Pros
• Love the large zoom
• Quality pictures
• Many different shooting modes
• Can buy add on lenses/filters so you can do more with the camera (this improves the macro greatly)
• In between a slr and point and shoot
• Battery holds a very long charge
• Comes with a lens hood
• LCD has options for high angle (when you need to hold the camera high above your head to get the shot) and bright days (with other cameras it has been hard to see the lcd on these bright days)
• Has option for 3:2 aspect ratio (will print the full photo on 4x6 paper)
• Flash is off unless you turn it on
• Power save – you can set this and all it takes is for you to push the shutter and the camera is back on
• Bigger so it holds more like a slr
• Anti-shake
• Controls easy to use once you figure them out (push in on the joystick to control a lot of things)
• Lots of color modes to shoot in (BW, color, sepia, cool or warm)
• You have to set it to do so, but it focuses way fast
• Can choose your ISO setting
• You can set the too-bright-flash for a lower setting
Cons
• Can’t get too close with macro mode
• No manual focus ring, hard to use joystick to focus
• Fuzzy low light pictures
• Very bright flash
• Simple mode is too simple
• Have to figure out controls
I bought this camera before leaving for Italy when my previous camera broke while in another country. I love this thing. It now goes everywhere with me. Check out my photos on flickr to see what it can do –
www.flickr.com/photos/beckywithasmile