I purchased this camera to replace an old bridge a little overwhelmed. I do not regret that choice, great for use boilerplate if one does not want "the hassle" of an SLR but we still want some grip and pretty pictures. The highlights for me: - Colors rather faithful - A fine general picture - Numerous options to make life easier for the user and allow him to have fun, while getting automatically cool shots with or without special effects - A ring for zooming and / or manual focus - Excellent zoom very powerful! - A nice grip, the camera does not "knock" And some negatives: -On Some images, the definition is not terrible. Pixels are sometimes grouped into "color spots" and this is not very pretty (20.4 mpix have no great interest in this case!) - Big flaw: sometimes the picture is distorted! This is due to the wide angle lens according to what I read. There is a distortion called "pincushion", ie the sides and corners of the picture are as stretched. As a result, when a person is close to the corner, his head is visibly extended outward ... it is not always obvious but some shots it shows good! What a shame to have to edit the photos concerned with the concern that I have not seen mentioned in any criticism of the device! - Has already been said, but the camera is not very fast (do not want to take several pictures after emergency) - Viewfinder has a rather médiocre..I picture but it's still useful, for example in the sun - Finally, the absence of external charger, make purchase separately. This is not very serious but it's important to know! In conclusion, I really appreciate my new companion but this image distortion can be really annoying. But once you know you only have to pay more attention to the border :)