I bought this camera for entry into more advanced photography. To experiment with shutter speeds etc. is more than enough! The picture quality is even at full zoom super, unless you have just no steady hand but that's just at pretty much every camera so (I think at least;)). I have a few reviews on the web read that claim, the picture quality is bad, rauschig, pixelated, blurry ... the first few pictures were with me exactly, but when you first understood to mean what ISO settings and shutter speeds etc. , you get even in manual mode out super loose (non-super star photographer, but Angagierter amateur Super!) sharp images that are not just noisy etc.. The only slight drawback in my opinion is the panorama mode (for real professionals probably rather unimportant). Here you can unfortunately only make three pictures from right to left and left to right. Beginning in the middle or from the bottom up would have been nice but you can not have everything. All in all I am glad to have taken this camera, just right for me: not too expensive and great pictures if you bring a little patience the possibilities of settings and how to apply them to understand. Sample images I still upload.