Brought this camera for my daughter when she goes to New Zealand in February 2017. Got it early for her to try and to play around with it to get used to it. She loves it. The feel of it when holding. Not too big and bulky to hold. Photos are coming out really clean and crisp.

a travel zoom seems like the perfect camera, with lots of optical zoom, compact bodies, and reasonable prices... but as the old saying goes: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Unfortunately, we may have reached that point with the new Canon PowerShot SX720 HS (MSRP $379.99).

It's convenient and portable

It's not bad when you don't zoom very far

Great zoom

Nothing yet

This is a nice camera and I just came back from a holiday where I took a lot of pictures. I love the zoom on this camera. I had some pictures not turn out so well but overall it did a really good job.

This is a small inexpensive digital camera that I bought especially for holiday photos where my mobile phone camera is not enough; It has a fantastic zoom that produces really clear photos.

When the app on my phone updated i had to redo the links to the camera which was frustrating at the time; I managed it using my home wifi but couldn't work it out using blue tooth

The PowerShot SX720 HS builds upon the SX710 from last year with a few nice improvements, namely a new updated zoom lens. Like its predecessor, the SX720 offers a 20.3MP CMOS image sensor, DIGIC 6 processor, a 3.0-inch LCD screen, and Full HD video capture at up to 1080/60p.

Lots of manual controls; Powerful 40x zoom lens; Wide angle view (24mm; Macro focus as close as 1 cm; High image quality overall; Full HD video; Dial eases menu navigation; Fast burst shooting; Attractive digital filters; In bright light; tracking AF is fairly accurate

AF can be unreliable at max; zoom, No RAW mode, Max; shutter speed of 15 seconds (no bulb, Tracking AF had difficulty in shadows, At full zoom, AF can be unreliable, Low light image quality could be better, Seek assist feature is not extremely helpful, LCD is fixed, does not hinge

The Canon PowerShot SX720 HS is an easy proposition to get your head around. It's a PowerShot SX710 HS with a longer lens. The fact that Canon has put all its efforts into that one feature tells you all you need to know – this is a pocket super-zoom for people who really want that extra reach.

Long story short, if you need a ton of zoom in a small package the older Canon PowerShot SX710 HS , Nikon Coolpix S9900 , and Panasonic Lumix ZS60 are all better values than the SX720 HS.

The Canon Powershot SX720 HS updates the SX710 HS , and updates the lens to a 40x optical zoom lens, compared to the 30x optical zoom lens on the previous model. The SX720 is available for around ￡290 in black, or red.

40x optical zoom lens; Subject tracking; Good rubber grip (front and back; NFC and Wi-Fi connectivity; Upto 8fps continuous shooting; Good colour reproduction

Lacks panoramic shooting mode; Some alternatives shoot raw; Does not feature touch-screen

Canon's latest superzoom travel compact camera, the Canon PowerShot SX720 HS, features a 40x optical zoom lens, which is an equivalent of 24-960mm in 35mm terms. A digital zoom (called Zoom Plus) of 80x is also available. A further digital zoom of 120x can also be used.