bought the camera last year in a special promotion at the Sony Store in Berlin for only 200 .. was a spontaneous purchase .. I thought that's Sony, as you can not really go wrong ... far from it !! At first glance, the camera works great ... great scene modes that work really well .. a convincing for me use .. great zoom, really first-class video .. everything chic ... BUT: The picture quality is just bad. At first glance many pictures seem ok, nice colors, etc. But if you zoom just a little bit or the whole on your TV or big screen look, you have a really ugly like watercolor / slushy effect ... some colored areas just run together ... hair is a porridge etc .. the effect is especially bad in low light photos and more at high zoom, but in principle it is always there, even in good daylight ... Even compared with my six year old Samsung something cheap camera, the photos are crap ... that's kind of a bug in the noise reduction or other element of the electronic image processing. Unfortunately, even with the latest firmware no improvement and another is unlikely to come ... You can minimize the effect small when working with manual settings and maximum ISO 100 ... but that's probably not the whole point, right? I sell the camera now ..'ve brought what better ... too bad ... other Sony Sony are surely very loud Testberichten..aber not ours .. Do not believe for great pictures ... knackscharf all reports and all the nonsense .. .the have either ordered or simply Reviews from unsuspecting. I do not really have very high Ansprüche..habe not even wanted a DSLR .. just a good Compact ... and I also do not zoom zigfach purely to see the watercolor effect .. on many pictures where he is very pronounced reached minimal zooming if you want to make an enlarged ... Lest sometimes this very insightful article so you can see that I do not just spider, just google because Amazon not linked: [...]