For clippers this camera is thrown pearls before swine. As the developers of Panasonic have given a lot of effort to create a camera with which one can shoot creatively. However, you should already have genuine interest to go beyond the usual holiday addition. In this regard, I recommend the book "Super Zoom Photo School" of Frank Späth. But by their wealth of technical possibilities, this camera is too good for beginners, which work only with the automatic. Some experience and photographic knowledge you should order this camera to meet already bring. To the guy but it will reward you with a lot of fun on the successful photo. But should be noted is that the one who would rather like photos retouched 100.- more for Lumix FZ should spend 150. Because the FZ 48 has no RAW format and the sensor is a bit better. But at 499.- for the FZ 150 you can even think about whether you can not ascend directly into the DSLR League?