Imaging-Resource reviewed the Kodak EasyShare P712 recently and gives it brownie points for long image-stabilized 12x zoom lens, its performance, and its manual exposure mode and a hot shoe for external flash units. What they didn’t like was its tendency to over-expose.

The P712 is a 7.1 mega pixel camera and is perfect for those who don’t want just another point and shoot or a complicated DSLR. In fact Kodak once said that this camera was designed for "second- and third-time digital camera buyers." The camera and its black housing looks cool and measures just around 4.3 by 3.3 by 2.8 inches with its lens fully retracted. The camera has some impressive specs on it like 12X optical, 36mm-to-432mm, f/2.8-to-f/3.7 zoom lens, 2.5-inch, 115,000-pixel LCD screen, and a 237,000-pixel electronic viewfinder. It is able to capture images in RAW and TIFF and metering options include multipattern, center-weighted, spot, and selectable zone.

They write in the end "No camera's perfect, but the Kodak EasyShare P712 offers a compelling set of features and capabilities at an affordable price, making it a camera well worth a second look."