Lol. I've been using them for perhaps six months. I haven't had any problems as of yet but now that you've let the genie out of the bottle by saying that they're not recommended for the A710IS (I must have missed that), I'm expecting it... :-) In my case, the camera is a remanufactured one which didn't cost full price so the risk is acceptable. I'll be replacing it sometime in the near future with the A720IS anyway.

Alan