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Title: Flawed in Several Ways
Review: I bought this camera to replace a three-year-old Nikon Coolpix 990, because I was tired of the Coolpix's only flaw--redeye. I had bought an external flash, and an L-bracket, and toting around all that junk was tiring. I wanted something to point and shoot. Well, the PowerShot A85 isn't it. The Coolpix is an old 3 megapixel camera, and it dances circles around the just-released, brand-new 4 megapixel PowerShot in picture quality. The PowerShot, out of 20 pictures, had a white "flare" circle appear when using the flash. This was a against blue velvet drapes--no glass or anything to reflect off of! My brown-eyed 17-year-old had redeye, which means the blue-eyed people looked EXTREMELY demon-possessed. (Yes, redeye-reduction was on.) And the pictures had noise in them. The quality of the pictures is just plain poor. I sure hope this camera is just a lemon and not an indication of the quality of the A85. Regardless, it's going back to Amazon, and I'm going back to Nikon.
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