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Canon PowerShot A720 IS


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Reviewed by: 

bogakvm

( Intermediate)

Review Date
October 30, 2008

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

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2.67 of 5,
3 votes

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Review 1 of 3

Price Paid:  $250.00 from Costco

Summary:

Great P&S Camera for bright and well lit environments. For the low-light it gets a little noisy and flash takes a while to start-up. But I really haven't done much of a low-light, indoor photography with this particular model. Mostly used it outside in manual mode.

Image Stabilization is a must. Had one w/o IS prior to this one and really can appreciate the difference.

Mostly use camera in Manual Mode with ISO set at 100 and highest image resolution - that gives more options for cropping and getting details out of an image.

Strengths:

size, weight, battery life

Weaknesses:

slow focus on non-contrast items : need to move POV to some reference to focus and then move back to an object to take a picture.

not a wide angle : widest is 35mm in 35 mm equivalent.

Similar Products Used:

Nikon Coolpix

Customer Service:

dropped the camera and focusing stopped working. Sent to a factory, they wanted $100 to fix it. Went ahead and bought 870 IS instead (which is a wide angle, 28mm equ)



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Reviewed by: 

amitg_47

( Intermediate)

Review Date
June 11, 2008

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

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2.00 of 5,
1 votes

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Review 2 of 3

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:

Hi,
I purchase it this month and I am quite happy with the performance. This is a power packed gadget. I simply loved it. I tried taking the images in the night and all of them are superb. The 6x optical Zoom is wonderful, it gives clear pictures. I have tried it in almost all the modes and it works fine. Before purchasing this cam, i did a lot of survey on the cams available in the market like sony, nikon etc. Now, I am quite happy with this small wonder. Also, the movies made by this cam are wonderful. In short, its worth its price or you can say more than that. Three cheers for A720!!!.
Regards,
Amit

Strengths:

Greater display, powerful optical zoom



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Reviewed by: 

sethankur

( Intermediate)

Review Date
January 11, 2008

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

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1.92 of 5,
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Review 3 of 3

Price Paid:  $202.00 from CircuitCity

Summary:

Crap I would say....

I bought this camera for a gift...thought canon to be a good brand...but it does'nt switches on ..simply does not.
I have tried with different batteries and cleaned the edges too...i could not understand what could be the problem.
.. This was bought from Circuit City Texas, and now I am in India. Canon India is charging heavy amount for repair. I am stuck...

can some one help??

Customer Service:

very expensive



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