Impressive versatility Low Battery

~~~ Processing and operation ~~~
The ~~ ~~ processing the camera a quality image, especially the lens makes a good impression and also acts fully extended yet stable. The buttons on the camera have been ergonomically arranged, at least with my smallish hands I come anywhere ran, but only if I want to change something and not accidentally. In addition to the mode dial to select the FN key is the most important thing, about which one gets all the settings in the current mode, such as aperture, exposure, focus, etc. clearly displayed and can change in a few steps.
Absolutely I welcome the speed ~~ ~~ the camera, turn on and losfotografieren, as usual of an SLR. Snapshots are therefore no problem.
Contrary to other opinions here already read, I find it very pleasant that the ~~ ~~ lightning is only active when one extends it manually before. "I have always been disturbed in such a compact camera when the flash unintentionally losblitzt and thus the whole scene is destroyed.
The ~~ ~~ battery is somewhat unpredictable, it shows in a day even at full power, I can the camera suddenly the next day not even turn on because the battery is all. There are now but a software update for this camera to correct this problem. I will report!
With 3-inch display is the ~~ ~~ large enough to recognize something when photographing, nevertheless I would personally prefer a real viewfinder (but the camera would also no longer as compact ...). The contrasts are very good, excellent sharpness and especially you can look good on it from all angles. Even in direct sunlight can recognize something else!

~~~ Image quality ~~~
The image quality is surprisingly good, especially daylight shots are exposed balanced already in automatic mode. The light intensity is, at least for smaller focal length rather remarkable when the zoom is fully leaves the after a bit, but is still ok. The contrast is good and the colors are realistic. Naturally, is at 16 MP on a small sensor that ~~ ~~ noise performance spotty. The ~~ ~~ sharpness is rather mediocre, everything seems a bit mushy. But maybe I'm a little too spoiled as SLR users?
For beginners the Smart mode is certainly very suitable, just switch the camera sets depending on the subject and lighting conditions the appropriate settings. That works really well, the pictures are pretty neat.
Those who want something more, can enjoy themselves to the easily accessible settings, there is nothing that could not hire me, except one: the camera stores images, unfortunately, only in jpg format, not in ~~ ~~ RAW. I find that very unfortunate, as a really good image editing operations are kept, as opposed to RAW to JPG go for many image information is lost.

~~~ Other frills ~~~
The camera has ~~ ~~ WiFi, so you can upload photos directly to your own PC or even by Facebook. I am but honestly too much fumbling, wired it is much easier and quicker. ~~ ~~ A GPS sensor, the camera also (I suspect the WiFi or is responsible for the battery weakness!) I have used, but the not yet.
Of course you can not only take pictures, but also record HD videos ~~ ~~, the sensor is fixed here, with a correspondingly fast memory card succeed the videos smoothly and in great quality. But here I'm missing something, the experience to compare with other cameras.
Otherwise, there are still tens ~~ ~~ editing modes, so you can take pictures, like a watercolor or pencil drawing look the same. One sees even earlier on the display, as the picture will look in the end. For me, the more gimmick and not really necessary function. A nice gimmick is the panorama function, even if the image resolution is unfortunately quite small - for panoramic poster is no longer the.

~~~ ~~~ Accessories
Manual: The camera there is a Quick Start Guide, which shows how to insert the battery, the camera starts and makes the settings for language and so on. Unfortunately, this is very little. The comprehensive manual about 180 pages, there is only on CD, but at least it is so in PDF format fortmatiert that it can be printed without any problems. This comprehensive manual I find - as someone who photographed a few years with an SLR - quite good, as there are in addition to the pure action descriptions along with some background information (eg, explains what is a focal length).
CD: the CD you will find the manual with a very rudimentary image editing software that is most suitable to get the images as fast as possible to the computer (which works great and largely automatically). The editing functions such as lightening, etc. are poor because there is the Internet free programs that can substantially more.
Also included is a charging cable. Unfortunately there is no battery charger, so that not only a spare battery, but even this charging station must be purchased separately.

~~~ The camera is thus suitable for all those who
- Wish for good photos do not do much: Select and smart snap feature
- Want to get more out of your photos and have fun, to dig based on more than 180 pages handbook through menus
Attach great importance to a high zoom factor -
- Creative Photos want without having to deal with image processing: the creative options offer there really a lot
- Importance to a good video quality Laying: the HD Videos are already great
Mainly photographing outdoors in bright light -: because I think the camera has the greatest potential and landscape pictures or make with the Panorama function fun

~~~ Less useful is the camera for those who
- Mainly take pictures in low light conditions. Since the photos are quickly noisy and muddy.
- Like to edit your photos using an expensive image editing software on. Unfortunately, the camera records only in jpg, not in RAW, because the processing does not lossless.

~~~ Conclusion ~~~
A great model that can be incredibly much and makes appealing photos. We deduct from me for the poor battery life and the lack of RAW storage. Should the mentioned firmware upgrade that still fixed, there are 5 star!