More camera I do not need

I had given the camera for Christmas my friend, as the successor of their Fuji S100FS, which already has a dolles zoom and super picture quality, however, is quite heavy and bulky.
I must say that I have hit the jackpot: The Canon PowerShot is pleasantly light and compact, foolproof to use, and it provides photographic opportunities of which we could only dream of. Fantastic macro shots of flowers and insects that sit in principle directly in front of the lens, great telephoto shots in super quality of motives which would have been unerrreichbar the S100FS. In good light easily manage all pictures. Even in very low light you get more documentary - though not artistic - usable images out of the stabilizer works great.

With certain restrictions, you have to stop living if one wants to lug around any DSLR lens with appropriate fleet itself. For this, the camera allows a high level of spontaneity and responsiveness. And it also has quite a bit of manual or semi-manual controls and special functions, so that a certain experiment is given enough space.

I take pictures since soon 30 years, many years with analog SLR, but I am more of a snapshot photographer as an artist, which takes 15-30 minutes for an image, even if not completely untalented. Details such as fringing or distortion just drop me not negative if the subject is in focus and displayed in crisp colors. From this perspective, this camera is for me the ultimate present: You will not technically determined to DSLRs zoom - but: "?! Who cares I love it"