New Toy!

I have a new toy!! it’s the Canon Powershot A720 IS.

A bit bulky, a bit slow to start up, has a lens that does NOT get an erection due to gravity (finally), and has image stabilization! (whieeeeeeeeee)

Overall impressions:

Build: Average, like all other canons, painted plastic.

Looks: Almost ugly!

Lens: Long, protrudes a lot.

MP: 8

Zoom: 6x(35mm-210mm) (suckie wide shots)

Image quality: Moderate (Better when set on P or program, with my colours set to vivid)

Handling: Good

LCD: Mediocre, but large in size

Placement of buttons: Good

Night Shots: Horrid-ish

Low Light performance: its a small camera, so don’t even go there.

Overall rating: 7/10

I like my new toy. Its exciting.

I am going to play with it some more this weekend, and see what it conjures up.

I took a photo of the Kikkoman Soya Sauce bottle I got as a present from Shivdeep, and it seemed okay with the macro shots. The vivid mode makes colours come out MUCH better than in Auto.

I mostly like the camera, lets see how the photos turn out to be at daytime.