Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great camera, priced right, compact, excellent picture quality

Used on my cruise, it takes great pictures and the size is perfect.

This is a very good camera. Very easy to use and takes very good pictures.

This camera is easy to use and I love how you can flip the screen for selfies.

I bought this camera for my husband's birthday in September. He loves it. I bought this same camera in June 2019 and have really liked it. The easy point-and shoot provides nice photos. It's great to have a zoom and get good up close photos of wildlife from a long distance. People have been amazed at the photos. I would buy again.

I recommend this camera to anyone it has very great quality and easy to use.

Takes great pictures, wonderful zoom lens. Compact easy to carry with you.

An amazing camera! The picture quality is beautiful and it’s super user friendly. For the price, I’m extremely happy with it.

THIS CAMERA TAKES AMAZING PICTURES , im obsessed with it, the minute i saw it went back in stock I HAD TOO. I definitely recommend purchasing !!

My SLR is big and heavy, This camera is a good size and not too heavy.

This is a very basic, though powerful, camera! We had a previous version about 10 years ago that accumulated sand in it outside the US. This was a gift for my husband, and he is quite happy with it. We didn't want a big, professional type camera, and the cameras on our smart phones aren't good enough quality.

I bought this tiny camera as a backup. I use it wherever I can't bring my Canon DSLR. Initial setup is simple and the setup menu easy to navigate. It has a fantastic zoom and the pictures and video are awesome. It has Wifi and can be connected to my iPhone instantly. Overall great camera.

Light weight and great camera. This will be great to bring on vacation!

Firstly...yes if you zoom in low light.. its grainy. But in a well lit room and outdoors the picture quality are amazing and crisp. In low light it takes good pics up close with the flash. 40 zoom exceeded my expectations. Finally a pocket zoom camera that takes great pics. The colors in the picture are amazing.

Lightweight, great zoom, easy instructions at an affordable price.

bought this camera at best buy a couple of months ago. worked well until a couple of days ago, then the lens got stuck and did not retract - lens error 60. ok, premature end to scenic picture taking. back home, computer search, known problem, workaround. tried the workaround 15-20 times, no avail, let camera sit, try workaround again a few times, and.... drum roll..., miraculously one random try actually works. next day, more picture taking, and, ... drum roll, camera craps out again. lens stuck in zoomed position, lens error 60 strikes again. back to trying workaround, trying, trying, giving up, trying, trying, over the course of three hours while hiking in a scenic spot on the sierra eastside (california). hike is almost over and, voila, a random workaround try actually works. today, the third consecutive day in the camera stuck lens saga. climbing at owens river gorge. taking pictures of surroundings on the hike to lower gorge, and, once again, you probably guessed it - LENS ERR 60 - strikes again! back to workaround, and trying, trying, trying,... to no avail (see iphone pic of canon 740 on hike back out). back home, in depth scouring of internet and 'success' in finding firmware updates. update 1.0.1 fixes the dreaded lens err 60, but wait a second, i'm already running 1.0.1!!! ok, let's update to 1.0.2, the latest firmware version. successful update, but LENS ERR 60 persists.... by now i've literally spent hours trying to fix this problem and lost a lot of great picture opportunities in the process. to be honest, i expect more from a $400 product specifically and canon in general. this camera sucks!

I’ve always been a fan of the canon powershot. I think one of my biggest features that I look for are not only the clarity of picture, but the optical zoom. Definitely one of the best optical zoom distances. Take a lot of pictures at work for the various performing groups that travel. Make it easy to take a nice picture without having to take my DSLR with me.

I needed a small camera to take on vacation. My Cannon 7D was too large to travel with on planes and busses. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the SX 740 HS had many of the same settings I was used to. It takes very good close up and telephoto pictures. If you are looking for a small easy to use camera, I would recommend looking at this one.

Love this camera it is very easy to use and takes great videos.

Love this camera. Light and easy to carry, great zoom