Tore Lund wrote:
> Right now I am mainly looking for a "stopgap camera" to use this
> summer
> while I wait for new Nikons, or maybe the Fuji F700.  I thought that a
> Canon A300 would serve this purpose well - no zoom, but 3 MP, some
> controls and a very low price.  However, pictures were blurred around
> the edges - left side in particular - leaving not more than 2 MP of
> usable image.  So I returned it.  I find it rather exasperating that a
> camera from a reputable manufacturer is delivered with defects that
> are steady and measurable.  (A sudden failure in some component is
> another
> matter entirely - that sort of thing is hard to test at the assembly
> line.)
>

Yeah, you had a misaligned CCD!  Canon really needs to get it's act together
for better quality control with their A series digicams.  They are really
damaging the good Canon reputation with all of these defective A series
digicams.

> I really hope this will work as well as you say, because it looks like
> scenes and similar mechanisms is what we will be offered in cheap,
> small cameras from now on.

It actually works quite well.  The hardest part is learning to think outside
the box of traditional f/stops and shutter speeds.  Once you can do that,
you can accept that the inexpensive digicams use "scene modes" that really
do a good job.

Steve