Canon PowerShot A460 5.0MP offers the high-performance features and high-quality design that make great pictures possible even if this is your very first digital camera. Equipped with 5.0 megapixels of resolution, a 4x optical zoom, and many of Canon’s most popular shooting features, this is a camera designed to make digital photography simple, fun, and rewarding–from the moment you take it out of the box.
The PowerShot A460’s 5.0 megapixels of resolution give every shot added depth and dimension. You’ll notice the fine details and ravishing colors. The sharpness and clarity of your enlargements will also astound you. Plus, the 4x optical zoom lens makes it simple to shoot close-ups, scenery and anything else with the brilliance and flawless clarity that have built Canon’s reputation worldwide. To make shooting and playback convenient and easy, there’s a big, clear 2.0-inch LCD screen.
Helpful consumer’s review
I bought this camera (Canon A460) as a second camera and was looking for a pocket-sized, compact, digital camera that had zoom and video capabilities, took AA batteries and priced reasonably cheap [...] The Canon Powershot A460 is all that.
It’s small enough to fit into your palm and fits into the front pants pocket easily and is light enough that the camera is not really noticeable after a few minutes. It seems to me that Canon designed it to be carried without a camera case because there is a lens shield that pulls into place to cover the lens whenever it is powered off. (The lens retracts into the camera body when it is powered off, and the lens cover pulls into place automatically). The body is well rounded with no sharp edges anywhere that might catch parts of clothing. The LCD screen is exposed but I pasted one of those see-thru LCD screen plastic protectors (sticky on one side) on it to protect it from scratches. All the camera’s openings are well protected by covers. The only cover that I thought had a little more play than it should was the battery cover.
The camera powers up extremely quickly. You can focus with either the viewfinder or the LCD screen. One thing that surprised me was that when using the viewfinder, there is no information shown on the viewfinder other than a green light to indicate that the camera is in focus or a blinking orange light to indicate it is not. The LCD mode shows a lot more info (eg, ISO speed, current resolution, etc). But, I guess it makes sense since this is a camera that is meant to be simple, and what could be simpler than knowing when something is in focus or not. That’s pretty much all the info that’s needed. (Switching to the viewfinder will conserve battery power).
