Reviews Written by B

Stylus 710

Pros: Compact, many features, large LCD

Cons: Some problems with included software

I received the 710 as a gift and overall am very pleased. Being used to using SLRs the small size was initially off putting. I felt like I would drop it if I wasn't careful. Now the wrist strap is always around my wrist and the small size is convenient to carry anywhere. It has many different shooting modes: portrait, landscape, behind glass, etc. I never had any problems with image quality but then almost every pic I take is at the highest resolution. You never know when you'll want to enlarge something in the background. I was very pleased with the printed final picture also. The only annoying problem I've had is with the software that comes with the Stylus 710. I went ahead and paid the extra 20 bucks or something for the extra features. You can do regular panoramas with the basic software but in the extra you can do things like free stitch panorama, movie editing, slide shows and some other things. If you are doing an expecially large free stitch panorama make sure you have plenty of RAM. More than once I crashed the software using too many pictures. Also, I never could get the back up feature to work. I would try to put my photos on cdrom and it would tell me I didn't have a readable drive or something. I emailed tech support and they just told me to use the burning software that would've come with my computer. That fixed that problem. I also had trouble with saving pics after I had edited them with the camera software(contrast, saturation, etc.). Sometimes I would finish and save the pic over the original and come back and find the file no longer existed. I learned the hard way to save as another file name. Overall, a very good camera with many features in a very compact size. ...