The Kodak Easyshare P712 has been reviewed by PhotographyBLOG who give it brownie points for its versatile focal range of 36-432mm, its effective image stabilization mode, its manual settings and its video shooting options. However the camera is not very responsive and suffers from poor continuous shooting mode and slow start-up time. Image noise form 400 ISO onwards is noticeable too.

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.

In the end the review concludes by saying"So overall, the Kodak Easyshare P712 is a fairly easy-to-use, feature-rich camera with that 12x zoom lens as its main attraction. The slow responsiveness and noise issue are by no means show-stoppers, but they do stop us from recommending this camera more strongly. The Panasonic DMC-FZ7 is a very similar camera with the advantage of being quicker to use, although it does only offer JPEG mode and suffers from the same problem of noisy images. At £350 / $500, the Kodak P712 is also more expensive than the Panasonic, although actual street prices seem to be significantly lower.'