The opinions, especially when "people's voice" (the reviews), but go very far apart, even called the test reports. Journals sometimes differ from each other badly.
About two things beforehand everyone should be aware:
For what purpose I need the camera?
What quality standards do I have?
The main selling point for me was the size and speed !!
Both are absolutely here added, fits in any shirt pocket and the rapid speed is easily sufficient to gambling, herumtobende children (outdoor) at any time to nab.
(If a reviewer this camera poorly rated because it is too small, I can not quite understand !!)
In assessing the quality setting, read again and again oddities.
The negative reviews on the basis of a comparison with a DSLR you can safely forget.
I had only used here to compare with my compact cameras, and only makes sense in my opinion.
Outdoors, ie under good lighting conditions there is no reason to complain about (well, probably in almost all cameras of the case)
However, anyone who believes indoors to get stunning pictures in dim light, will probably be disappointed.
Such a small camera with a small sensor and lichtschwachem lens comes here necessarily very quickly reach their limits.
Of course, such a small camera has little room for buttons and switches, and if, they are quite small, but that should first be clear. Since there was no place for a mode dial, Sony here uses the dial on the back of it. A small rotation and displays the screen for different modes to choose from, I personally find cleverly solved.
Although this is my first Sony, I have not missed a guide, it's all sebsterklärend.
Compared to my Nikon P310 and Olympus XZ-1 I come to the following conclusion (for me):
-Excellent (Snapshot) camera, always there, fast. (Here, the XZ-1 is just too slow and almost a bit too large)
-In Low light, of course, weaker than both aforementioned cameras.
-When The sharpness it comes nowhere near to the XZ-1 zoom, especially in telephoto fall Unschäfebereiche on the margin.
Therefore, I can only recommend to buy, try and keep in port or return. Anyone who is not sure about the size, just try the next big electric market.
For me, absolutely a great camera for snapshots and vacation in paper prints 13x18 good image quality.
As with all other reviewers also: This is my personal opinion and may be left uncommented here, thank you !!!!