Canon PowerShot A3300 IS is a good looking point-and-shoot camera available in five colours ?red, black, blue, silver and pink. Amateurs with basic expectations, especially those who want to capture special moments with friends, family and pets will find its image quality and price quite impressive. At 10k, it has plenty of modes and effects to play with and has high definition recording as well. If you are interested in long distance shots and can push your budget further, check out some DSLR and prosumer cameras.
The A3300 we reviewed was red with a black frame around it and a 3-inch LCD on the back side, adjacent to which lays a control panel comprising of playback, face select, cursor and menu buttons.
The front features a super-zoom lens with 5x optical zoom and a flash above it. To shoot, press the shoot button on the top, where you also have on/off button and a mode dial, which has various modes to choose from fitting one?s need and proficiency. The lower panel has a tripod slot along with battery and memory card panel.
When switched on, A3300?s display shows indicators to the settings being deployed for a shot, along with the battery status. The display goes off automatically when not in use. The camera includes multiple modes such as Video mode where you can shoot 1280 x 720 pixel high definition video; Discreet mode for silent and minus flash shooting; Fish-eye effect with some fantastic and colourful effects; Scene mode gives you options to shoot in multiple scenarios with most suitable settings and requirements and can click at a resolution of 4608 x 3456; Easy mode for beginners with no option except shoot, where auto itself decides a scene and chooses ideal settings; Live mode where you can change the scenario nature from dark to light, neutral to vivid or cool to warm; lastly, Program mode, which allows options such as contrast, colour saturation, high resolution and ISO 1600, etc.
The camera has 5x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom, which is altogether just 9x. The image blurs under poor light conditions, however, processing is fast with highly responsive buttons. The shoot button would have been handier, had it been in place of the mode dial, which on the extreme right will not be as frequently used as the shoot and zoom lever button. Pictures taken in Scene mode is the best of all and carries the same brilliance to a PC. The Program mode requires a little more experience with the camera. The high definition video quality is impressive, but good high definition is available in a 6K camera too, for instance Fujifilm AV200.
Canon PowerShot A3300 IS can produce excellent results of close shots, especially of humans, pets and flowers. The battery strength of A3300 is a let-down and lasted merely 2-3 hours. Overall, it?s an impressive camera at an attractive price.
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