The A720Is seems to originate a lot of debate with regard to it's quality. If your no ifs ands or buts considering buying a Canon PowerShot A720Is digital camera, you need to reconsider both sides of the debate. With a plethora of digital camera salesman flooding the net, it's not hard to find someone to tell you how great the A720Is is. What you need is someone to point out it's faults. I'm more than happy to oblige.
The A720Is, can't seem to deal with children, or other fast tantalizing objects without hand-operated intervention. Most of the time, you'll just end up with blurry pictures. Of all the auto settings this PowerShot offers, none seem to have a fast shutter speed. There is no "sports mode", and even the "kids mode" has a slower than thinkable, shutter speed. You can of course select manual, but then you have to do all the settings manual, not just the shutter speed. This behaviour sort of defeats the whole purpose of being a straightforward to use point and shoot camera.
Compounding the primary problem, is a slow flash recharge time. So, after you've taken your first blurry picture, you can expect to wait some seconds while the flash recharges. So much for taking a quick second photo to try and make up for the messed up one. The Canon A720Is (and some other Canons) only uses 2 double A batteries. Canon and others seem to have a tendency to overload the camera with large Lcd screens, and power sucking flashes, and then cheap out in the battery power department. Even pro photographers rarely get the photo they want on the first shutter button squeeze.
If you need a dinky more coaxing to reconsider other cameras, here's a quick summary of other PowerShot A720Is problems:
- Iso settings above 400 furnish very noisy images
- image stabilization produces questionable benefits
- wireless file replacement is absent
- windows software has less features then former versions
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