The viewfinder is top and 2 batteries of 2500 mAh really hold at least 400 images, although some fill-flash are.
The seeker and the long battery life (with AAs !!) were the key purchasing criteria for me.
The viewfinder shows almost exactly the actual image to display zooms with, he shows too little, but is easy to compensate once you have tested it.
Picture quality is up to 5x opt. Zoom good, especially if you knippst not only with automatic, but the right program selected, as often as possible, the ISO manually sets down, fill used ... what with such a Knippse halt to "tricks" is possible.
The einzigst really bad thing is the video quality. Very noisy, just not back !!
The excitement because of the lack of image stabilization, I find hysterical. Just use the viewfinder, the camera is stabilized on the same head. It wobbles a lot more when shooting "freehand" over the display. Image stabilizer gabs earlier in the analog time does not - because I had no verwckelten images!
For me wars a good buy!