Great Seller | Canon PowerShot A720IS 8MP Digital Camera with 6x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom

Great Camera | Canon PowerShot A720IS 8MP Digital Camera with 6x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom

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	• Canon PowerShot A720IS 8MP Digital Camera with 6x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom Canon Canon, 2007 average customer review:based on 288 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great camera, great price

We just got back from a 2 week vacation, I took 179 photos. I'm glad I only got the 1 Gig card, for it, as I didn't use half of the space. A little bulky, but great features and great price more than make up for it. It still fit in my pocket, to haul around all day, and the 6x zoom covers most things you want to shoot. GMVB

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I was so thrilled to receive my new
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Great Camera

I bought this camera with a focus on faster shutter speed, and it certainly came up to my expectations. I can now capture the pics I want before that split second when the subject moves, (especially pets). The display is great and I also liked the fact that this had a viewfinder as well as the LCD display. In bright sunlight, this came in handy. When the sun is too bright, the display wasn't easily seen (as with most digitals).. It fits in the hand nicely and I took multiple pics one-handed. The zoom is located in the right-hand corner and was smooth to use. As someone who falls in the middle of "camera expertise" this camera works great.. I like it simple, but there are a ton of options for other features to explore. I've had the camera about 2 months and am still learning all about the features; but the pictures I have taken, have been excellent. Great camera..!! Would highly recommend.

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Great camera for price

I have a Nikon DSLR camera and love it, but it is large. I wanted a camera that I could take traveling with me, to friend's houses, to parties, etc that was a little more portable. I have a Panasonic DMC-TZ3 which takes excellent outdoor photos, but the indoor ones are terrible. I wanted good quality indoor and outdoor photos, but did not want to pay too much.

PROS:
1. Good quality outdoor and indoor photos.The outdoor photos weren't quite as good as the Panasonic (when compared side by side), but you'd never know it if you were just looking at the Canon shots. They are very good and I am happy with them. The indoor shots are miles better than the Panasonic and really quite good too (but obviously not as good as the Nikon DSLR). I was impressed. The color balance and brightness quality is right on.
2. I love the auto red eye correction feature. Very useful.
3. I found that that Auto setting is just about right for all situations. I don't really have to worry about changing the settings for various situations.
4. I LOVE that you can zoom in/out while taking a movie!
5. The movie quality is great - the video recording not quite as good as my Panasonic, but the audio recording is much better.
6. I like that it records movies as AVI files.

CONS/WISHES:
1. I wish it has a battery level indicator on the LCD.
2. The MAIN PROBLEM (which is really very annoying actually): As everyone else mentions - the recharge time is almost unbearable. It is worse than my 7 year old Sony cybershot. After a weekend of taking photos (the batteries are on the low end) I have to wait a full 10 seconds before being able to take another photo. Count to 10 slowly - that is a long time!

NOTES:
1. I took 160 photos and 6 movies over the course of a 4 day vacation on the two batteries. They aren't dead yet, but I did get a battery low warning.
2. A number of indoor shots were blurry though (like I took 6 pictures of the same two people in the same position, and 3 of them were blurry). Weird. Could be due to taking the photos when the batteries were low or the auto focus just focused on the wrong subject (I will have to experiment more with the various auto focus options).

OVERALL:
I wouldn't pay $250-$300 for this camera (which is why I didn't stick with the other Canon's I tested, the 870IS, 850, 750), but I would happily pay $170 for this camera (which I did). It is definitely worth it. It's a great cheap camera. And you can even get an underwater case for it! I am curious to try it out while snorkeling.

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Just as Good as I Hoped and Incredibly Easy to Use

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Summary: It is very easy to use and delivers great quality photos in a variety of situations with an absolute minimum of skill and zero talent.
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About me: I bought this camera to take pictures of my daughter and my family. I am a very poor photographer with a good appreciation of photography, which is a painful situation to be in. In the past I have used a 3 mega-pixel camera phone, a Kodak camera in about the same price range, and then some Sony digital mini-cameras. I use this camera mainly indoors in medium light (energy-saving bulbs, late afternoon, overcast or raining). My approach is to take pictures early and often and hope for the best. I was looking for a camera that had great potential and that even I (read: one of the worst picture-takers you'll ever meet) could get some decent pictures with. I have never taken a photography course and never will, because if I have the time and money I will spend it on something I can hope to actually get good at. I think I am a pretty typical camera-buyer.

About the camera: This camera met all of my expectations. It is very easy to use and delivers great quality photos in a variety of situations with an absolute minimum of skill and zero talent, which is what I wanted from a point-and-shoot.

When the other reviewers say it doesn't work well in low-light, they mean, very low light, like this is not a camera for amateurs that want to do some good photography at night or in a room with only a 20-watt bulb. The flash works fine for the rest of us! I certainly have not had any light issues and we do not live in the brightest of houses or climates. I used the night mode for quiet times and the auto-with-flash for active night pictures and they turned out fine.

This camera is nice because it has two functions that help poor photographers in particular (in addition to other modes that probably help everyone equally): the kids and pets function, which allows you to take picture after picture in quick succession so you don't miss any action, and the auto function which provides a higher-quality picture. If I use these according to the recommendations in the user's manual, I can usually get 25 - 50% of my pictures of a moderate to good quality, as compared to an (imaginary) amateur photographer who actually knows what she is doing. That is compared to 1 - 5% of pictures using a camera phone or another cheap camera without these easy-to-use modes.

This camera is not so small that I lose it in my purse, which is a danger with tiny cameras, if your purse is anything like mine.

The stabilizer is also great since I take pictures while running after my toddler. I had considered buying the very cute Nikon in the same price range (the one that looks like a Brownie camera), but they did not have stabilizers, so I finally went for this one and I am very glad. The function works great.

One thing that they don't mention in the descriptions is that you do not have to switch between the viewfinder and the LCD display, like on some cameras. What I mean is that you can look through the little window like on regular cameras, OR at the big screen, like on digital cameras, all the time, without switching view mode. So you can switch from person to person without having to switch the view mode. This is great because my mother likes the viewfinder and I like the LCD. I also like to switch between them.

Another nice thing that I like is the ease with which you can switch from taking pictures to review mode to look at the pictures you took. It is a separate switch that you could find in the dark if you needed to. That is nice because I have deleted many a batch of photos trying to figure out how to get into the mode where I can review the pictures I have just taken.

The pictures I have taken with this camera are located at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rahimzade (this is an ad-free, non-commercial set of our family pictures). You can see which ones were taken with the Canon A720IS by clicking on the photo and looking in the right-hand column, and compare them with other pictures I have taken. As I have mentioned I have no skills or talent in this area so if you are someone who really wants decent pictures but are also a photo dunce who just wants a picture of your kid or grandkid, this would give you a good idea of what to expect.

(If you are an amateur or pro photographer, this review and those samples are not for you because you could probably do better with a camera obscura.)

I would certainly buy this camera again.

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