Canon PowerShot A520

Canon puts aperture priority, shutter priority, and even full manual control at your fingertips, which is a relative rarity in this price range. Want to focus manually? You can do that too. All of this customization makes the A520 the kind of four-megapixel camera users can grow into. Canon includes a dozen scene modes, 640 x 480-pixel video capture (though it's a slightly choppy ten frames per second), and a Photo Stitching mode for panoramic photos. The A520's outdoor shots looked crisp, clean, and colorful, but indoor photos were particularly noisy.