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Canon SX710 ~ a Walking Review

Started May 1, 2015 | Discussions thread
WalkerC
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Re: Canon SX710 ~ a Walking Review

Okay, come with me for a walk around Lost Lagoon. I spent an hour and a half there this morning, taking 178 pictures to test out some everyday competence of the little Canon SX710.

I've uploaded two dozen pictures:

http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/2318521768/albums/canon-sx710-a-walking-review

This is my first time using a gallery here to do a "walking review", and, if I've blundered somewhere along the way, I welcome the DPReview moderator folks to tell me the error of my ways. Maybe this whole thread is supposed to be under "Reviews". I did have a few minor problems doing the upload.

It's for people who might be deciding whether to buy this camera. The very heavy criticism has been that its 20 megapixels are way too many for its tiny 1/2.3" sensor. Quite a few people are so outraged by Canon's attempting that, that they have emotionally condemned the camera without even requiring a test. It's just too many pixels in too teensy a sensor. Anybody in an armchair knows that. And they are more than willing to let you know.

Well, the flip-flop of that, or the corollary, is that these pictures are all pretty bad. They have to be, as they were taken with all those pixels.

The pictures in this gallery are not extremely good photos. I don't care. I enjoyed my walk this morning. My Honey likes her new Canon SX710. Maybe you are wondering whether to buy the SX710, and so here are some photos.

Every picture is a SOOC. Every picture was taken at ISO 100.

(I'm new to this, but you do realize you have to click a couple of times on each picture in the gallery, in order to get some size out of it.)

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