I have the camera now about 1 month and am very satisfied. The black / silver finish looks good. Of course I have not been able to try out all the features and I'm not a professional. Toll I think the flash mode that is very easy to handle - you will not flash, then just when turning on your finger on it and the flash does not pop up. Of course you can also manually either close or open it with the camera turned. Especially I find a better solution than this fumbling in the menu to turn off the flash. The self-timer by Smile works fine. I can not say - read as in other reviews - the colors of the pictures are not good. For me the transferred to the PC photos look very natural.
With the 14-fold zoom function I have at night received the full moon (with flash and without tripod) and have received a great picture, on which one can almost recognize "the man in the moon". But however it happened once that the camera needs some time to make sharp again when zooming.
The macro function can be always one good use to get pictures of flowers, plants, or even sitting quietly animals (spiders, caterpillars, etc.) in good recording quality.
The camera is in my relatively small hands well, is in weight is not uncomfortable and can also easily with just one hand. The battery keeps its promises, in the endurance test I need to recharge after about 200 photos. Since I had a lie 4GB Micro SD card with adapter Transcend in the closet unused, I have this plugged into the camera. It works without any problems.
As the only major shortcoming and I feel that the user (consisting of 180 pages) is available as a PDF file on the CD. The beliegende Quick Start Guide of approximately 34 pages excludes nearly all possibilities - and who has already while photographing his PC case? Just do not look like pros times in the manual, because the camera but really is characterized by many features that you do not so fast in my memory. I printed out my instructions (according to the size of the accompanying Quick Start Guide) and all stapled together, so I can learn the functions even without a PC.
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