you can see all the pictures.

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Look we took that earlier,

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that's Albert looking sexy. Oh that's the picture he took.

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There's producer Dan.

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So this camera has ISO 1600 capability

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so it's great whether you're in low light, high light,

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you can really control those settings.

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Very cool. - I like it, it's cute, it's durable,

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it's the Powershot Canon, it's a brand you can trust.

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What color would you pick? - I don't know,

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I like this one with the white and silver.

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White and silver goes good together.

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Yeah it does, it looks really nice.

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But they're all, they all have this like,

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this, you know, this shiny look to them

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and great lenses too. Look at this

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we're going to show you right now,

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we're going to zoom in and out, and you'll see...

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And it does a 3.3x optical and a 4 times digital

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so combined that's 12 point something zoom.

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Three. - You do 3.3 times 4, so I'm...

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So whatever. And what kind of media does it record to?

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It records to regular SD card, it has 100,

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it comes with batteries and 128 megabyte SD card,

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which doesn't hold that much.

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That doesn't hold much, make sure you buy a bigger SD card.

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Yeah you'll definitely need a bigger SD card

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but at least you have something to start out on

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when you get the camera out of the box.

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Yeah keep in mind that if you're going to get an SD card,

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you might as well go for the big ones and get an SDHC,

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because you're going to get more capacity

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and these are 10 megapixels, it's a pretty big photo.

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Yeah, yeah. - And you know one gigger you know...

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But you can control that, if you want to take...

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Of course you can always make the picture smaller

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but you know you always want to keep them

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biggest, most beautiful picture as well, so.

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I totally agree, so definitely go for that 4 gig, that 4 gig card.

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Why were you just looking at me like that?

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Or that 8 gig. - 8 gigger, there you go.

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Definitely 8 gigger. - So this is it,

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this is all we have for you today.

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Albert thanks so much for joining me.

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No problem it was fun. - It's been a fun event, or day.

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Very random. - See you guys later.

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For more information on the Canon Powershot A480

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in all these colors just visit any of these major retailers

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and type in Canon A480 into the search box.

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For ComputerTV, I'm Sam.

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