The canon a710IS is a wonderful digital point and shoot camera. It has a lot of built in modes. There is also a manual mode which gives you complete control over shutter speed, focus, aperture and exposure time. There are also special scene modes--color accent, underwater, aquarium, night scene, foliage, fireworks. The camera also takes good quality videos. The photos are very very very                     goood.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        ...