Wide and 5x opt.Zoom make in this price range a lot of her .... To "always have" an everyday use Digi-camera, which is easy to use and makes good photos. But what the advertising and operating instructions silent: if the zoom function is used during video recording, suspends recording for this moment - very annoying when watching the videos! Who wants to just take pictures, is in my opinion happy with the model - who wants to take more videos with altered Zoom, you should look for something else (of course more expensive)!