With a 52-times optical zoom, you can pick up many objects very close. What would be great if it were not these two weaknesses of the device. Firstly, does the image in high zoom level very wobble, even if one is convinced to keep his hand completely still. To snap photos is almost impossible because you have to bend the hand a bit to get to the button. In addition, the trip time is felt even one second. Stark blurred pictures are thus inevitable.
The second weakness is that you can not manually adjust the focal length. So you are on auto-focus-points dependent. And this failed in high zoom levels and, when shooting flat objects like.
I shot the camcorder for under 100 in a bid Action Amazon. Therefore, I find it quite well. But the full price of just under 200, he is not worth it, especially if you already own a good camera.