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Excellent mid-range camera

By: terencewlee - Tue Oct 2, 2007 @ 7:16pm

Recomendations: 37 of 38

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The A720is has tons of features, a very sharp LCD screen, and a nice zoom. I've always loved Canon cameras but decided to try the Panasonic tmz3 (i think thats the model), which had a 10x zoom, but the picture quality was horrible compared to canons! So, I wanted to go back to the Canon line of cameras. The S series cameras are very nice but a little too bulky for me. I tried the A570 IS but I wanted something with a bit longer of a zoom and ended up with this A720IS. Quality is just what I exected, superb! The LCD screen is much sharper than I expected so I was pleasantly surprised. The 6x zoom seems to be enough, anything longer tends to get blurry anyway, without a tripod or a very steady hand. The only beef that I have with this camera is that when using the flash, the recycle time is VERY long, about 4 sec. Without the flash though, its very fast. I did like that it takes the high capacity SD cards, so I bought a 4GB card so I don't have to worry about running out of space.

Pros: Great quality pics, Nice zoom

Cons: Long flash recycle time

Very good

By: Yahoo! Shopping User - Mon Nov 26, 2007 @ 6:49pm

Recomendations: 11 of 11

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Outside of the fat that it takes up to 3 seconds to take a picture the pictures are breathtaking and I really like the easy to use features. If ur on a budget but do not want to sacrifice quality this is your camera

Pros: Image quality

Cons: Shot cycle

I like this camera a lot

By: jhludlow - Wed Jan 23, 2008 @ 5:18pm

Recomendations: 9 of 9

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I don't know a lot about cameras. Until this one I hadn't actually owned one since I was a teen-ager. I have borrowed other peoples in the past few years though. The one that I was the most impressed with was a Canon A510. So, when I felt I needed to get one for an upcoming vacation and went shopping online for cameras, I was especially looking for whatever the A510 had morphed into over the past couple of years. It seemed that the A720 was that camera. One of the things I especially liked on the A510 was that the screen could fold around so that you wouldn't scratch it. The A720 has a larger screen - but it doesn't fold. Like the A510, In addition to taking regular snapshots, it also takes movies and, via 'stitch-assist', will take multi-shot panaramas as well. At the same time I bought the camera I bought a 2GB memory card and rechargable batteries - and a charger - and I recommend all of them for this camera. One of the things I had read is that it goes through batteries fast (and it does) and more pixels per shot means less shots per memory stick. But - a 2GB stick is still huge, even for an 8 Megapixel camera. And the batteries are easy to change. As long as I could recharge one set overnight and have another set in the camera - I was fine. The 6X *optical* zoom is handy - most cameras in this class don't have that. When I actually took it on vacation with me, I felt a little hampered by its weight - it pulls my pocket down. And, after I had taken 150 photos or so, and had deleted a few of them, it began to take longer and longer for it to recover from each shot. I think it could benefit from a de-frag utility for the memory card that doesn't involve a re-format.

So - yes - it has some short-comings. But, when I got home and moved the contents of the stick (nice software, by the way, easy to use) to my computer and then printed out some 8.5X11 prints to photo paper on my regular ink jet printer - I was *astonished* how good they look! I presume that the image stabilization feature accounts for how crisp they are - I'm not especially known for steady hands. Plus, using the software that comes with the camera, the 8 megapixel per shot capacity allows me to blow up a portion of the original shot, but still maintain decent resolution. That way I can 'repair' badly composed shots (as it turns out, I take a lot of those...) or even uncover details that I hadn't noticed when I was originally taking the shot. Overall, I'm enormously pleased with my purchase. This camera lets me impersonate a photographer and pull it off - and that's asking a lot from a camera, especially an inexpensive one.

Pros: Great image quality; easy to use; 8 Megapixel; 6X Zoom; Image Stabilization

Cons: Heavy; slow; a little bulky

One of the best point and shoot camera

By: jaymikv - Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 2:21pm

Recomendations: 3 of 3

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I grew up with SLR cameras, and so obviously I am biased on SLRs. However, this being my second digital camera, I have to say Canon 720 IS has lots of features.

1. Great picture quality.
2. Nice zoom (6x) to give you an edge over 3x optical zoom cameras.
3. Great battery life. I was surprised but the camera runs on 2AA and it can go on for lots of pics.
4. Also has an optical zoom.
5. Nice digital screen with sharp resolution.
6. Great to take short video clips. I enjoy the the audio reception.

Overall, I think this is the best buy I made during holiday time.

Great value for your money.

Pros: Tons of features

Cons: none to highlight

Best bang for buck!!

By: rolandisyourfriend - Mon Apr 21, 2008 @ 3:47pm

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I bought this camera for $200(Canadian), and it's worth every penny. For what you get I don't think you can get any better than the A720. 6x zoomed pictures look great and the image stabilizer is fantastic. When looking through the pictures there is almost no lag and could not be easier to use. It may not be the smallest camera out, but you also get way more features than smaller cameras at a far lower price.

Highly recommended.

Pros: Amazing picture quality, great macro, fast operation

Cons: slow flash refresh

canon powershot

By: nrledford - Fri Feb 8, 2008 @ 8:03pm

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This camera is a great value. The image quality is incredible and the camera is easy to use. the only drawback to the unit is the shutter lag, although it is adjustable the pic quality will suffer a small amount by increasing the shutters "reaction time". All in all I would definetly recomend this unit.

Pros: image quality, features

Cons: none

Impressive

By: itscaramel@sbcglobal.net - Mon Feb 25, 2008 @ 10:01am

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wonderful macro pictures, get as close as a centimeter or so. the manual focus is impressive.
also, the price is especially reasonable.

Pros: Lightweight, small, easy use

Cons: buttons are different than older canon cameras, have to break that habit!

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