The Powershot A700 was a very exciting and progressive offering when released. With it’s 6x zoom it was certainly more advanced than the A540 and whoever valued the zoomrange over a vari-angle display had a good alternative for an A620.

But Canon decided to upgrade it already! And what a nice digicam it is now an image stabiliser has been added - that certainly helps prevent shaken images using the full zoom at less than optimal light conditions. Also, the sensor has been replaced by a 7.1 megapixel chip.

Like it’s predecessor, the Powershot A710 sports a fixed 2.5 ” display, the fast DIGIC II processor and an extended ISO value of 800.
With a lens adapter and teleconverter, the already great zoom-range of this nice small camera (35-210 mm) can be multiplied by 1.5 or 2.
Now that’s a lot of power in your hands…