If that is not enough (and therefore to buy even a SLR), the place despite the low price actually all possibilities to influence his shots - laudable represented intuitive and tidy and well explained in menus and on the screen. It takes basically not even the brief manual to find your way around.
Of course, all standard options such as time and shutter priority, manual mode, long exposure, self-timer, continuous shooting, etc. available.
Nice is also the "Creative Style", where on topics such as "portrait" or "landscape" suggested values such as contrast or saturation simply by pressing a button up or down can be adjusted itself.
At first I hesitated with this camera because it has no LifeView. I thought this could be me particularly useful for adjusting the depth of field. I like to play with blurs, because they give much more dynamic and deep for my taste pictures because me a display with LifeView seemed sensible. But since you can not see displays often eh properly in bright light and can be seen well in the viewfinder, which areas of the image are sharp and which are not, seemed to me the LifeView dispensable. The assumption has been confirmed.
Autofocus has all essential settings: silent or moving objects; focus centrally or an area or any individual AF points - what more could you want?
The camera takes pictures in JPG or RAW format, on request both. A likewise intuitive software is included for editing of RAW on the PC, can be done manually with the white balance, contrast, dynamic range optimization, color and so on.
With 10 megapixels to get far enough. In the Playstation enlarged sections make on my big LCD TV a very nice, mostly noise-free or arms impression. Only at high magnifications particularly poor light parts of the image, the results must be a few feathers.
Of course, no memory card is (also Memory Stick is possible). Who makes only jpgs, comes pretty far with a 2GB card - who wants to take pictures in addition or RAWs, should prefer to buy more storage. For standard jpgs you get on a 2 GB card around 640 images, in "fine" there are 480. But only 123 RAWs. If you both stores simultaneously, you get about 100 photos to 2GB.
The only drawback: The variously criticized lack of ergonomics. In fact, the camera does not keep very well in hand.
In a large electronics store I got the listed Amazon package with 2 lenses, however, much cheaper.
