Canon PowerShot A510 digital camera

[Marcellus]

For quality images and sophisticated features, the PowerShot A520 is by far the leader among popularly priced digital cameras. With 4.0 Megapixel resolution, Canon's exclusive DIGIC Image Processor and a new, longer 4x optical zoom, images are crisp and bright with true-to-life color. The new ergonomic grip and big 1.8 inch LCD screen make this camera as fun to use as it is easy.

Canon PowerShot A510 digital camera specification

• Type - 4.0 Megapixel, 1/2.5 inch type Charge Coupled Device (CCD)
• Total Pixels Approx. 4.2 Megapixels
• Effective Pixels Approx. 4.0 Megapixels
• Lens Focal Length 5.8-23.2mm, f/2.6-5.5 (35mm film equivalent: 35-140mm)
• Digital Zoom 3.6x
• Focusing Range NORMAL: 1.5 ft./45cm-Infinity
• MACRO: 2 in.-1.5 ft./5-45cm (WIDE), 11.8 in.-1.5 ft./30-45cm(TELE)
• Autofocus System 9-point AiAF/1-point AF (Fixed to center)Manual Focus, AF Lock, AF-assist Beam ON/Off, MF magnified display function available
• Viewfinder - Real-image 4x optical zoom viewfinder
• LCD Monitor - 1.8 inch low-temperature polycrystalline silicon TFT color LCD
• LCD Pixels - Approx. 115,000 pixels
• LCD Coverage - 100%
• Aperture and Shutter
• Maximum Aperture - f/2.6-8.0 (W), f/5.5-8.0 (T)
• Shutter Speed - 15-1/2000 sec; can be set in 1/3-stop increments in Manual and Shutter-priority (Tv) Modes.
• ISO Sensitivity - AUTO, ISO 50/100/200/400 equivalent
• Light Metering Method - Evaluative, Center-weighted average, Spot**Metering frame with Spot mode is center fixed.
• Exposure Control Method - Program AE, Aperture or Shutter-Priority AE, Manual
• Storage Media - SD memory card
• Image Compression - Still: Exif 2.2 (JPEG)
• Movie: AVI (Image data: Motion JPEG; Audio data: WAVE (Monaural))
• JPEG Compression Mode- Normal, Fine, SuperFine
• Number of Recording Pixels - Still Image: 2272x1704 (Large), 1600x1200 (Medium 1), 1024x768 (Medium 2), 640x480 (Small)
  Movie: 640x480, 320x240 or 160x120

[Gonzo]

With the PowerShot A520's 4.0 Megapixels of imaging power, you'll see spectacular detail and clarity even in your largest prints. The newly engineered 4x optical zoom lens has a versatile focal length of 35-140 mm (35mm film equivalent) to handle everything from snapshots to landscapes with ease. The zoom's new design also offers a higher magnification for the 4x zoom ratio to fill your close-ups with radiant detail. The optical zoom combines with a 3.6x digital zoom to take you quickly and smoothly to 14x. And all this power comes to you in a camera that's so small and light, you'll want to tuck it in your bag and take it everywhere you go.

[Pugsly]

With the PowerShot A520's 9-point AiAF, you can count on exact focus no matter where your subject is in the frame. Plus, you've also got Special Scene Modes that give you breathtaking, exhilarating pictures even when shooting conditions are tough.

[hatred]

The A520's Print/Share Button makes direct printing easier than ever. Simply connect the A520 to a Canon Direct Photo Printer or PictBridge supported printer, press the Print/Share Button and print! Also use the Print/Share Button to transfer images directly to a computer Windows.

[bartbrn]

Hope someone can help me here -- I have a Canon PowerShot A510, works perfectly fine with the original 16Mb SD card. Today I put in a brand-new SanDisk 8Mb card, went through all the steps (three times) delineated in the manual to format the card, and now all I get, after the Canon splash screen, is "memory card error". I took all the usual anti-electrostatic precautions, and still zip. The card slides home in its slot perfectly. The only other anomaly, which both Canon and SanDisk warn about, is that the card may appear up in the "Menu" window showing considerably less capacity than the card actually has (in my case, the 8Gb card shows up as 3.9Gb,

Any clues?

Thanks for your time...

Bart Brown

[Silent~Kid]

FORMAT that memory card using FAT32 and you will get it working again. i think it will be a compatibility issues.

SD and SDHC compatibility issues

The SDHC specification was completed in June 2006, but by that time, non-standard high-capacity (>2GB) SD cards (based on the older 1.x specification) were already on the market. The two types of storage-cards were not interchangeable, creating some confusion among customers. Fortunately, such cards were expensive and represented a very small portion of the SD-card market, giving vendors of consumer devices and storage-cards the time to adopt the SDHC SD2.0 standard.

SD and SDHC cards and devices have these compatibility issues :

• Devices that do not specifically support SDHC do not recognize SDHC memory cards. Some devices can support SDHC through a firmware upgrade.
• SDHC devices are backward compatible with SD memory cards.
• Some manufacturers have produced 4 GB SD cards that conform to neither the SD2.0/SDHC spec nor existing SD devices.
• File System: SD cards are typically formatted with the FAT16 file system, while SDHC cards are typically formatted as FAT32. However, both types of cards can support other general-purpose file systems, such as UFS2/ext2 or the proprietary exFAT for example.

Wiki

[bartbrn]

FORMAT that memory card using FAT32 and you will get it working again. i think it will be a compatibility issues.
Wiki

Thanks for the tip, but can you tell me HOW to format using FAT32?

Thanks!

Bart Brown