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Review summary: Canon put substance over style when it designed the PowerShot A590 IS, and in doing so it made a great camera. While the clunky-looking 8-megapixel shooter looks bland when compared with colorful, ultraslim, style-minded cameras, its impressive ...

Pros: Great picture quality ; fast shutter speed ; broad manual feature set

Cons: Chunky appearance ; slow shot-to-shot time with the onboard flash enabled

Verdict: The Canon PowerShot A590 IS's manual exposure controls and surprisingly sharp pictures make it a great choice for almost anyone looking for a sub-$200 shooter.

Review summary: It's a common sense principle that a successful performance is often a hard act to follow.

Pros: Good all-around image quality ; Plenty of speed for most uses ; Decent high ISO performance ; Appealing simple interface, nice ergonomics

Cons: Enough improvements over the A570 to justify the slight initial price premium ; Battery door cheap feeling, hard to close ; Flash recycle times still feel long

Verdict: Given this lineage, it's hard to approach the A590 as anything other than the mid-priced compact camera to beat in 2008. At the same time, the one unanswered question is whether the new model brings enough excitement and innovation to keep this highly ...

Review summary: The Canon PowerShot A590 IS is an 8 megapixel point and shoot camera with a 4x optical zoom lens and image stabilization. It also comes featuring aperture and shutter priority modes as well as full manual exposure mode. It will have a retail price of ...

Verdict: It also comes featuring aperture and shutter priority modes as well as full manual exposure mode

Review summary: Positioned in upper-middle tier of the PowerShot A-series and replacing the A570 IS, the Canon PowerShot A590 IS offers a number of enhancements and advancements at a savings of about $100 over the previous model's list price.

Pros: Small, compact size ; Advanced Face and Motion Detection ; Easy" mode for novices ; Full "PASM" exposure modes ; good image adjustment capability for advanced users ; Very good color ; Image Stabilization reduces blur ; 9-point AF for accurate focus ; ...

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Verdict: The Canon PowerShot A590 IS has an eight megapixel CCD imager coupled with a Canon-branded 4x optical zoom lens which is optically stabilized. Images are framed on the 115,000 pixel 2.5-inch LCD display, or using the optical viewfinder. The A590 IS ...

Review summary: There are good digital cameras and cheap digital cameras - the trick is getting both in the same package. The Canon PowerShot A590 IS is one digital camera that delivers a lot of capability and good photos at a low price. We also like the fact that ...