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Canon PowerShot A590 IS

Author Cliff Smith
Published 6th Jun 2008
Manufacturer Canon
Price £104.35 (Exc VAT)
as reviewed £120.00 (Inc VAT)
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Build Quality Score 9 for Build Quality
Features Score 8 for Features
Image Quality Score 6 for Image Quality
Value Score 9 for Value
Overall Score 8 for Overall
Canon PowerShot A590 IS
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Over the next few pages we show a range of test shots. On this page the full size image at the minimum and maximum ISO settings have been reduced to let you see the full image, and a series of full resolution crops have taken from original images at a range of ISO settings to show the overall image quality.




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This is a full-frame image at the minimum sensitivity of 80 ISO.





Image quality at the lowest ISO setting is superb.





At 100 ISO there is already some colour speckling visible.





Image noise is noticeable at 200 ISO.





At 400 ISO the noise is affecting the level of fine detail.





Very significant noise problems at 800 ISO.





At 1600 ISO the noise is so bad the image is virtually useless.




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This is the full frame at maximum ISO.


 

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Comment Shironeko said on 10th June 2008

Man, reading your comment on the Ol' A10, I remembered I still got my Ol' trusty a40 in almost mint condition... I don't use it for general photography anymore thoug... more

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