Having spent over 15 years in the camera business, selling essentially every major brand, including Hasselblad and Leica in the hard-core professional marketplace, I have always had the utmost of confidence in the value and quality of Canon products, and I have owned MANY MANY Canons, and still do.

There is no doubt in my mind that, generally speaking, Leica is the superior product, worth every ¢ spent on it for the discriminating photographer. However, within the past month I have purchased a Canon Powershot A640, and find it to be an outstanding combination of function and value, fully pleasing me in my purchase decision. My first real camera, other than a Kodak Brownie in '64, was a Cano...

Having spent over 15 years in the camera business, selling essentially every major brand, including Hasselblad and Leica in the hard-core professional marketplace, I have always had the utmost of confidence in the value and quality of Canon products, and I have owned MANY MANY Canons, and still do.

There is no doubt in my mind that, generally speaking, Leica is the superior product, worth every ¢ spent on it for the discriminating photographer. However, within the past month I have purchased a Canon Powershot A640, and find it to be an outstanding combination of function and value, fully pleasing me in my purchase decision. My first real camera, other than a Kodak Brownie in '64, was a Canon, and it launched me into a career. Can't complain about that decision.