Great picture quality, good video capture, looks good, small and light enough
Disadvantages:
Small memory card (easily solved)
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
I took me ages to find the camera with the range of features, size, and large enough zoom, but when I finally found one that met all the criteria, it was the Canon Powershot A710 IS.
The picture quality is definitely good enough, especially if you use the camera outside in daylight.
The video is also good, I take films of myself and friends playing football, and the frame rate and quality are excellent, even the sound is very good.
I bought 4 2500 uniross rechargeable batteries swell as a quick charger and these batteries will last me weeks at a time (100- 200 shots +) so I’d definitely recommend buying those too.
The zoom is superb considering the cameras size. Zoom was what I was originally looking for in a camera, hoping for 10x. However I sacrificed some zoom for 6x and settled for the lower price and smaller size. I do not regret this decision. The camera also has 4x digital zoom, however using this begins t cause quality to deteriorate for that picture.
The card provided with the camera is only 16mb it is very small, but at least it gives you the opportunity to use it as soon as you open it. The camera does not have any internal memory, so you will need a memory card to store pictures/videos. I bought a SanDisk Extreme III 1.0 GB SD card for mine, the camera only supports SD cards. Now would be a good time to buy one however, as memory card prices have plummeted recently, and where a decent card cost £100 this has fallen to half the price or lower. Even the card I bought for £30, the same version but with double the memory, 2 GB is available for just £16.
Sadly, very few accessories are provided, out of the box only some batteries, a cable to connect to pc and the aforementioned memory card.
Another problem would be the night setting/taking pictures in low light. The camera doesn’t handle low light too well and a drop in quality is apparent, however this has not been a major issue for me as I am only a casual camera user.
I definitely recommend this camera, at least to those who are looking for a very functional camera at a decent price, who are really casual camera users rather than professional. This camera is great for those family trips, get togethers, birthdays and most other things that wont demand too much from this piece of kit.
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Durability
Good
Reliability
Excellent
Size
Small
Weight
Light
Instruction Manual
Good
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