Canon Cameras US PowerShot SX720 HS Black

A great ultra-zoom camera. I've used it for many different events... family vacations, weddings, bicycle touring, fishing, nature photography, landscape photography, architectural photography. It does it all. And it does it really great too for such a small and lightweight camera. Picture quality is pretty good for a it's sensor size. You can probably get better better picture quality from your iPhone. But with it's 40x optical zoom, a smartphone can't compete. Sure, I could grab my Nikon P950 for it's zoom capabilities, but it's HUGE compared to this SX720. This Canon SX720 is my go to camera for most of my casual events. It's pocket sized and doesn't interfere when taking candid photos. Battery life is great. Videos are fairly stable. It's automatic functions are good and you have all of the abilities to manually set shutter speed, aperture and ISO. Even manual focus is available for combine photo stacking. What a great point and shoot camera!

My husband and I are blown away with this camera!!! One of the best purchases we've ever made!! My dslr canon rebel is going to collect dust. The rebel is great but I wanted a simple point and shoot and was trying to treat the rebel that way and of course my pictures were not great as a result. I don't want to fiddle with settings. This sx720 is exactly what I needed. Performs amazing indoors in low light. We mainly take pictures of our toddler and baby so a lot of pictures indoors and outside. I was tired of feeling like I couldn't take pictures after a certain time of day inside due to light. The bulk of our pictures we have been taking on our iPhones and storage always full. No longer!! This is the go to camera now!! We have a canon elph 130 which is awful in low light as the flash makes the person look like a ghost and the rest of the room dark. This camera doesn't do that at all! Everything looks well lit! A lot of times it doesn't even need flash when I think it will. The pop up flash is something to get used to especially when in use I have to hold the camera differently but I can live with it because of how in love I am with the picture quality this thing is producing. The video quality is also awesome! We've taken several videos of our kids playing and even out on a walk down our road and it has no issues keeping focus..just amazing. I'm so so so happy!!! We are already talking about buying another one so that we can have one set up on a tripod taking video on special occasions and the other taking pictures! This camera is going to capture so many memories for us. The camera is very well built and quality solid materials you can feel holding it. Love the buttons and that there is hardly any delay taking a picture when you press the button. The zoom is also pretty cool, I tested it out taking some pictures of deer in the field behind my house. I couldn't be happier.

Great product!! works perfectly and my daughter was so excited!! I've purchased 2 of these cameras and both work just like the brand new one I bought. we have 3.

I got this camera in July. My lens will not retract without an error sign which I dealt with but yesterday the pictures started to have a black blurry line on the bottom. The lens is focusing on something that is not the subject of the pictures and all the pictures are turning out blurry. Idk what to do. The camera was not cheap and I need it for work but have no recourse.

The Canon is OK, that's about it. I purchased it to replace an older Sony digital camera that began to have focusing problems. However, this camera seems to be a bit slow for focusing for a much newer and higher end camera. Also, the flash seems able to be easily damaged due to the pop up design. Quite a number of times when I popped up the flash it never flashed. The camera should have a "forced flash" feature. The amount of time to "recycle" to take another pic with flash appears to be lengthy even with a fully charged battery. I find the camera difficult to use one handed whereas I've never problem with others. While pushing the picture button the top of the camera your index finger will inadvertently hit the "arrow" or the picture playback button. At other times it also rotated the round button from auto to the hybrid auto button while trying to take pics with one hand. It gets annoying. Otherwise most pics come out fine without problems.

