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Review: I wanted a smaller camera for holiday snaps etc, as my Canon EOS500 35mm kit is both bulky and heavy to carry about. The A40 is nice and compact, with all of the controls well placed and easy to understand. I'd never used a digital before, and wasn't expecting the picture quality to be particularly good, but I've been very pleasantly surprised. Even in fully automatic mode it takes sharp, properly exposed pictures in most conditions, and with the manual settings I've managed to get good results where the automatic mode has struggled. I'll certainly be taking it with me whenever I go out now. I'm extremely pleased with my purchase, and with Amazon's speed of delivery and price - In agreement with other buyers, I'd reccomend also buying the following, especially if you plan on using it a lot: 64 Mb or 128 Mb compact flash card - The 8Mb card that comes with the camera gets filled in no time at all if you're shooting in superfine mode. I got the Viking card from Amazon... nice perfomance and I haven't found cheaper. 1800MaH NiMH rechargable batteries and charger, otherwise you'll end up spending a fortune on alkalines. I also bought a Compact Flash Card reader. The download software that comes with the camera worked fine, but it took about 3 - 5 seconds to download one picture in superfine mode. Downloading an entire cardfull seemed to take forever. With a card reader you can do it about 40 times faster. | 
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