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SX260 HS to SX700 HS or wait for SX710 HS?

Started Jan 10, 2015 | Questions thread
stevenic Senior Member • Posts: 1,459
Re: SX260 HS to SX700 HS or wait for SX710 HS?

Ashleigh919 wrote:

I ended up buying an SX700 last night because all of a sudden, my SX260 started taking on a blue tinge to everything. no matter how I adjust the white balance, no matter what mode I am in, no matter how I adjust the settings on the camera, the color of whatever the picture subject is is simply just not right. This happened so suddenly, and honestly, I'm annoyed, because this is my replacement SX260, which is only 20 months old. Sure, I had the speck of dust on the lens, anyway, but I wouldn't expect the sensor to go bad like this.

I did get Best Buy to match the price, even though they claimed to not match the price of the other vendor (apparently BB was the only place in the area that had one physically in stock rather than purchasing online, and I needed the camera for today), so I only paid $235 + tax, which isn't too horrible. There's also still no detail on when the 710 will be released, though I thought it would be released by today? Either way, to save $115 off the 710 sold me!

Congratulations, I think you like it. If I didn't buy a sx50 I would of probably bought a sx700.

I did test it twice and found it had nice colorful images, its only when you started going over ISO800 noise becomes an issue. The video performance is excellent too.

Cheers

Steve.

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