With all of the hype a while back about the Kodak V705 and its wide angle and dual lens, I hopped on the train and bought one.  It was a great- easy to use camera as many of us know.  But, after about 6 months, the main board crapped out on it.  It started taking fuzzy pictures. I couldn't seem to get it in focus, especially when the lighting was iffy.

It was fixed under warranty, but a few months ago it started acting up again....not under warranty anymore of course.  So I started searching around to find a camera with a comparable wide angle.  I was looking at the Nikon D40, but it was pretty expensive AND I was seriously intimidated by it.  The whole having to get special lenses and flashes with it...geez.  Did I really have time to learn all of it? 

So one day on Facebook I was having a conversation about cameras and someone mentioned Canon.  I had not found one yet that could even compare to the V705 but I took another look around and ran across the Canon Powershot SX10 IS. 

It appeared through the description to have a similar wide angle, but what I loved!?  Was the fact that it is both point and shoot and manual.  It's sort of a beginner SLR.  I could buy it, use it right away and when I had time to learn the manual functions, I could. Sweet!

Better yet, It was over $200 cheaper than the Nikon when you include the additional lens that I would have needed.  So I bought it.

The first pictures I took with it were at dusk and after dark because I have never had a decent picture at night.  I met up with a client on The Waterway in the evening for dinner, and took some pictures before and after.  Here are a couple of them:

The pictures of the fountains were taken from atleast 300 yards away from on top of the bridge that you see in the 3rd picture.  The zoom on this thing is Unbelievable!  Oh, and I did not use a tripod on ANY of these.

After that I had a couple of people wanting to know about the camera, and yesterday someone on Twitter wanted to know if it was a wide angle.  I thought today would be a great day to test it out since I was headed over to a listing to take some photos.  So, how does it rank against V705 with the wide angle?

If you take in to consideration that the one with the V705 was taken a little more to the left, they look to be about the same.  The Canon actually has less of a glare which I like.

So far the Canon SX10 IS has been awesome!  I love it.!  It is bigger and can't fit in to a pocket but it is not huge.  The quality of the pictures has been amazing.  I'm still on the same AA Batteries from when I bought it about a month ago.  I really can't wait to learn more about it!  Plus, I'll take the FREE Photoshop class on XTrain.  :0)

If you are needing a new Real Estate Camera, you may want to check this one out.  I highly recommend it if you are wanting to go from Point N Shoot to Digital SLR.  Oooh. I forgot to mention.  It's says its supposed to take HD Quality Video, but I haven't tried it out yet.