When my Nikon S9700 committed suicide by jumping off the counter, I did a lot of looking for a replacement. I chose the Canon Powershot SX 720 HS. I am really glad that I did. If not for the WIFI, I would have called it a 5 star camera.. My main use is taking snaps of the grandkids. The 40X zoom gets a close up head shot even when I am sitting on the first base line and he is in left field, deep left field of a little league ball field. The antivibration feature really work well. The problem with the 40X turns out not to be the vibration, but finding a moving subject in the field of view. There is a special button for that.. The attached pic was taken as a snapshot, not planned, and freehand, no tripod or even a rest on anything like a post. If you figure the plane was at about 30,000 feet??, then this was taken of a plane about 8 miles away . No, it isn’t the greatest quality, but it sure does say something about the antivib and 40X. I would point out that to the naked eye, the plane was a silvery speck at the end of the contrails. As evening falls, and it is hard to see the players well, the light sensitivity is so good that the pics and videos look like they were taken on a bright day. Awesome.. The controls are intuitive for the most part. The pic trigger and video trigger are where I would want them. Autofocus is great unless you start straying off the beaten path. Some of the options will cause the focus to get a little weird. I was surprised that the image size didn’t jump way up from the 5 meg I was used to on the Nikon. Compression in the jpg format?? The one thing I really didn’t like was the WIFI upload option. I downloaded the drivers, and was able to get the camera to talk with the network. Even when I can see that the router has the connection, the program to upload doesn’t pop up reliably. When it does load and start to run, in looks like it is shipping the files into the Comcast backbone according to the Netgear Genie program. It ties up most of the 30 mbps that Comcast gives me. I don’t understand why it would be touching the internet, and by the way, it was extremely slow uploading. The attached pic show what Netgear Genie thinks the load on the internet is while loading pics from the camera to the laptop. I really don't know why it even touches the internet, maybe that isn't what Genie is telling me? I called Canon tech support and they told me that I could hardwire with a USB2 to mini-B cable. I ordered it, and it didn’t fit. Another call to Tech support, and no, it wasn’t the mini-B, it was the micro-b cable. I ordered it, and after tuning the software options, it works. Every time, and a bunch faster. My recommendation is that you get the hard wire USB micro-B cable. One more comment about Wifi. The camera is designed with a thicker section on the right hand side while holding it. It is natural to use this thicker section to pull the camera from it’s case and put it back. The location of the wifi button is right where you would hold it to put it away. Twice, I have had a dead battery because I accidentally hit the wifi button when storing it, and it drained the battery. Given a choice, I would have it removed… All told, I am EXTREMELY pleased with it. Focus, speed. Light sensitivity, small size, 40X zoom, 1080P video, large memory options, what looks like accurate colors, and a good path to upload to my laptop. What more can you want?? An addition, After some quality time on a "great Adventure" with the grandkids. The Pic review button does the same thing the Wifi button does. Both drained the battery when pushed thru the soft case. I have yet to find the right hardcase that the camera will fit in. I intend to make a cover for those buttons and tape it in place. Really a pain when the battery is dead when you want to take that magic pic!! Too bad there isn't a firmware option to disable them. Canon PowerShot SX720 HS (Black)

This camera is AMAZING!! I am so impressed! I purchased this camera specifically for its HD video capabilities, but it has completely revived my love of photography! The last time I purchased a digital camera was back in about 2009, and that one was a mid-range Casio model that lasted me several years. I hadn't felt the need to get a new camera since then because of the advances in cell phone camera quality, but my phone is now 2 years old and is running out of memory... I decided to try the SX720 and I am so happy I did! It turns out digital cameras have also made some amazing advances over the past 10 years! The photo quality of this camera is incredible and highly impressive. So far, I love the "Live" mode because it's easy to quickly set your color and contrast settings to achieve beautiful photos with no after-effects needed. The zoom is super crisp and the camera does an excellent job of tracking focus as well. The video mode has a highly advanced stabilization feature that is great for vlogging or shooting video without a tripod. I also love that you can zoom while taking video and the camera's focus is super fast, my last camera could not zoom while filming. The Wi-Fi transfer feature is neat and easy to configure as well, although it drains the camera's battery very quickly when transferring video files so I will probably just stick to plugging the SD card (not included) into my PC to transfer files. Overall, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this camera so far! Can't wait to play with it some more and figure out all of its fancy new features :)

I was hesitant to order a used camera but this camera is amazing. Looks brand new. Works great! Takes beautiful pictures. With the exception of the camera pictures the nature photos were taken with this camera. I am really impressed and enjoying it. The pigeons and tree were taken at full optical zoom. My only complaint is paying so much for a camera that’s so old. I guess it’s a matter of “supply and demand “ Anyway in my opinion it’s a great purchase! WiFi connection was easy and convenient.