Price and performance are now in the camera. Surely this is a good product for beginners and not too ambitious amateur photographers. Operation is simple and the beginner has increasingly rewarding. To achieve good results, you should carry out extensive tests at the beginning and settings (for example, contrast, saturation). Then very ordinary images up to ISO 400 are possible. The HD videos are great, of course, also require considerable memory (about 200MB per minute). The flash gives very good results. With regard to the often-noted autofocus weakness I can only say that performs well within a normal range of the telephoto autofocus. The power consumption with good accus is normal, compared to most other cameras. I rate the solution with AA accus be optimal, compared to the expensive Spezialaccus other models. Overall, a camera with lots of nice gimmicks that makes a lot of fun for those who average amateur photographer is (leisure, vacation, sports, family) and would like a little more than just pulling the trigger. In my view, highly recommended with a star deduction for the common problems Zoom / sound / video, which is rather important for me. Long videos require eh other equipment.